Category Archives: Self-Knowledge

A Little Piece on Mind Control

What do you allow yourself to think about? What do you keep from awareness? As your consciousness moves over an array of possible subjects and options, accepting some and denying others, are you noticing its familiar habits? This is an experience of your own mind as both controller and controlled, an experience of how you […]

September 5, 2018 – 10:51 am | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Conflict, Consciousness, Journey of Unlearning, Reflections and Poems, Self-Knowledge | Comments (0)

The Greater Journey

If leadership is about anything, it’s about overcoming obstacles, both external and internal. Of the two, the internal ones are often tougher because they require self-knowledge and initiative: a strenuous demand for personal growth and change. The irony is that we can know a great deal about these internal challenges, such as lack of confidence, […]

August 14, 2018 – 3:09 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Choices, Journey of Unlearning, Self-Knowledge, Transformation | Comments (4)

Do You Know Who You Are?

Take your basic interpersonal conflict as an example. The issue is the way she treats me or he treats me. Why doesn’t he or she treat me better? On the surface, it’s not at all about what I might do differently, but what the other person ought to be doing or not doing. This is […]

July 25, 2018 – 1:07 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Choices, Grief, Listening, Self-Knowledge, Truth, Wounds | Comments (0)

The Mean Turn

There are times when I might unknowingly frighten or intimidate another person. And there are times when another person might also unknowingly frighten or intimidate me. This awareness causes me to think about human disconnections, how they arise and how we must address them, for all too often, unaddressed, they move us backwards towards becoming […]

May 9, 2018 – 3:54 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Consciousness, Reflective Leadership, Self-Knowledge | Comments (2)