Category Archives: Self-Knowledge

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)

What Are You Called To?

Perhaps there is only one important leadership question: “What are you called to?” Finish that question anyway you like — what are you called to do, what are you called to be? Either way the word, “called,” implies a certain kind of intuitive depth, a certain way of being. So much of the attention seems […]

March 4, 2018 – 2:28 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Consciousness, Fate and Destiny, Self-Knowledge | Comments (0)

Moving Toward Wholeness

Not long ago my friend, Ed Batista tweeted that he felt inspired by how I had connected leadership to psychological wholeness in a recent post. That was very kind, and it also planted a seed. I’ve written before about what I think wholeness is for leaders, but looking back to that 2011 post, I was […]

June 29, 2017 – 4:14 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Consciousness, Fate and Destiny, Radiance, Self-Knowledge, Shadow, Wounds | Comments (4)

On My Images of Nature

Since I began this weblog in 2004, I have occasionally been asked why I include images of nature with many of my posts. How, for example, do pictures of the sea relate to a post on fairness or ones of a river connect with writing on self-worth? Not every post has photographs of nature, but […]

May 31, 2017 – 1:24 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Blogging, Grief, Photographs, Self-Knowledge | Comments (2)