Category Archives: Love

Soul-Making

Soul can be a difficult word when it is associated with a workplace. Work and business are the domain of measurement and management, of productivity, logic, structure, systems, strategies and alignments. Often these are things that have little obvious connection to the deeper stories of the people within the systems. Those hidden stories may contain […]

October 12, 2014 – 2:14 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Love, Organizational Culture, Shadow | Comments (5)

An Old, Universal Idea

Getting out of our own way is the biggest challenge. Whether we struggle with hubris or shame (or some of each), the challenge is waking up to what transcends our personal beliefs and mindsets, our collective conditioning, our inner and outer cultures that like mist on a window obscure our view of what’s real. Putting […]

March 30, 2014 – 7:22 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Love, Wounds | Comments (9)

On Self-Confrontation

One could almost say the heart of reflective leadership is the capacity for self-confrontation. It is not really a skill. It is more a “psychological move,” a mental and emotional re-positioning to look very honestly at oneself and one’s situation. Without it, we have no way to accurately judge or respond to situations, especially when […]

December 6, 2013 – 4:51 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Love, Reflective Leadership, Truth | Comments (16)

What do I want?

What do I want? That’s almost as powerful a question as “Who am I?” For when we don’t express what we want in a true and heart-felt way — first and foremost to ourselves — we lose a vital part of our joy in being exactly who we are. Ironically, in a society that over-values […]

July 31, 2012 – 12:18 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Love, Photographs, Shadow | Comments (4)