Category Archives: Grief

The Politics of Contempt

All you have to do these days is read just about any political post — say on Facebook if not some other favorite website –and then go to the comments section: Person A: “Person B, what a liar! You should be forced to prove your accusation. People like you are enemies of the state” Person […]

January 14, 2017 – 12:34 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Changing the World, Conflict, Grief, Power, Shadow, Wounds | Comments (14)

A Journey Through the Underworld

Last night I carried into my sleep the tensions I live with while awake — the same tensions many carry right now. I felt cramped, smothered, yet I couldn’t escape from the place where I found myself. I was part of a slow-moving horror, a crazy darkness. Then gradually, something of life and sanity returned […]

November 22, 2016 – 2:00 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Conflict, Grief, Self-Knowledge | Comments (6)

World Beyond Our World

The other day on NPR I listened to the story of 9/11 survivor, Brian Clark, a now retired executive vice president for Euro Bankers, who had been at work in the South Tower that day fifteen years ago. He is one of the few survivors to get out of the building from above where the […]

September 8, 2016 – 6:11 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Angels, Choices, Grief, Listening, Love | Comments (7)

Leadership Feedback, Leadership Wounds

In one way or another, leaders are always receiving feedback. Sometimes it is from the voiced reactions of people at a meeting they are guiding. Sometimes it is more formal, for example from a staff survey or 360 degree appraisal process. As a consultant and coach, I’ve noticed a fairly common pattern in the process […]

January 4, 2016 – 10:35 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Conflict, Consciousness, Grief, Organizational Culture, Reflective Leadership, Self-Knowledge, Shadow, Wounds | Comments (4)