Category Archives: Grief

America’s Blind Spot

As a coach and consultant, the two most common problems I deal with are leadership blind spots and the challenge of standing up in one’s work and being real. Of course, there are many other issues, but these are the biggest vectors in my practice. Since George Floyd was murdered, America as a society once […]

June 5, 2020 – 12:59 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Changing the World, Consciousness, Grief, Listening, Self-Knowledge, Wounds | Comments (0)

The Context

Out of nature comes a sense of ultimate context. Writer Gary Ferguson asks: “…who wouldn’t feel a twitch of bewilderment to think that 99.99999 percent of our body is comprised of the empty space that exists between the electrons, neutrons, and protons — each one of those an element of the atoms that give us […]

November 4, 2019 – 1:23 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Consciousness, Grief | Comments (0)

On Transience

Outside my office window the wind comes up in a tree that yesterday had been a single big red bonfire. Now, half the branches are bare, the leaves tossed around and away like bright embers. I’ve missed the photograph I had wanted to take of the full red tree. Meanwhile the lake across the street […]

October 17, 2019 – 12:50 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Grief | Comments (2)

The Darkness Is Not Yet Complete

I am disappointed in our country. Focused on winning, it is in fact filled with the defeat of our democracy. I admit, because it often just seems so hopeless attempting to cross the divide, I find myself resisting political arguments and exchanges. George Lakoff’s description of the conservative moral hierarchy is enough of an explanation […]

October 16, 2018 – 12:55 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Changing the World, Grief, Love, Power, Transformation | Comments (2)