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Inner Worlds, Outer Actions

At the second conversation with a new client, she said to me, “I really got the point of what you said in our first session. It was kind of, ‘Stop whining and get back to work.’” This was way off. I’d said no such thing. This was clearly the inner world of the client acting […]

August 4, 2020 – 2:04 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Choices, Conflict, Consciousness, Healing, Listening, Self-Knowledge | Tagged delusions, emotional reactions, fairy tales, inner world, life scripts, observer self, scripts | Comments (0)

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)

Leadership and Beauty

A recent New York Times article, “How Beauty is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution,” caught my eye and ear. Ferris Jabr’s lucid prose verges at the end of the article to poetry and is framed throughout with exquisite images of bird feathers by Kenji Aoki. The content of the article is about evolutionary biology and scientific […]

May 7, 2019 – 1:37 pm | By Dan Oestreich | Posted in Listening, Self-Knowledge, Trust | Comments (0)

The Tender Spot

I am designing a new leadership workshop and recently I asked a friend and colleague for some feedback about the design. As we reviewed the materials and exercises, he stopped at one point and said, “I think you are going too fast here. What you are asking people to share about themselves in this part […]