Category: Healing

The Air is There, Waiting

There are two sto­ries that I find myself telling. One, spo­ken by the voice of my fears, tells me that I am alone, mis­un­der­stood, and dif­fer­ent from oth­ers in a way that will always keep me iso­lat­ed and unrec­og­nized. It’s depress­ing. The sec­ond voice “flips” this empha­sis on dif­fer­ence from a lia­bil­i­ty to an asset… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Air is There, Waiting

Anatomy of a Conflict

Despite all the good advice about resolv­ing con­flict, per­haps best exem­pli­fied by Stephen Cov­ey’s famous line, “Seek first to under­stand, then to be under­stood,” peo­ple most­ly don’t. When the emo­tion of con­flict takes over and the high­er func­tion­ing parts of the brain have been hijacked, what we want is to be under­stood, to be seen… Con­tin­ue read­ing Anato­my of a Conflict

No Matter Which Way We Turn Wisdom Will Find Us

Many years ago I worked with a pub­lic agency, improv­ing com­mu­ni­ca­tions with­in one of the depart­ments. I had an in-house depart­men­tal con­tact per­son coor­di­nat­ing some of my activ­i­ties who, like me, was pas­sion­ate about pos­i­tive orga­ni­za­tion­al change. At some point after the com­ple­tion of my work, I learned there had been prob­lems again in the… Con­tin­ue read­ing No Mat­ter Which Way We Turn Wis­dom Will Find Us

A Circular Concept of Leadership

In a com­ment on my last post, Flor Fer­nan­dez Bar­rios talked about med­i­cine wheels: – Native-Amer­i­­cans have the con­cept of the med­i­cine Wheel, the great cir­cle of life based on the car­di­nal direc­tions. Every posi­ition has equal pow­er and unique teach­ings. The essence of life is move­ment and as we move through the wheel we… Con­tin­ue read­ing A Cir­cu­lar Con­cept of Leadership