Category: Wounds

Karen Tse and a Definition of Healing

Hear Dan read this post. Recent­ly, Siona van Dijk sent me a ref­er­ence to the extra­or­di­nary lead­er­ship work of Karen Tse, direc­tor of Inter­na­tion­al Bridges to Jus­tice (IBJ), a human rights orga­ni­za­tion that trains pub­lic defend­ers in Chi­na, Viet­nam and Cam­bo­dia. Karen grew up in LA’s Chi­na­town, went to UCLA and, lat­er, Har­vard Divin­i­ty school,… Con­tin­ue read­ing Karen Tse and a Def­i­n­i­tion of Healing

Washing My Face

Hear Dan read this post. We all want to know where the point of trans­for­ma­tion lies. I would say it is in “no space,” the place we come to after exhaust­ing every­thing we know…and every­thing we are, a point of pure med­i­ta­tion. The cur­rent the­o­ry base, exem­pli­fied by Otto Scharmer’s “The­o­ry U”, sug­gests exact­ly this… Con­tin­ue read­ing Wash­ing My Face

Points of Healing

Hear me read this post. The impor­tant thing to know is what is heal­ing. There is a place in all of us — a dif­fi­cult spot — where some­thing is felt that is lit­er­al­ly unbear­able. It is too sim­ple to say what we feel is pain. It is a kind of pain: anger, embar­rass­ment, despair,… Con­tin­ue read­ing Points of Healing