Category: Consciousness

The Ecology of Personal Growth

The idea of ecol­o­gy is that we are part of a con­stant­ly inter­con­nect­ed liv­ing sys­tem. As indi­vid­u­als, we evolve and trans­form togeth­er. Yet we do com­mon­ly believe in our iso­la­tion, in lives unique­ly sep­a­rate from all oth­ers. We have our own thoughts and feel­ings, our own iden­ti­ties — or at least we think and feel… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Ecol­o­gy of Per­son­al Growth

History of the Heart

Recent­ly, Louise Alt­man encour­aged me to write about the notion that “we know what we were by what is show­ing up today,” a throw-away line I left in a com­ment to one of her beau­ti­ful posts on The Inten­tion­al Work­place blog. Her inspir­ing arti­cle, about liv­ing with per­ma­nent uncer­tain­ty, evokes the dilem­mas we col­lec­tive­ly and… Con­tin­ue read­ing His­to­ry of the Heart

The Problem is Owning the Problem

A friend and col­league once artic­u­lat­ed to me her three biggest con­sid­er­a­tions in decid­ing whether or not some­one should be ter­mi­nat­ed. • First, did the per­son receive ade­quate feed­back? • Sec­ond, did the per­son tru­ly own the feed­back and take respon­si­bil­i­ty for the prob­lem? • Third, did behav­ior change actu­al­ly occur?  In effect, my friend said,… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Prob­lem is Own­ing the Problem