Category: Consciousness

Kingdom of Weeds

A part of me always wants to turn back to the most orig­i­nal parts of myself, the parts that exist­ed before I acquired too much infor­ma­tion, ideas, ideals, before too many tri­umphs and hurts. It is the part I’ve felt time and again to be like a pri­mal for­est or undis­cov­ered mead­ow, like look­ing over… Con­tin­ue read­ing King­dom of Weeds

Leadership and Shame

Shame is that ter­ri­ble emo­tion that iso­lates us in a par­tic­u­lar­ly nasty way. To expe­ri­ence shame is to be con­demned and, in part at least, it is we who are doing the con­demn­ing. In the end the expe­ri­ence just leaves us to hurt. Brené Brown, the writer, speak­er and researcher cur­rent­ly most asso­ci­at­ed with the… Con­tin­ue read­ing Lead­er­ship and Shame

Song of Childhood

We all have things that trig­ger mem­o­ries of child­hood. One of mine is the song of the Swain­son’s Thrush. It reminds me of the woods behind the house where I grew up, and espe­cial­ly of sum­mer evenings when the cool air filled with the scents of the for­est drift­ed out across our back­yard. High up,… Con­tin­ue read­ing Song of Childhood

Can You Forget Yourself?

Can you for­get your­self, even for a moment? As a leader, some­one respon­si­ble for accom­plish­ing some larg­er pur­pose, do you know how?  So many aspects of lead­er­ship seem to depend on it — true lis­ten­ing, for exam­ple, so that you can gen­uine­ly empathize, hear­ing with open­ness rather than closed expec­ta­tions of what anoth­er will say. Or… Con­tin­ue read­ing Can You For­get Yourself?