Category: Consciousness

On Personal Power

Recent­ly, I announced a two-day work­shop I will facil­i­tate in March, 2012 called, “The Arc: Liv­ing the Full Sto­ry of Your Per­son­al Pow­er.” (If you would like to know more about the work­shop, please down­load the brochure at this link). I am excit­ed by the mod­el I will intro­duce and the for­mat of the event… Con­tin­ue read­ing On Per­son­al Power

The Politics of Professional Despair

Recent­ly I have found myself in con­ver­sa­tions with good peo­ple slip­ping into a kind of pro­fes­sion­al despair. This seemed to be the con­tra­dict­ing under­side of the pub­lic face they need to exhib­it. They have learned to keep silent and pre­tend a cer­tain opti­mism in order to main­tain posi­tion or stature — while pri­vate­ly leak­ing despair… Con­tin­ue read­ing The Pol­i­tics of Pro­fes­sion­al Despair

In the Mountains

My two most pre­ferred intel­li­gences, accord­ing to Howard Gard­ner’s mod­el, are intrap­er­son­al (self-reflec­­tive inner search) and nat­u­ral­is­tic (appre­ci­a­tion and learn­ing from nat­ur­al forms). This means that when I want or need to think in cre­ative ways, I like to look for wis­dom both through my inner expe­ri­ences and in places of out­ward nat­ur­al beau­ty. This… Con­tin­ue read­ing In the Mountains

Contribution to Society

When I was a teenag­er and think­ing about my future my father would tell me, “what is impor­tant in life is mak­ing a con­tri­bu­tion to soci­ety.”  He nev­er defined exact­ly what he meant but he did­n’t have to. His tone called up all those he believed were not mak­ing such a con­tri­bu­tion: the self­ish and… Con­tin­ue read­ing Con­tri­bu­tion to Society