What is “Wholeness”?

This is a term that is often thrown around to describe a goal of indi­vid­ual growth and devel­op­ment, and so it shows up in well­ness, psy­cho­log­i­cal, and spir­i­tu­al lit­er­a­ture. But what does it mean, real­ly, and how does it apply in terms of readi­ness to lead oth­ers? One way to look at this is that… Con­tin­ue read­ing What is “Whole­ness”?

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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

Moment of Recognition

I have heard that self-esteem in chil­dren is relat­ed to their par­ents “see­ing” them.  That is, a child needs a care-giv­er to see some­thing in him or her that the child does not or can­not yet see. When I said to my lit­tle daugh­ter many years ago, “what a beau­ti­ful pic­ture of a horse, you are… Con­tin­ue read­ing Moment of Recognition