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Leading Effectively
People follow leaders because of who they are more than because of what they do. Developing self-awareness, engaging in self-reflection, acting with integrity, and being able to develop and maintain authentic relationships are what make individuals effective leaders. Read more
Where are the Artists?
My colleague, Yvette Hyater-Adams and I have been in Singapore for the last few days having come to present a workshop on Creative Leadership at the NTL Festival of Learning. On our first morning here, Yvette woke a few hours earlier than me and I found her sitting on the terrace searching the web to find the places and organizations in which she could find Singapore’s artist communities. Read more
Feeling Stuck vs. Letting the Fields Lay Fallow
Because of a variety of challenges that had been taking place for me personally, I found myself in that scary but familiar place of transition – the place you are in when an ending of some kind has occurred, but the new beginning has not yet fallen into place. Transition, as William Bridges explains so well in his book Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes, is a place of confusion and, sometimes, distress. It can be a painful and scary place because what is known and familiar no longer exists and what is coming is not yet visible. Often, it feels like we are “stuck” in place. The more Read more
Fabulous Learning And Discovery Opportunity in Mumbai
In November 2011, I will be co-presenting a workshop on Creative Leadership with my colleague and friend, Yvette Hyater-Adams as part of the ten-day NTL Festival of Learning. It is a great opportunity for personal and professional development.
The Festival was conceived as a means to connect a diverse global network of learners in various parts of the world to each other. Last year’s Festival of Learning was in Singapore. The Festival will provide participants with a chance to bring their curiosity, passion and desire to discover their full potential while sharing ideas, feelings and perspectives in a collaborative search for new meaning and insights.
For more information, check out the Festival’s website as well as this video.
Connecting Words and People in Community: Uniting Threads of Identity
Come join me in a writing workshop I am co-facilitating on September 18, 2011. We will be using writing and creativity exercises to explore how the individual threads that make up our identities connect us to the community beyond ourselves. For more information, click here.
I hope to see you there.
Take the Time for a Moment of Reflection
In various spiritual practices, the world as we experience it with our senses is considered an illusion. It is not reality. Reality is the internal place at the core of our being – the place our inner wisdom, inner calm and sense of well being reside; the place that contains the essence of our energetic life force. Even though I believe this to be true, it’s still so easy to forget the power of what lies within and get caught up in the external world.
How often do you strive to do things in the outer world to bring you happiness, Read more
Take a Moment of Reflection: Open the Door
“… Do you think this world was only an entertainment for you?
Never to enter the sea and notice how the water divides
with perfect courtesy, to let you in!
Never to lie down on the grass, as though you were the grass!
Never to leap to the air as you open your wings over the dark acorn of your heart!No wonder we hear, in your mournful voice, the complaint
that something is missing from your life!Who can open the door who does not reach for the latch?
Who can travel the miles who does not put one foot
in front of the other, all attentive to what presents itself
continually?
Who will behold the inner chamber who has not observed
with admiration, even with rapture, the outer stone?Well, there is time left –
fields everywhere invite you into them.And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away
from wherever you are, to look for your soul?Quickly, then, get up, put on your coat, leave your desk!
…Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”
-Mary Oliver
Your life was meant to be lived fully, to be experienced fully – not to be merely a treadmill you walk until it’s over. Read more
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