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For Truth, Beauty and Goodness, Engage with the Earth

As I spend my delicious summer days gardening winter’s ice from my veins, I feel utterly embraced by nature’s beauty, truth and goodness. All personal worries and other warts fall away with each weed picked and blossom admired. The earth…

Helen Maupin

Seeding Spirit’s Network

For the past seven years, I’ve written weekly about transformation whether within an organization, a team or my own personal being. As I say to clients and friends, there is no more captivating a subject. Such a statement might indicate…

Helen Maupin

To Believe or Not To Believe 

My favourite Wiki dictionary defines “belief” as an idea one accepts as likely being true or real with or without there being empirical evidence to prove that something is the case with factual certainty. In conversation with friends, we probably…

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Organization Design & Development — Is DIY possible?

Like most of you, I have a list of summertime DIY projects waiting for my attention. As I conduct my research on each one of them, I either decide to proceed or to hire a professional. My decision to DIY…

Helen Maupin

Teachers, Mentors & Coaches — Are Boundaries Necessary?

Can you be friends with those you teach, mentor or coach? Some would say you can be friendly but must retain a professional distance. For what purpose, I wonder. Respect? Authority? Power? Ethics? When I consider the mentors I am…

Helen Maupin

Essential Skills for the 21st Century

As the decades pass with technology continuing to accelerate change and demand innovation, increasingly sophisticated skill training is required at younger and younger developmental ages. This was not so evident in my youth. As a 20-year old psychology student in…

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Plan, Design, Do or Is Trusting the Process Enough?

With so much of our global experience made visible on a daily basis, I think we can all agree on one thing — life, as we experience it today, is complex. But is this the natural way of things or…

Helen Maupin

Chemistry & Compatibility — What’s Love Got To Do With It?

Whether platonic or romantic, I have always felt chemistry and compatibility to be foundational pillars of a healthy intimate relationship. But what do we mean when we have chemistry with another person? Is it that felt experience of instant connection?…

Helen Maupin

Medicine and Money — Intimate Partners in Crime

In 2004, the American Journal of Clinical Oncology published this 11-year research finding — 97% of chemotherapy does not work. WOW, who knew? This research result chalks up as one of the world’s best-kept secrets given most cancer patients over…

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Goodbye Depression, Hello Purpose, Curiosity & Commitment

Depression has actually now surpassed HIV/AIDS, malaria, diabetes and war as the leading cause of disability worldwide.     Rebecca Brachman For several years, the World Health Organization has predicted the rise of depression to its current status as a priority mental…

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Collaboration, High Performance and the Mystery of Being 

When I read the following blog title in Inc.com, ‘Collaboration’ Creates Mediocrity, Not Excellence, According to Science, I was stunned. Probably for two reasons, the first being I’ve spent nearly 30 years in business successfully collaborating and co-creating and the…

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