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Stakeholder Engagement — Why? What? How? Who? When?

Developing an organizational vision with the long-term capabilities of both people engagement and product or service innovation requires bringing the entire organization into the planning room. Organizations are complex entities with people, processes and systems all needing to be coordinated…

Helen Maupin

Cultivating Collaborative Conversations — Spirit-to-Spirit

In our truth, we all wish for heartfelt communication with family, friends and coworkers.  I call these spirit-to-spirit conversations.  However, even the most articulate and sensitive of us can let our emotions run wild and lose control over our ability…

Helen Maupin

Integrity — Is Life Testing Ours?

The mass migration of over four million Syrian refugees into the European Union poses a second opportunity for that collective of countries (as well as the entire world) to extend compassion and share resources with those in need.  Greece’s near…

Helen Maupin

Knees That Please

Even before reaching middle age, many sports enthusiasts and athletes find themselves challenged with “bad knees.”  Disease, a family history of arthritis, improper bone alignment and long-term repetitive movement are all sources of knee pain.  Furthermore, as the largest joints…

Helen Maupin

Energy Transformation — Say What?

Prior to practicing yoga, I had a very superficial understanding of energy. Either I had it, or I didn’t. For me, it was a felt sensation in my body signalling how invigorated or deflated I judged myself to be in that moment.

Many years ago, during a Reiki session, the practitioner working on me asked if I could feel energy moving in my body. I was puzzled by her question and instead answered, “What I feel is tingling in my feet.” “That’s energy,” was her reply, “you feel it when it moves.”

Helen Maupin

On Terra Firma

In the beginning years of a yoga practice, much emphasis is placed on standing poses,  which were designed to develop strength, stamina, flexibility and balance.  Through their continued practice, we build a firm foundation starting with the feet and ankles…

Helen Maupin

What “Else” Matters — No Matter What

Two weeks back, I promised to finish my list of what matters most on a path of peace, love and joy. This is a fitting subject for a day where I am entering my seventh decade of living. On these…

Helen Maupin

Standing On Our Own Two Feet

Yoga’s eight limbs or pathways are intended to strengthen our response-ability no matter what situation emerges in our day-to-day living.  In essence, this means ensuring the thoughts, words and deeds we put out into the world are of pure intention. …

Helen Maupin

Relationships — Are Yours Push or Pull?

I am currently doing two things I really love — reinventing myself and collaborating with a like-spirited person.  Over the past eight months, my dear friend, Chris, and I met once a week in a self-designed discovery process.  Its purpose…

Helen Maupin

“WHAT” Matters — No Matter What

When I was leaving my 30s and entering the journey through mid-life, I remember feeling great uncertainty as I pondered what my life purpose was, what brought me joy and how I would find these answers.  A good friend and…

Helen Maupin

Work’s Golden Era — 10 New Norms for Work

Assimilating the interconnected, volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous—iVUCA—demands of our current socio-economic environment can trigger considerable stress in our work and workplaces. The upside of these potentially more stressful experiences is we are witnessing a significant transformation in how we…

Helen Maupin

Right Thoughts, Right Words & Right Deeds Change the World

Be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi When Gandhi spoke these words to the world, he was encouraging us to choose a path of wisdom as opposed to a path of fear. In his interpretation…

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