(R)evolution — An aRm of Evolution
You say you want a revolution Well you know We all want to change the world You tell me that it’s evolution Well you know We all want to change the world The Beatles When we consider the word revolution,…
Compassion — A 3-Step Formula
When attempting to define compassion, many begin by describing it as non-judgment. As someone who wishes to focus on what I want in life rather than what I don’t want (negativity), I would much rather describe the experience of compassion…
BE REAL — Are You Doing Your Part?
Life isn’t a business to be managed, it’s a mystery to be lived. Osho In a recent speaking engagement, I used archetypes to help those attending answer the following question — Who am I Really? An archetype is an…
Culture & Consciousness — The DNA of Leadership
DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid) holds the genetic instructions that enable all living things to function, grow and reproduce. Typically, we speak of DNA in reference to species development. However, I have also heard DNA used as a metaphor for organizational functioning…
Pain — Is It A Relationship Deal Breaker?
If little labour, little are our gains: Man’s fate is according to his pains. Robert Herrick, Hesperides (1650) In 1982 when Jane Fonda touted the words, “No pain, no gain,” she was referencing a physical exercise motto intended to build…
Sacrifice — The Road to Self-Discipline
In 2004, as part of my yoga teacher training, I wrote the following essay on sacrifice. As with most of my initial thoughts on any subject, much of what emerged reflected my intuition and early experience of what needed to…
Collaboration is Key to a Solution-based Economy
In 2011, I wrote a blog echoing the current duality of living as a global society with a foot in each of two economic paradigms — competition and collaboration. At that time, I offered a middle ground of “do no…
Converging on Integration — Blending the Positive and the Negative
I was inspired to write this blog in response to an interesting question from a recent dinner conversation — “How did we, as a global society, get to this point in our evolution?” What proceeded was much discourse around…
Authenticity — The Real Me
In last week’s RRRN meditation and writing circle, we explored our hero/villain archetype — the dual expressions or boundaries of our human experience regarding who we want to be. In our human search for purpose, direction and integration (the hero’s journey),…
Self-Actualization — The Inner Journey of Passion, Purpose, Potential
Our lives are not our own, from womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future. Sonmi-451, Cloud Atlas Realizing my passion, purpose and potential and then…
A Discovery Roundtable
Yesterday, our STS community considered the ecosystem within which individuals, organizations and networks live and work. Both the implications of New Economics and Big Data were addressed relative to the impacts on our own emerging experience of Big Design. That…
Journey to Ithica
We glimpsed a very inspiring future yesterday during the Equitable Food Initiative’s (EFI) presentation. The presenters demonstrated the collaboration power of their emerging ecosystem — major food buyers, growers, farm workers and consumer advocates — in growing safer food and…