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Creativity — An Act of Love

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.      Marc Chagall Each week, I co-design and co-facilitate two meditation writing groups.  The purpose of these small group sessions  is to – •  relax the…

Helen Maupin

Love — Our Greatest Fear?

Osho, Eastern mystic, states the greatest human fear is our fear of the unknown. To stand alone . . . the fear arises:  Who knows whether you are right or wrong? To stand alone, you stand in coldness. To stand…

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Fear Forward — Break Through instead of Break Down

My fears are my early warning signals for what I need to master. Curiosity found me counting the number of blogs (56) in which I wrote about some aspect of fear.  As a faithful bi-weekly and then weekly blogger over…

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Change Avoider or Change Adaptor — Which Are You?

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.      Charles Darwin Over the last two decades, our personal and professional experience with changing circumstances in our lives…

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Organizational Designer or Community Builder?

It is Day One after a long journey back from Canterbury, England.  As always upon my return from the Socio-technical Systems Roundtable’s (STS-RT) annual learning event, I am filled with more questions than answers, which is probably a good measure of…

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Responsibility — Are you Willing & Able?

This weekend’s paper published a two-page spread, not on the U.S. Republican convention nor on the provincial election in Quebec but on the over-population of cats in urban settings.  As the statistics estimated, “between 50,000 and 100,000 cats (not spayed…

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Under Construction

For a third week running, I continue my conversation on identity, a topic foremost on my mind since my pilgrimage back to my youth in the form of a 40th high school reunion. As I reflect on what identity has…

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Breaking “Class” Barriers

My last blog talked about identity transformation, a universal life experience in which we choose to alter who we are and how we express ourselves in the outer world; that is, we change our being not just our behaviour. Identity…

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Identity — Who Are You?

Tomorrow will find me enroute to my 40th high school reunion in Gull Lake, Saskatchewan.  As I ponder the pleasure and pain of adolescents growing up together in a small-town, I realize some of my school chums will be unrecognizable…

Helen Maupin

Surviving and Thriving without Striving

When I reflect back on my early consulting career, it was filled with striving — striving to reach a project goal, striving to be recognized for my expertise, striving to grow my practice and revenue.  As a result of this…

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Numb One, Numb All

As humans, we do not have the capacity to selectively numb out only our dark emotions.  When we numb out any emotion, we numb out all emotion.  Hence why many people no longer know what brings them joy.  In numbing…

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An Attitude of Gratitude — The Power of Perception

Where attention goes, energy flows. The adage above reminds us that with our thoughts, we create our reality.  Simply put, with doom and gloom thoughts, we create a doom and gloom reality.  With thoughts of abundance, we create an abundant…

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