One can say that everything has a growth cycle, particularly when we refer to living organisms. However, we can also state that every system designed by humans has a growth cycle. Whatever we create reflects who we are. Therefore, individuals,…
Wherever we turn for learning and development, someone is writing about leadership. From a cursory “google” of the subject, I found at least three books written in the last three years all titled, “The Leadership Gap” alongside countless others addressing…
Recently, surrounded by several conversations each regarding personal boundaries, the same essential question arose — what boundaries define an enlightened relationship versus an entangled one? Although the question appears relatively straight forward, what is confusing is that each of us,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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