In the early 80s, the marketing slogan “no pain, no gain” became the motto for exercising the body’s muscles to the point of fatigue where one would “feel the burn” in order to maximize athletic excellence. Although popularized by Jane…
The prospect of e-publishing my latest and longest developing book, Creating Space – The Practice of Transformation, Volume 1, is close at hand. March is my month to tidy up all the loose ends keeping me from this goal. Because…
(Co-authored by: Doug Austrom, Don de Guerre, Bob Laliberte, Bernard Mohr and Carolyn Ordowich) Last weekend I pondered a question my colleagues (Socio-Technical Systems Roundtable) and I are considering as we document our community’s action research discovery process. How do…
The recent media attention garnered by Apple’s lack of social purpose and action has raised three questions for me. • When is enough money, enough? • When is the incongruence between our values and our actions enough for us to…
In last week’s blog, I commented on the rightness and restfulness of finding the middle ground between extreme choices. Because this balancing act is being played out presently in my own life as survival and thriving, I am sharing something…
The posture of yoga is steady and easy. It is realized by relaxing one’s effort and resting like the cosmic serpent on the waters of infinity. Then one is unconstrained by opposing dualities. Barbara Stoler Miller Until I began to…
Upon some reflection, I feel the loss of solid ground and the shifting sands of a new beginning taking hold of me. In this case, the often lengthy and useful learning phase between endings and new beginnings was unrecognizable and…
Currently, I am working with a new group of clients who are all transitioning from one career to another. As can emerge, when change is forced upon us, fear of the unknown surfaced for many of them. What can also…
Are you a New Year’s resolution maker? Do you need a little inspiration this year to trigger what is important to you? Each of us seeks to learn and grow in our own unique ways. I found the Dalai Lama’s…
The key to keeping your balance is knowing when you’ve lost it. After a 3-week hiatus from blogging, I am grateful to say, “I’m back.” I needed the first two weeks off in order to ‘separate’ from the past 12…
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Mahatma Gandhi In spite of our diversity and uniqueness, at this time of year…
My Socio-technical Systems (STS) writing co-horts and I loosely refer to the current global economic and social environment as the “new normal” — a term we did not invent but are seeing used to define conditions in diverse contexts. As…
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