Charisma — for Coercion or Collaboration?
During a recent conversation (thanks Deri and David), I discovered the elusive nature underpinning the compelling attractiveness of charisma. Interestingly, the
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Personal Growth
Be Happy or Be Normal?
In order to be happy, have you spent your life resisting social pressures to be normal? Has anyone said to
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Mindfully Cultivating Confidence
At various times in our lives, each of us experiences the feeling we could do anything we desire. It’s a
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Tipping from Confusion into Certainty
When was the last time you experienced confusion? We all know that feeling of not being able to move forward
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Divine Discourse
This past weekend, I had a thoughtful conversation with several yoga students on a subject near and dear to my
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A Season of Transition
Autumn is looming on the horizon. In Northern climates like mine this means a whole host of activities emerge necessary
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Find Your Emotional Voice
Recently I read a sad story about loneliness, which as a mortality risk factor is currently ranked as high as
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Reflections
Everything that irritates us about others [or our circumstances] can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. Carl
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Points of Personal Power — People, Places, Present Possibilities
One of my greatest discoveries was realizing I could heal myself merely by paying attention to what was arising within
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For Truth, Beauty and Goodness, Engage with the Earth
As I spend my delicious summer days gardening winter’s ice from my veins, I feel utterly embraced by nature’s beauty,
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Seeding Spirit’s Network
For the past seven years, I’ve written weekly about transformation whether within an organization, a team or my own personal
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To Believe or Not To Believe
My favourite Wiki dictionary defines “belief” as an idea one accepts as likely being true or real with or without
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Enneagram Personality Profile — Benefit or Bogus?
Personality tests help us see more clearly into who we are as well as what motivates our decisions and actions.
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Plan, Design, Do or Is Trusting the Process Enough?
With so much of our global experience made visible on a daily basis, I think we can all agree on
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Chemistry & Compatibility — What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Whether platonic or romantic, I have always felt chemistry and compatibility to be foundational pillars of a healthy intimate relationship.
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Medicine and Money — Intimate Partners in Crime
In 2004, the American Journal of Clinical Oncology published this 11-year research finding — 97% of chemotherapy does not work.
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Goodbye Depression, Hello Purpose, Curiosity & Commitment
Depression has actually now surpassed HIV/AIDS, malaria, diabetes and war as the leading cause of disability worldwide. Rebecca Brachman For
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Collaboration, High Performance and the Mystery of Being
When I read the following blog title in Inc.com, ‘Collaboration’ Creates Mediocrity, Not Excellence, According to Science, I was stunned.
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Intuition — The Disruptive Skill
In this era of interconnected, volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (iVUCA) challenges, disruptive products and services are much sought after.
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Emotional Suppression — Are We Witnessing its Swan Song?
If I polled people, myself included, as to whether they were taught to recognize and successfully navigate their emotions, they would all likely answer the same — “No way.” In fact, children and adults are still trained to suppress rather than express emotion. The evidence is present in such statements made to young males as — “Boys don’t cry” or to adult women — “If you want their respect, don’t let them see your tears.”
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