LINES TO LIVE BY
The Missing Piece: Moving from “I” to “We”
For those who’ve read my second book, you may be wondering why I’ve invested so heavily in revising the content and released it under a new title, We Can Do This! 10 Tools to Unleash Collective Genius. Why now? And why this dedication to nurturing a movement to...
We Can Do This! guidebook for teams, now available on Amazon
It’s here! My latest offering, We Can Do This! 10 Tools to Unleash Collective Genius, builds on my second book to support anyone seeking to enliven and empower themselves and their teams. And it’s now available through my website and on Amazon! Meant to serve as a...
Engaging Ways
Most meetings and most trainings are ho-hum. Here are some simple ideas to spark more engagement, more connections, and more fun. You don't have to be in a formal leadership position to make them happen. "Connection before Direction" is an important principle. If...
Intergenerational Systems
Each of us are parts of wider systems which -- often invisibly -- influence what we do. Neuroscientists working with laboratory mice have shown that fears and trauma appear to be transferred down generations through DNA. The mice were trained to be afraid of a scent...
Potent Leverage Points
My colleague, Anne, speaks about "noodling" when she has a question that calls her into new territory. I love the image, and want to share the noodling I've been doing about leverage points to support non-linear change. Faced with a challenge or opportunity, one of...
“Barefoot Facilitators”
“I think there are good reasons for suggesting that the modern age has ended. Today, many things indicate that we are going thorough a transitional period, when it seems that something is on the way out and something else is painfully being born. It is as if something...
Transformative Change
If you have a pattern or block you'd like to transform, consider creating a ritual. Distilling the change you want to make into a rite of passage supports shifts in non-linear and almost instantaneous ways. Years ago I was in a workshop with the great Jean Houston....
Navigating Transitions
Perhaps you can relate: after the joy and elation when my new book was "done," I felt lost. My usual clarity about priorities and next steps had vanished. I felt pressure to be productive -- to tackle the next items on my "to do" list. But the times I tried to do a...
Emergency Preparedness on the Inner
If we want to be grounded and calm in a crisis, we need to cultivate this capacity, the way a person wanting to climb Mount Everest needs to build up physical and mental stamina. For years I have used the simple breathing exercise below as part a daily practice of...