For more than a year I've been listening to people's questions and stories and noticing a red thread through all of them -- the question: "Who am I now in the face of this?"
"This" might be anything...
I had one conversation with two people where "this" was something major. And devastating.
Other...
A very interesting read for times like these.
Last week I just finished reading Malcom Gladwell's 25 year update to his bestselling The Tipping Point. The subtitle for this volume is "Overstories, Superspreaders and the rise of social engineering." And yes, you should be paying attention to all of ...
Anyone who flies a lot knows you can't take anything for granted.
Long ago in my facilitation practice, when I learned about Open Space Technology, I was really struck by the four principles and the one law. I could immediately see how they could be a way to travel the world with less struggle and...
Today is Valentine's Day. It's time to change our story about LOVE.
Love is not fluffy, soft and only to be sought in romantic terms. Love is basic to human nature, the glue of human society, a basic practice we all can share.
Today is one day to remember that love is not a feeling -- love is a v...
How do you stay the course?
This past week I've had many interesting conversations with people all over the globe. In a call with a practitioner friend today, she admitted to me that she regularly wakes up in the night with anxiety and a racing mind. She told me about a term I wasn't familiar with ...
The best thing Santa can give you this holiday season will not be found under the tree. Is it the power of questions.
When I think back over my time in groups -- and I mean ALL groups including my family -- the most important thing I've learned is that asking a question with genuine curiosity when...
I'm back in Ohio again, slowly putting the pieces back together before my holiday trip to my sisters starting this weekend. I've been to the osteopath and the massage therapist (both more than once), I've got all the stuff that needs to go to family boxed up and also items sorted out for my trip to ...
The more I look at how people are acting in the world, the more I can see the value we've created around knowing.
We want to know how things work. We want to know the perfect answer. We want to know the gossip. We want to know the truth. We want to know we are right. We want to know we have been s...
I am so grateful to all those neighbours who decided to plant flowers. When I go on my daily walks I get their beauty for free, but I also get a reminder from Nature about the core strength of human beings.
See, human beings are a lot like bees.The reason we have become such a dominant species is ...
This is a picture of my last suitcase way back when it was new. When I realised the only suitcase fitting my requirements was a boring, ordinary, navy blue, I asked a young friend to get creative and she painted it for me.
It had my logo on the back, the symbols from my website on the front (lo...
Did you know there is a geography to story?
Of course everyone know there’s BEGINNING, MIDDLE and END. These are the parts of story. But my colleague Paul Andrew Costello told me there’s also a beginning, middle and end to every PART of the story.
Knowing this piece of “story geography” can help you ...
What does "liminal space" and what are its gifts?
Heather Plett was our Fireside Conversation guest in THE STORY DOJO this month. What she said about her discoveries around liminal space stayed with me and caused me to think deeply.
She began by introducing linear liminality. This is what most ...