Recently I had the honor to sit with Craig and Patricia Neal, authors of The Art of Convening and founders of The Center for Purposeful Leadership. Their career spans a lifetime of bringing people together in ways that generate authentic engagement and meaningful connection. What stood out for me was

I interviewed Marilyn Darling and Heidi Sparkes Guber just as the COVID-19 crisis was beginning to take on global proportions. Marilyn and Heidi are the founders of Fourth Quadrant Partners, an organization that works to create sustainable social change through emergent learning.  Their work pulls from decades of research working

I have been reflecting on the power of discovery.  Discovery is more than just observation.  It is curiosity and engagement.  Every moment presents an opportunity to discover what is there. Often though, we are tranquilized by obviousness.Imagine yourself always wearing rose colored sunglasses.  It would be obvious that the world

One of my favorite zen stories is that of the overflowing cup. An affluent man comes to visit a zen master, requesting knowledge about enlightenment. The master invites him to tea and begins to pour a cup. As the cup fills, the master doesn’t stop pouring. Tea spills and the

I have been exploring the juxtaposition of both expecting that a person be honest and sincere while being forgiving if I realize they are not.   Just by being with another as they are, without expecting them to be any different, I find the experience of life opens up.  I

I sometimes feel tension when metaphysical concepts are presented in scientific ways. Part of me wants to believe that such things can be measured and documented. And yet I often find the presentation of such evidence lacking in substance. Perhaps the science of it is less important than the resulting

I have been reflecting on a thought that my mother shared with me years ago – to be a true master you learn everything there is to know in a field and then let it go.  There is a moment of releasing yourself from the confines of the way things

I often reflect on the woundedness of the world.  It has been the blessing of my adult life to come into contact with my own woundedness and thereby create space for healing and wholeness.  By that same token, I have become more receptive to the suffering around me.  Trauma is