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Welcome to my short reflections on community, conflict, healing, transformation, leadership development, systemic change, and more, out of my 25+ years of experience in these realms of human living, being and doing.
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Limits for Liberation (opens the original)
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“Ask the questions that have no answers.Invest in the millenium. Plant sequoias.Say that your main crop is the forestthat you did not plant,that you will not live to harvest.Say that the leaves are harvestedwhen they have rotted into the mold.Call that profit. Prophesy such returns.Put your faith in the two inches of humusthat will build under the treesevery thousand years.”<p style="text-al
Three Connective Offerings (opens the original)
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I will be putting out another longer form essay soon and, in the meantime, wanted to share about three other offerings that are now out in the world!Six Ways to Thrive in Zombie TimesWelcome to Zombie Times–where the forces of disconnection run strong. Fear not, however, for if you feel empathy for anyone, you are Awake, and you can access your unique gifts to help grow beautiful and just ways forward. Let’s co-create Liberation Zones together, and
The Inevitability of Rupture (opens the original)
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What’s that old saying? “You can’t bake a cake without cracking a couple eggs!” (Forgive me, all you vegans out there!)These days, I’ve been thinking a lot about rupture, conflict, heartbreak — and repair, healing, learning, forgiveness. The more I recognize the power of community, and the essential truths of interdependence and interbeing, the more I have come to believe that we can’t have the communities we want, much less the world of our deepest dreams, without also having conflicts. Rupture
So Goes the Leadership... (opens the original)
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Last week, like many millions of people around the world, I saw The Odyssey in the theater and was amazed. There is so much to lift up in this modern remake of a 2700+-year-old story, and without giving anything away (I hope), to me, it was a profound inquiry into leadership — of the one vs. the many, arrogance vs. humility, control vs. surrender — and the impacts of disregarding the core values of humanity: interdependence, truthfulness, and do-no-harm. It’s hard for me not to be focused on the
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