January 29, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Listen till you no longer exist reminder A long time ago when I started coaching, I created a simple formula I called the Communication Formula. Step one was ‘listen till you no longer exist.’ Translated, listen until the multiple voices in your head stop....
January 28, 2019 | Deliberately Developmental Organisations, Future of Business, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Integral Theory Brief Overview Integral theory is a complex model steeped in the work of many great philosophers and developementalists, including Clare Graves, Don Beck (who taught me Spiral Dynamics), Jean Gebser, Abraham Maslow, Robert Kegan, Carol Gilligan. The...
January 28, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Personal Development
Orbit in Love To fall in love is to fall in. Collapse. Merge. There is no space, no tension, no polarity. Shortly it will become an undifferentiated mass of non identity. To fall out of love is to fall out. To become separate. To orbit in love is to maintain dynamic...
January 27, 2019 | Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Speak the truth Communication is fraught with difficulty, emotion, fear, and a lack of skill, and we are rarely taught how to do it well! We teach the following communication formula in our work, developing conscious communication skills as part of advanced leadership...
January 27, 2019 | Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Listen For What we listen for matters. Listening is a very complex art form that takes at least several lifetimes to master. It is also very different for all people based on their life experience and worldview. In an earlier article, I wrote about listening until you...