March 18, 2015 | Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
“Attention without feeling is only a report” Mary Oliver One of the saddest aspects of our current commercial, success, status and achievement-based culture is that we have taught millions of kids, mostly men, to grow up completely disconnected from their...
March 17, 2015 | Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Creating a safe space where the wild part of us can make an appearance We each have a wild part of us. Raw, instinctual, unrefined. Able to live off the land, to survive against odds. It has a home territory. It shies away from anything that is not known, from crowds,...
March 16, 2015 | Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
The cost of avoiding the firing line of verbal and energetic attack – resignation is the death of spirit Many people do not like confrontation. I find confrontation quite easy…from years of teaching how to speak the radical truth with compassion, I know...
March 10, 2015 | Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Syntropic Enterprise
The subject tonight is love – love in context A word used like common table salt, often without any connectivity to genuine emotion. A word that signifies a force greater than comprehension. Bucky Fuller said that love was metaphysical gravity. Before we modern...
March 9, 2015 | Dare to Care-Conscious Communication
Asking questions – a conversation for understanding – let’s not make assumptions I am amazed by how much inefficiency we build into any relationship or system by our failure to ask questions. How easy is it to make assumptions, jump to conclusions,...