November 13, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
What is it like to be you Charles Eisenstein posed this question in his excellent book, “Climate”. How easy is it to judge others for their choices, bias, and world view? How we suffer at the judgement of others who fail to consider the context of our choices....
November 2, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs, Syntropic Enterprise
The architecture of trust Begins with the promises we make to ourselves. If we cannot keep the promises with ourselves we are unlikely to keep the promises we make with others. There is a vast difference in using words such as ‘I will” and “I would like to..” “I would...
October 2, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Speak what is present So often we grapple with issues with other humans. Something is not working in a relationship, be that personal or partnership, and we get stuck on what to say and do. To speak what is present is not to project your own emotional retinue onto...
September 30, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Listen till you no longer exist To listen to another human as if their every word was the most important event occurring right now on the planet takes practice. Rather than be with them, listening, we find ourselves in our own conversation…perhaps preparing the...
September 24, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Impossible to have conversations Like vaccination, our addiction to growth, climate, the Israel-Palestinian turmoil. These conversations bring out the black-and-white world of good and bad, right and wrong…followed immediately by labelling the opinion that is not ours...
September 23, 2019 | Beauty of Beginnings, Dare to Care-Conscious Communication, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Taking Feedback Feedback is delivered in a thousand ways. From the projected rage of someone lost in their very own bad experience to the thoughtful care of a loved one watching us make incongruent or ill-considered decisions. If we adopted the approach that every...