November 17, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Comfortable with discomfort After seven days in Japan, we feel like we have crossed a threshold of ability to navigate and be with our experience. The first few days challenged us in so many ways. Confusion. Questions. Uncertainty. Getting lost. I cherish this...
November 15, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Between the mundane and sacred Yesterday, we walked through thousands of Torii gates. In the Shinto tradition, the gates are the threshold crossings between the mundane and sacred. To deliberately cross a threshold that asks us to be fully conscious of entering the...
November 14, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development
Harmony, order and self-development These are the three main pillars of Japanese culture. In Syntropic World language, following our lineage of the work of Buckminster Fuller, these elements would be called the Pattern Integrity of Japan. The image I share, a break...
November 10, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
To be an anthropologist Quite literally, I am lost in translation. Stepping into another culture with language, food, writing and customs that are alien to me is quite a discombobulating experience. I am the visitor, the guest. My intention is to approach my Japanese...
November 8, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
How easy is it to blame I am hurt. It is their fault. Look what they did to me. When we do this, when we point the finger at the other, we simultaneously give the other the authority over us. In so doing, we lose our agency. When the other is to blame, we become...
November 5, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Personal Development, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
When we get lost in the story For several decades I have been engaged to find a pathway between messy business, team and partnership relationship breakdowns. All of the pain, anxiety, sleepless nights, stress and heartbreak. Add anger, frustration, withdrawal and all...
