Today is Valentine's Day. It's time to change our story about LOVE.
Love is not fluffy, soft and only to be sought in romantic terms. Love is basic to human nature, the glue of human society, a basic practice we all can share.
Today is one day to remember that love is not a...
How do you stay the course?
This past week I've had many interesting conversations with people all over the globe. In a call with a practitioner friend today, she admitted to me that she regularly wakes up in the night with anxiety and a racing mind. She told me about a term I wasn't familiar...
The best thing Santa can give you this holiday season will not be found under the tree. Is it the power of questions.
When I think back over my time in groups -- and I mean ALL groups including my family -- the most important thing I've learned is that asking a question with...
I'm back in Ohio again, slowly putting the pieces back together before my holiday trip to my sisters starting this weekend. I've been to the osteopath and the massage therapist (both more than once), I've got all the stuff that needs to go to family boxed up and also items sorted out...
The more I look at how people are acting in the world, the more I can see the value we've created around knowing.
We want to know how things work. We want to know the perfect answer. We want to know the gossip. We want to know the truth. We want to know we are...
I am so grateful to all those neighbours who decided to plant flowers. When I go on my daily walks I get their beauty for free, but I also get a reminder from Nature about the core strength of human beings.
See, human beings are a lot like bees.The reason we have become such a...
This is a picture of my last suitcase way back when it was new. When I realised the only suitcase fitting my requirements was a boring, ordinary, navy blue, I asked a young friend to get creative and she painted it for me.
It had my logo on the back, the symbols from my website on the...
Did you know there is a geography to story?
Of course everyone know there’s BEGINNING, MIDDLE and END. These are the parts of story. But my colleague Paul Andrew Costello told me there’s also a beginning, middle and end to every PART of the story.
Knowing this piece of...
What does "liminal space" and what are its gifts?
Heather Plett was our Fireside Conversation guest in THE STORY DOJO this month. What she said about her discoveries around liminal space stayed with me and caused me to think deeply.
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HINT: it's one of the key skills of a great host as well.
It's holding space.
This concept -- and it's practice -- can be hard for practitioners who are focused on methods to understand because you don't appear to be doing anything. But in fact, you are doing one of the...
Although we like to think of life as one big story, in reality, every human being is an intersection of stories. And they're all going on at the same time!
There are stories in your life right at the beginning. New things starting, new adventures to have, new experiences and...
The other day I accompanied my girlfriend to get the shopping. The organic shop they frequent has a chilled veggie section and I find it quite cold, so I was waiting outside the door with the rest of the groceries.
I happened to find myself standing in front of some shelves full of nuts and...