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 for my trip to ...
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 right. We want to know we have been s...
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 dominant species is ...
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 front (lo...
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 “story geography” can help you ...
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.
She began by introducing linear liminality. This is what most ...
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 most important things...
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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 relationships about to...
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 beans. ...
The summer solstice falls on the longest day of the year and marks the moment when the days begin to grow shorter. In cultures where the short days are REALLY short (and last for a very long time!), like Scandinavia, it is the time to celebrate Midsummer.
In the lands of the summertime “white nigh...
I remember the first time I walked on a bridge in Europe and saw a bright array of padlocks engraved with names and dates.
This wasn’t a custom I was used to, so I walked slowly and looked at them all carefully. I could sense the promise that each one held, together with the plea that this love st...
For my birthday on Thursday, my friends took me to Nuremberg. It is a place of fond memories for me. I spent a magical summer there in my early 20s, on an AIESEC traineeship (https://aiesec.org).
I flatted with another woman who was warm and welcoming and had a boyfriend with a Porsche. I hung out...