Have you ever thought much about your senses?
They are the main way we meet the world in this physical body. Sight, sound, smell, taste, touch all help us to interpret the world.
But often we get into a routine with the sensory realm and we respond to the world through habit. Working...
Do you ever feel you speak a different language to other people? And I'm not talking about all the flavours of English out there (which believe me, are wide and varied, the idioms will get you every time!).
Two words I use a lot are PRACTICE and PRACTITIONER. I often hear crickets when I mention...
Have you ever been asked what you felt is missing in the world? How did you respond?
While I've talked, written and worked a lot with story, there's a powerful flipside of the coin that very few people seem to be paying attention to. Story is a powerful tool, a human superpower, the secret...
On Monday I celebrated my birthday in Tisvilde, a small town I like very much on the Northern coast of Denmark. At the intersection of forest and ocean there's a stillness and a slowness that feels like a blessing.
Last night I sat on a rock talking with a friend on Facetime, showing...
People have been asking me how my trip to India was. Last week I had an appointment with an oesteopath, a naturopath, a nurse practitioner and the dentist. I'm hoping pretty soon my body will be finished processing my experience. All that personal "refinement" aside, I found myself...
I remember laughing out loud at hearing Pema Chödrön once say: "If you think you're enlightened, go home to your family."
She has a good point.
If you think you're a good leader / facilitator / conflict resolution coach / mediation specialist / meditator / process...
Where once I felt like a voice at the rim calling for more attention on the relational field, the more we move online the more it becomes obvious that relationship is at the heart of transformation. In fact, that might be the most important thing I learned joining Civil Defense all...
This is traditionally the time of year when people take a pause to reflect, reset and renew. It is a time for new year’s resolutions, a time when hope springs eternal about the potential and possibility of the new.
And small wonder. In the Northern Hemisphere, December equinox marks...
This is my rewrite of a series of blogposts from 2017, formulated into a chapter for a new book being published in 2019. It comes in three parts, covering six perspectives I’m working with on the power of stories and what colleagues David Hutchens, David Drake and I call “The...