I think the radio show On Being with Krista Tibbet is the best show on the airwaves right now. This year she has been conducting a series of interviews around how can we have civil conversations with each other when we fundamentally disagree. Check it out…
Category: Meaningful Conversations
Many of the articles posted on this blog eventually led me to the development of the two decks of cards that are now available for purchase on this website: Revealed Presence Story Cards and the Intuitive Directions “game”.
What I’m reading: Honey Bee Democracy
Honeybee Democracy by Thomas Seeley is a fascinating account of how honeybee swarms make lilfe-or-death group decisions to move to a new location. When the hive swarms they’ve made the decision to leave their current location, but don’t yet know where they will be moving to. Scout bees are sent out to find possible locations for More…
Creating Healthy and Resilient Communities
As the hosting team prepares for the Art of Hosting – Vermont training that’s starting this Thursday, we’ve honed in on the theme of creating healthy and resilient communities. The group that’s gathering has begun to have email conversations around this topic which has prompted me to think deeply about the questions of what is More…
Think of it as a conversation
Over the course of the last several months, I’ve made an important decision about how I present my work and where I focus my attention. For more than 10 years I’ve been a Public Speaking Presence Coach through my company, formerly named RiverWays Enterprises. I love working with individual clients in private coaching sessions because our More…
Creative expression to help integrate complex information
Professional development business conferences are wonderful because you get so many opportunities to meet new people and listen to new ideas. But we can become saturated with new material very quickly and then it becomes difficult to absorb and integrate useful information. For this very reason, last year (2010) my friend, colleague and visual artist, Jay More…
Large group conversations
What if the answers to the problems we confront today lie not in bringing in outside experts to tell us what to do, but lie instead in the wisdom that’s already there within the community? How do we make space for the collective intelligence within the community to emerge? Through well-designed conversations that invite all More…
Leadership lessons learned from two weeks of dance improv
I’ve just finished an extraordinary two week “Make a Show” dance intensive with two choreographers, Matt Kent and Renee Jaworski, from the Pilobolus dance company. (This event was sponsored by the Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College and the Lebanon Recreation & Parks Department.) Essentially, 20 of us (an interesting amalgam of movers and non-movers with an More…
Syncing and sourcing
Eileen commented on my last blog and included a link to a video of birds moving in sync with each other. This idea of syncing is fascinating to me. I’ve been intrigued with how flocks of birds (and fish, for that matter) seem to have one mind and sometimes have found myself standing stock still More…
“She made me feel at ease…”
A friend of mine, Stacey, has been a landlord for several years with a number of units to rent. Rentals are in high demand in her neighborhood. When interviewing for new tenants she has a system where she schedules two solid days of interviews a half-hour apart and based on her experience of 10 or More…