Systemic Constellations

I’m a strong believer in engaging the whole person in conversation.  Verbal discourse is only one dimension of a full conversation and we do a disservice to ourselves and our organization if we don’t engage the other dimensions of knowing that include, the physical, emotional, creative and spiritual. Systemic Constellation work is an amazingly powerful 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…

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…