Heather Plett
It’s never too late to start
Last night, I was privileged to be present when Neda, a former participant in my Creative Discovery class and Horses & Mandalas workshop, launched her first poetry book, Neda: Whisperings of the Divine. Neda is the same person who gifted me with the beautiful prayer shawl mentioned in this post. Neda is a 68 year [...]
How do we help the men?
Three years ago, I read an article called Boys Don’t Cry, by Richard Rohr. Since then, I’ve been sharing it with nearly everyone I know who’s raising sons. The article speaks of the challenge men face in a patriarchal world… After 20 years of working with men on retreats and rites of passage, in spiritual [...]
“I see beauty everywhere”
Like many Canadians (and people from all over the world), I have fallen in love with astronaut Chris Hadfield in the last four months. Not only is he an exceptional human being (Canada’s first commander of the International Space Station, a gifted musician, and a gifted photographer) he brings us all back to something that [...]
The unfinished business of living
Around this time last year, I finished what I thought was my final edit on my book before starting to figure out how to get it published. Not only did I finish it, but my friend Segun shared the first 5 chapters of it with his advanced graphic design class and gave them the assignment [...]
On surrender, trust, and abundance
Last Friday was a bad day – one of the worst I’ve had in a long time. I spent a lot of time worrying and stressing and trying to control the outcome of things that were outside of my control. I also spent a lot of time beating myself up for doing these things (because [...]
Come wander with me… and hear the story of an encounter with a deer
This weekend was magical – the kind of beautiful Spring weather that brings hope back to the prairies. It’s been a long, hard winter here, and Spring has never been more welcome. Best of all? I finally had time to enjoy it. I wandered in the woods, visited the labyrinth, took pictures of the first [...]
On leaning in and leaning out and walking out and walking on
I’m a statistic. I’m one of the women Sheryl Sandburg and others talk about who don’t, in their opinion, help the cause of feminism. I made it all the way to the glass ceiling, peered through the cracks, decided I didn’t like what I saw, and walked out. I’m a “walk out who walked on.” [...]
Re-Imagining Leadership for Our Time – Free Call
“I’m finally beginning to realize that I’m a leader.” Those are the words I heard not long ago from a woman who’d just finished the four month leadership program I was co-facilitating. She was an incredible woman doing great things in her community, including lobbying to save a local nature trail, but she’d never thought [...]
A circle of connection
I am home tonight, for a quick stopover in between hosting a women’s retreat in the woods and then traveling tomorrow (after teaching one of my weekly classes) to Minneapolis for an Art of Hosting training. My life, these days, is all about hosting meaningful, heart-based conversations, whether they take place in the classroom, at [...]
My roots are showing
There’s a ridge that runs across the prairies. It was once the beach of the prehistoric Lake Agassiz. Fed by glacial meltwater at the end of the last glacial period, its area was larger than all of the modern Great Lakes combined, and at times it held more water than contained by all lakes in the world today. It [...]
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