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 [...]
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 [...]
The promise I made to myself
Three and a half years ago, I brought myself a promise ring. I was visiting Banff at the time, after a business-related road trip through Western Canada. Visiting Banff always brings up mixed emotions for me. I love the beauty of the place, in the middle of the Rocky Mountains, but it holds a sad [...]
Hosting the future that wants to emerge (using Theory U in a women’s leadership circle)
I have the great privilege these days of co-hosting a women’s leadership program that meets every second week in a small town an hour and a half from the city where I live. There are so many things about this that I love, including the fact that I have a regular reason to drive out [...]
My heart longs for home (my word for 2013)
I haven’t been able to write much these past few weeks. My heart has been aching. Christmas has always been about family and at the centre of the family has always been Mom. Without her, I feel like I’ve lost my anchor. This became especially clear to me just before Christmas when I managed to [...]
My heart is broken, but please don’t try to fix it
Half a dozen years ago, I was sitting in a sharing circle where Fidelis, a wise woman from Kenya, was sharing stories of the sustainable agriculture projects she was helping birth in rural villages in Kenya. Everyone else in the circle was of North American descent. As she shared her stories and the challenges her [...]
What if every moment is sacred?
One of Mom’s last wishes was that we, her children, wouldn’t start fighting over anything after she was gone. She’s seen too many families fall apart after the parents are gone and she didn’t want that to happen to us. Fortunately, we like each other too much to stop talking to each other. Another of [...]
The courage to love and the courage to grieve
I sit down to write a blog post, and all that comes out is… I don’t have a mother anymore. I try to write in my journal, and the only words that show up on the page are… I’m an orphan now. I don’t know how to be an orphan. I turn to my work, [...]
Why should we lead with your wild hearts?
The more conversations I have in preparation for Lead with your Wild Heart, the more I am convinced that this work is not optional. This work is critical. This work is what we are all being called to in one way or another. The world needs us to accept the invitation into this work. Leading [...]
My heart out on my sleeve
I want to put my heart out on my sleeve Wear it where the world can see it pulsing. I want to love wildly. To live vibrantly. To speak daringly. To laugh until I cry. To cry until I laugh. I want to believe that my heart can be safe, Out there in the wild [...]
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