IMPORTANT UPDATE
As of April 2024, my blog has moved over to Substack where I’m co-hosting A Tender Space (together with my business partner at Centre for Holding Space). You can find my new writing plus podcast episodes there, or sign up below to get them in your inbox.
Here’s some of my earlier writing…
100 Years :: 100 People :: 100 Changes
Help me come up with ONE HUNDRED ways we can make the world a better place! Tuesday, March 8th, is the hundredth anniversary of International Women's Day. I'm very excited to announce that on that day, I will be launching my first e-book! Yay! (The above image is a...
Speaking a new language into the corporate world
The language of business and government is largely the language of men. It's language that's been shaped by sports and warfare - masculine arenas. Think about it for a moment - strategic planning, performance reviews, bite the bullet, fast track, jump the gun, keep...
Some recommendations for your learning journey
Last year, my word for the year was journey, and what a journey it was! There was significant learning and challenge and change along the journey, culminating with the end of a career and a big step into self-employment. When I look back on the year, I recognize three...
Are you ready for chaos?
I've been thinking a lot about chaos lately. The brave people who've protested in Tunisia, Egypt, and eventually (hopefully) Libya, have impacted significant change for their countries. Those changes won't come without chaos, however. There will be many days when...
Don’t victimize the victim
"Before you file an official police report, you should know that this part can be very hard on the victim." Those were the words of the social worker called in to council me after I'd been raped. Two police officers and my friend Terence were also in the room....
Let’s stop trying to fool ourselves. It’s not going to be easy.
As my children will attest, some days it takes only a minor stimulus to illicit a rant from me. Today it was this booklet that made its way to the top of our piano - How to Get Good Grades, in Ten Easy Steps. Easy? Really? Now, let's be honest, if you're not...
What makes you cry?
"What makes you cry?" That was one of the questions I posed to the participants of a leadership workshop I facilitated last week. We were talking about our values and how we as leaders model those values. It was part of a series of questions meant to help them clarify...
Retreat
Part of me wants to give you a play-by-play of all the wonderful things I did and thought and saw and wrote while I was away on my solitary retreat. That part of me wants to shout it from the rooftops so that you too will realize how wonderful and truly life-giving a...
What’s love got to do with it?
I have seen love on the face of an Indian professor who gives up every vacation and nearly every weekend to travel by boat to the remote Sundarban Islands where he works to improve the lives of impoverished people. I have seen love in the eyes of an Ethiopian woman...
Joy Journal #3
- Another successful teaching session over. My students are awesome. Really. I've grown quite attached to them. They helped the teacher in me emerge. - A two week break before I start teaching another session (with the same students). - Lots of time to WRITE in the...
Shawnigan Lake, B.C.
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