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Big Connection in Little Moments
I posted the following on Facebook the other day (edited): I was on the road during rush hour when a bus in front of me was looking to merging back in traffic. It was getting little help or cooperation from the two cars in front of me. They surged forward, narrowing...
Happy Birthday Duane O’Kane!
On his 70th birthday, Duane reflects on his life so far. “When you become aware of the finish line and start to reflect on: what did I leave behind? what is important? You start reflecting on how well you loved.”
We Commit to Continuous and Active Un-Learning…
Many of the skills necessary for unlearning racist structures are the same ones that are necessary for having courageous conversations at home. It means lowering our defenses to listen to hard truths, empathetic listening, and acting from a place of compassion.
It’s Always About Relationship
Following on his last blog about ‘Being Your Best’, Duane delves into the “relational” quality that is essential to any and all evolutionary growth.
Step In. Stay In.
Duane elucidates the very personal and very subtle internal journey involved in choosing to be our best in every moment.
Being At Your Best
Catherine examines what it means to truly be at our best after having just won the WOW Leader of the Year for 2019.
Face Yourself First – Part 3
In part 3, Catherine wraps up this story with a discussion about strategies, including how some strategies can create the very situations we try to avoid. The cry of the overfunctioner is ‘I give and and give, why…
Face Yourself First – Part 2
Continuing… When I was young, I found my refuge in books. I read between the lines of Snow White, Cinderella and later Harlequin: I do not feel good enough, but ‘someday my Prince will come’. I will find ‘the one’, my ‘soulmate’.
Face Yourself First – Part 1
I was one of those little girls who was always on the outside of the group. Through careful study and imitation of the group I could work my way ‘in’, but then I would say or do something that would put me right back on the outside again…