Friday, March 19, 2010

Reconnecting with our selves, each other, and Earth

CoP15 CoP15

The UN Climate Summit is happening here in Copenhagen. The big march was yesterday... 


Launching the Inner Climate Change conversation in Boston! Here we go! Launching the Inner Climate Change conversation in Boston! Here we go!

Tomorrow I leave for Copenhagen to be part of the People’s Summit that is taking... 


Relationship Economy Relationship Economy

Five years ago I began hearing about the need for new forms of exchange. It was clear... 


Indigenous Voices on Climate Change Indigenous Voices on Climate Change

I recently met Nick Lunch of Insight Share – an organization using participatory... 


Embodied Presencing Practice Embodied Presencing Practice

I had heard of Arawana Hayashi and the Social Presencing Theater she does in collaboration... 


Presencing Foundation Courses Presencing Foundation Courses

Learning Presencing – a combination of being ‘present’ and ’sensing’... 


Theory U – Is this possible? Theory U – Is this possible?

When I first heard about Theory U from Otto Scharmer I burst into tears! “Excuse... 


16 Ways – The Exploration of Opposities with Dylan in NYC 16 Ways – The Exploration of Opposities with Dylan in NYC

Ken Wilber is perhaps the most prolific thinker of our time around consciousness.... 


The Art of Hosting Transformational Leadership The Art of Hosting Transformational Leadership

I am very happy to be part of the Art of Hosting community. We have all been trained... 


Women Moving the Edge Women Moving the Edge

In 2006 I got an email from a friend that invited me to a gathering she was co-hosting... 


Kosmos and the Global Commons Kosmos and the Global Commons

I had lunch with Nancy Roof, the Founder of Kosmos Journal, the leading international... 


Inner Climate Learning Villages and CoP15 Inner Climate Learning Villages and CoP15

Is there a topic hotter (no pun intended) than Climate Change? No. People across... 


Axladitsa – Living Wholeness Axladitsa – Living Wholeness

“I get it!  This is what it means to LIVE with conscious intention and put... 


The Center for Human Emergence The Center for Human Emergence

In 2007 I was invited to attend a Confab – an interactive gathering at the... 


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The Art of Transformation

Singing Again Singing Again

I didn’t sing for 20 plus years. I am a trained singer. My first degree was... 


Nothing more to DO! Nothing more to DO!

I am doing my art journal again. There is so much going on these days in the world,... 


“You Are the Chalice!” “You Are the Chalice!”

During a visionary art workshop, I saw, in my mind’s eye, a healing image of a... 


Creative Expression – Avenue to God Creative Expression – Avenue to God

It has been my life long passion to dance, draw, sing, move, play and be in the joy... 


Lightening up with improv Lightening up with improv

Last night I went to my improvisational acting class. The depth of stuff that gets... 


Art and Collective Creativity Art and Collective Creativity

January 2009 rolled around. It was a whole new year for me. A whole new life. I get... 


Soul Painting Soul Painting

Immersed in an intuitive painting class led by Julie Claire in El Rito, New Mexico,... 


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Expansive Ways of Knowing

Childlike Wonder Childlike Wonder

In high school, throughout college and during my first years as a music therapist, I worked with mentally disabled children and adults, encouraging them to build life skills through the beats and vibrations of music. I always loved being with these ’special needs’ people. They are special indeed. I delighted in how they found joy in the... [Read more of this...]


The Woman Under the Shroud The Woman Under the Shroud

In 2000, a disturbing petition was going around the internet. It explained graphically how women were being beaten, stoned, silenced and mistreated in Afghanistan under Taliban rule. The e-mail was a call to sign a petition stating that it was unacceptable for women, anywhere in the world, to be treated as subhuman and calling for peaceful outrage to... [Read more of this...]


Backyard Enlightenment Backyard Enlightenment

Three hours! How can I walk that long? That was my reaction to the assignment from my Masters program in Transpersonal Psychology. “Go outside for at least three hours, if not eight. Have no plan. Just go where your feet take you. Learn to trust your intuition and pay attention to all you experience.” “I don’t go outdoors!” I thought. What... [Read more of this...]


Maori Egg Hunt Maori Egg Hunt

Years ago I attended a workshop at the Omega Institute in New York titled “Other Ways of Knowing”, led by Jon Broomfield, New Zealander and former head of the California Institute of Integral Studies. Jon showed us a  short film that changed the way I viewed reality. It was film of a Maori elder, (New Zealand indigenous people) walking on the beach... [Read more of this...]


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