Indigenous Voices on Climate Change

I recently met Nick Lunch of Insight Share – an organization using participatory video as a tool to empower individuals and communities. Here is some of what Insight Share says on their site:
“Insight’s Participatory Video methods value local knowledge, build bridges between communities and decision-makers and enable people to develop greater control over their own [...]

Embodied Presencing Practice

I had heard of Arawana Hayashi and the Social Presencing Theater she does in collaboration with Otto Scharmer and Theory U. Everyone raved about the experience. Yesterday I finally got the chance to spend a day with Arawana in her intro class that she presented here in Boston.
I was fascinated by the simplicity of Arawana’s [...]

Presencing Foundation Courses

Learning Presencing – a combination of being ‘present’ and ’sensing’ from Otto is really special. He is one busy person, traveling around the world, but if you can catch him I am sure you will benefit. This training, being held in India, is being co-facilitated by Beth Jandernoa and Arawana Hayashi. I don’t know Beth’s [...]

Theory U – Is this possible?

When I first heard about Theory U from Otto Scharmer I burst into tears!
“Excuse me….but is he really talking about Open Heart, Open Mind, Open Will and Source in the business world and with governmental people!!!  Oh my God. How did he do that? I am so excited. There is hope for the world!”
Otto Scharmer, [...]

16 Ways – The Exploration of Opposities with Dylan in NYC

Ken Wilber is perhaps the most prolific thinker of our time around consciousness. I could get through his earlier works but as the theories became more complicated, reading about them became more difficult for me. I find I learn better through experiencing something in my body. That is why the work of Dylan Newcomb blows [...]

Women Moving the Edge

In 2006 I got an email from a friend that invited me to a gathering she was co-hosting in Belgium called Women Moving the Edge. “I have no idea what that is” I thought “but that is so cool and I know I am moving something, so I am going!”
In February 2007 I attended the [...]

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 [...]

“You Are the Chalice!”

During a visionary art workshop, I saw, in my mind’s eye, a healing image of a chalice being held up by two hands. I was struggling. My mind went to work, playing with line and color, trying to bring that image into form on the paper. The hands I drew were stiff, the chalice lifeless. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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