Singing Again

I didn’t sing for 20 plus years. I am a trained singer. My first degree was a Bachelor in Music and Special Ed with voice as my major instrument. But then I got married.
Why I put my voice and other creative talents virtually away in a box I may never know. All I know, and [...]

Nothing more to DO!

I am doing my art journal again. There is so much going on these days in the world, in my head, in my heart …  I find doing my art helps me work through emotions and get my thoughts clear.
Yesterday I sat at my journal, filled with anger at myself for staying in a [...]

A Question to Stimulate the World

In preparation for the Inner Climate Learning Villages – we are looking for a question that will Stimulate the World!
So I put out a request to the Art of Hosting community. Such rich inquiries came back. Here are a few:
a question that was once offered by Vaclav Havel:
“How do we prepare ourselves inwardly to live [...]

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 [...]

The Art of Hosting Transformational Leadership

I am very happy to be part of the Art of Hosting community. We have all been trained in “the art of hosting meaningful conversations”. Most of the people use these skills in their work – from youth, health care, government and so many more areas where talking to each other and building a collective [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

The Lost Symbol

Dan Brown’s new book The Lost Symbol is causing a stir. No surprise. I couldn’t put down The DaVinci code as it spoke deeply to my love of the meaning behind symbols and the depth of the feminine mystery. It sounds like Dan has his hand on the pulse of the important issues of [...]

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