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Hara: The Vital Center Leaders Need Now
Disconnection from our ground of being has wrought the dangers of our times; reconnecting with hara is both vitalizing to leaders now and vital to our collective future.
Zen and the Art of Healing
Read this story about how breath, hara and embodied wisdom helped Cindy Haq, M.D. transform encounters with patients moment-by-moment. Ken Kushner Roshi brings to light the role of hara breathing in our Zen tradition and in transforming the healing practice.
I Am Charlie Kirk And The Child In Gaza: Zen Leadership And Healing
How does Zen leadership bring healing to the world? Becoming the other is a Zen practice that can turn down the temperature on violence and heal divides. Dive into this article to try a practice that you can use in leadership situations where there’s conflict or where you are met with resistance instead of cooperation.
Metamorphosis as Practical Framework for Creating a Sustainable World
There’s a deeper metaphor in the metamorphosis of the butterfly as it applies to societal transformation. Here’s a story of how an emerging alternative food ecosystem in the Philippines is paving the way.
How Leaders Can Be The Signal That Settles The Noise
Zen leadership teachings with their embodying practices cultivate the greatest gift leaders can bring to these chaotic times, namely powerful presence that takes away fear and settles people down.
Personality-Tuned Exercise Can Be Good For More Than Your Health
Personality-tuned fitness activities can stretch our leadership efficacy and be comfortable enough that we’ll stick with them.
How Leaders Can Seed Coherence In A Sea Of Chaos
The leaders we most need for a flourishing future are those who can seed islands of coherence. Here are three steps to doing so.
The Role Of Leaders When AI Can Know Everything
The crucial and uniquely human role for leaders when AI can know everything is to be a living antenna and transformer for sensing and manifesting futures in which life flourishes.
Closing the Great Divides—Starting In Ourselves
Closing the divide within ourselves holds the key to healing all divides and equips us as leaders to sense and create flourishing futures.
Hungry Ghosts Are Busting Government—How Leaders Can Be Ghostbusters
The key to busting the grip of hungry-ghost greed and authentically serving the bigger picture lies in one powerful word: “enough.”
Grounded In Presence And Absence: Zen Leadership For A World In Chaos
Grounding in presence helps leaders face a world of chaos. Further grounding in absence enables them to be a resilient, compassionate and wise presence in its whirl.
Leadership Strategies For Facing Distraction, Disruption And Destruction
From a place of centeredness and wholeness, connected to what’s true and agile in their means, leaders can access the resourcefulness and resilience to face this time.
Five Reasons And One Way To Slow Down In This Sped-Up Time
Smooth leadership is more coherent, resonant, attuned, connected and calm, and a way to access it is as near as one’s next exhale.
Moving in Style: Physical Strategies for the Agile Work of Leadership
The world around us is calling for great agility in leadership. Drawing on our full inner team of energy patterns, we can rise to the call.
Flipping Ordinary Experience Creates Extraordinary Leadership
Flow states can be interpreted as peak experiences “I” have, but something much more powerful is possible when they radically flip our sense of self.
Leaders Who Flip Around Backwards Thinking Can Heal The World
Zen and science show us that egocentric thinking is backwards and can’t possibly be true; flip that around to a true sense of self and we can bring healing into the world.
Joy!—A Vital Tool And Signal For Leaders
Bringing joy to politics or leadership is about more than feeling good, as joy plays a dual role of galvanizing a following and signaling that we’re on the right track.
Politics And Resonance—And How You Can Apply The Same Principle
Examining how resonance works in high-profile political leadership offers guidance to all leaders on how to get it working for them.
Fourth Person Knowing: A New, Yet Old, Way For Leadership Insight
Fourth-person knowing can help us address the intractable issues of today. Here’s a way to access it using Circle Practice.
How You Can Use Thought Strategically—So Thought Doesn’t Use You
We can either use thought strategically to realize heartfelt intents or we can be used by habits of thought to separate from the present moment, causing problems for ourselves and others.