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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.
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.
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.
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.
Three “Downs” to be Up for These Times
Ginny Whitelaw talks about the revelations of our tumultuous times and shares ways to be "up" for the tasks at hand.
Zen, Leadership, and Transformative Technologies
Ginny Whitelaw explores the intersection of Zen training and transformative technology.
Forget Democrats and Republicans – What Kind of Convention are YOU Hosting?
Ginny Whitelaw draws a parallel between political conventions and our internal conventions. My engaging our whole mind-body, we can become more whole and balanced.
Summer In The City: If The Energy Patterns Were Cities...
Ginny Whitelaw reflects on the transformative CitiZen program, where city leaders applied Zen principles to leadership, posture, and breathwork, deepening their ability to navigate urban challenges with presence, resilience, and a renewed sense of purpose.
Springtime For Hara
Ginny Whitelaw explores how, amid rapid advancements in AI and neurotechnology, a different kind of innovation is emerging—one that accelerates human consciousness through practices like hara breathing, leading to the development of a "harameter" that could bridge Zen wisdom with modern technology.