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Leaders: How Do We Tell The Story Of The Future We Want And Invite Others Into It?
The Leadership Superpower For Positive Change In The Climate Crisis
knowing
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knowing

This delightful shift in Zazen shows up off the cushion in the remaining 23 hours and 40 minutes of the day as trust in myself. I approach my work feeling solid in what I have to contribute, not leaking energy with fear of judgments.

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Leading as a Wave, not a particle
From Ginny, News Marcus Trapp From Ginny, News Marcus Trapp

Leading as a Wave, not a particle

Let that sink in for a few breaths. This is not just a phenomenon of the exceedingly small, but the nature of reality in which we lead, create families and communities, and make our difference. What it shows us is that process of observing is not passive, but a process of resonance or co-vibration that particularizes something by how it registers with us. In physics this is called “collapsing a wave function” where a range of possibilities condenses into a thing upon our pinpointed observation.

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Making the new Year New
From Ginny, News Marcus Trapp From Ginny, News Marcus Trapp

Making the new Year New

By flipping around our usual way of sensing, including our sense of self, we confound our filters, invert our thinking and let the new emerge. Descartes’ famous dictum, “I think therefore I am” flips around into the spacious truth that when we don’t have to reify a self, we don’t have to habitually think the same thoughts. We can put up different antenna and new music becomes possible.

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