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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.
Resonating to Make a Difference: When Zen Leadership Touches the Journey of Vietnamese Leaders
Our colleagues in Vietnam hosted a talkshow called “Resonate to Make a Difference” and announced the full launch of Zen Leadership in their home country in 2026.
In the Age of AI, Vietnamese Leaders Turn Inward to Find a New Resonance
Our colleagues in Vietnam who are preparing for a full launch of Zen Leadership in their country in 2026 guided their community of leaders through a three-part pilgrimage of consciousness: from head, to heart, to hara.
Houston, We Have an Attitude
Here are some inspiring, practical examples from Michael Basil and Kyle Ingersoll of how “training” shifts conversations and heals relationships
A Somatic Invitation to Lead in Low-Trust Cultures
Archana Bharatan, Executive Coach, offers a skillful application of one of the flips we teach in ZL1 that resolves opposition and false choices. You’d be glad you read this.
Embodiment and Uniqueness: Using the FEBI assessment with The Fascinate System™ to Empower Change
Mark Seton, FEBI Certified Coach, shares a great example of how FEBI can be used in combination with other instruments (in this case the Fascinate System™) to help people embody insights.
The Importance of a Psychophysical Approach to FEBI and How Yoga Can Help
How does FEBI support yoga and how does yoga deepen one’s experience of FEBI patterns? Combine a couple of yoga teachers who are also FEBI-philes and some interesting points of convergence emerge.
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.
Distilling Conflation
Michael Basil, ZL Practitioner and FEBI Certified Coach, explores how conflated conversations—where past emotions and present tensions collide—can be unraveled by recognizing energy patterns like flare-ups, ice-outs, and tornado dynamics, offering a path to more mindful, transformative dialogue.
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.”
Wild Leadership: Reconnecting with Our Natural Essence
John Sigmon, ZL Practitioner and FEBI Certified Coach, explores in Wild Leadership how reconnecting with nature—both around us and within us—can enhance leadership by fostering authenticity, resilience, and interconnectedness.
Exploring FEBI in Leadership and Practice
Scott, Jasleen, Kelly, and Nic share their stories and reflections on FEBI, setting the stage for an invitation to a new practice community—where everyone can come together to explore, learn, and grow.
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.
The Roots of Zen Leader - How Sesshin Brings the Flips to Life
Brad Reed, Zen Leadership Instructor, shares his experience of sesshin and how the Flips came to life during the training.
Functional Freeze: Finding My Way Back to Myself
Courtney Amo, Zen Leadership Practitioner, shares her experience of functional freeze. What is it good for and how to rediscover the warmth when it is time to thaw.
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.