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Zen and Crowd Control
Jo Ann Preston compares tips to protect oneself in a crowd to the foundation s of Zen Leadership.
The Best Leadership Strategy For Our Time—It’s Simpler Than You Think
Imagine you had a child who was entrusted with the family fortune—generations upon generations of good investments and stewardship amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars—and this child managed to blow through it in one year.
The Flip In Leadership Needed To Save (Ourselves On) The Planet
Dr. Ginny Whitelaw explores the climate crisis through the lens of biodiversity loss. There are many steps to take and the first starts with leadership.
The Messy Middle
Jen Ayres writes about her zen training and how it helps with the "bleeding from the eyes" problem.
Being Bodhisattvas
Jeff Nytes invites us all to become bodhisattvas. This way of being could have a great impact on us all.
Recharging Yourself As A Leader—3 Laws Of Managing Energy
Energy-infused leadership development could be called version 3.0, which both vitalizes leaders and guides them in making their vital difference in the world around them.
Service-Filled Life
Here in the UK, the past ten days have seen an extraordinary outpouring of grief and sadness following the death of Queen Elizabeth II. During my own life, I have promised to serve the Queen on two occasions.
5 Degrees Of Connection: Which Support You As A Leader?
Dr. Ginny Whitelaw writes about Ken Wilber's Integral Theory. There are 5 stages of connection. Which stage are you in?
The Gift of Time
Our days are usually filled with so much doing that stopping is difficult and must be intentional. Sometimes, however, pauses are thrust upon us often through no fault of our own, but through an accident or illness, the pause comes. For some of us COVID was this pause, but for others, we only got busier.
Facing An Inconvenient Truth Or Inconvenient Consequences
Dr. Ginny Whitelaw writes about the 4 energy patterns we all have access too. How can they help support you?
Leadership Development 3.0—Energy Included
Energy-infused leadership development could be called version 3.0, which both vitalizes leaders and guides them in making their vital difference in the world around them.
What is Self-Transcendence?
But, for those singular moments when my legs would gain speed and every part of my body would move further and further forward, gaining momentum – I knew what it was to feel connected to all, connected to my true self, connected to nature, connected to something bigger than what I thought of as me.
Saturated with loss
On my kitchen windowsill is one of my grandmother’s orchids. I brought it home after she passed away earlier this year as it wasn’t faring so well without her particular care and attention - I understood how it felt. Although I’m still a newbie gardener and have zero experience with orchids, it started to revive and I felt the joy of her presence again.
Becoming The Future We Want
Energy-infused leadership development could be called version 3.0, which both vitalizes leaders and guides them in making their vital difference in the world around them.
What Globalization Taught Leaders—And What They Need To Learn Now
Energy-infused leadership development could be called version 3.0, which both vitalizes leaders and guides them in making their vital difference in the world around them.
Making Peace in the War of Perfectionism
But in some ways, it can still be beautiful. Just like the Japanese art of Kintsugi, where we put broken pieces of pottery together with gold, there is simple beauty beyond perfection in embracing our imperfections and flaws as artfully raw and human.
Leading As A Land Grab Versus Leading As The Land
Dr. Ginny writes about two kinds of leadership, one that takes and one that recognizes the give and take.
belonging
I am learning about belonging. The teachings of belongingness have come to me slowly from many wise people, communities, and nature. These teachings over the years are like walking a labyrinth, leading me towards the center and away, and towards the center and away from it again and again. A journey.
Depression: weird friend, good teacher
In this series called "Stuff I'd Rather Not Talk About," Rebecca Ryan Roshi offers her Zen perspective on different everyday experiences of being human. This month her talk is: “Am I Depressed?”If you or someone you love needs mental health help, please use the Mental Health hotline or its equivalent in your country.
