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Stop the killin’ and start the chillin’

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

My friend Aleem is a skilled and sophisticated communicator. He was the spokesperson for the UN Mission to Afghanistan for many years and is now doing the same work in the Sudan. If he wanted to, Aleem could give us a 30 minute speech on the complex dynamics of peace and conflict. But today, on [...]

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Five questions with a change-maker: Michele Lisenbury Christensen

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

One of the things I’m realising, through the discomfort of this uncertain place I’m hanging out in at the moment, is that teaching is a big part of how I now serve. And a very big part of what has helped me grow into myself as a teacher in the past year is Teach Now, a [...]

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Self-care in the itchy-scratchy place

Sunday, September 18th, 2011

So it turns out I’m in good company. There are quite a few of us hanging out in the itchy-scratchy place. Which means it was worth telling the truth about how I’ve been feeling and it is certainly worth sharing a little bit more of what I’ve been learning. I finished my last post with [...]

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Hanging out in the itchy-scratchy place.

Thursday, September 15th, 2011

Uncertainty is itchy. Change is scratchy. Today Pema Chodron told me (at least, her Twitter-bot @PemaQuotes did): Discomfort of any kind also becomes the basis for practice. We breathe in knowing that our pain is shared. I’ve been in plenty of discomfort lately. I’m going to tell you a bit more about that because I [...]

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Is a retweet taking action? How much action is enough?

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

Last week an article published in Psychology Today asserted that black women were less attractive than women of other races. I really don’t want to give too much more attention to the article, nor do I want to debate the methodology of the researcher. But I do want to talk about how I reacted to [...]

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Leaping before I look 2.0: finding faith and playing big

Friday, April 8th, 2011

(This is a revised version of a post I wrote a while ago. I’ve been playing big in new ways since then and – as you do – uncovered new nuances in my relationship with my fears. I’m posting this edited version in honour of the fabulous Tara Mohr and her Playing Big offering) It [...]

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Medicine for when you’re falling apart, scrambling, lost, disappointed & hoping against hope

Friday, March 25th, 2011

Remember when I said that I think we each have our very own kind of medicine for the world? And we make our medicine by learning how to heal ourselves? Well, my friend Jen Lemen has some powerful medicine for you. This is her poem, her gift to you. Her medicine for anyone who is [...]

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Change-maker interview with Jennifer Louden

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011

The change-maker I’m interviewing today is the woman who is teaching me what true servant leadership looks like, and showing me that real authenticity has survived the bastardisation of it’s name and is alive and well. Jen Louden is a teacher, author, leader, change-maker and friend to many women (and men) all over the world. [...]

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How the Christchurch Earthquake is opening hearts and raising consciousness all over New Zealand

Saturday, March 5th, 2011

Guest post by Kara-Leah Grant, creator of The Yoga Lunchbox In conversations with friends and family up and down the country over the last two weeks, there’s a palpable feeling of change in the air. As owner of Dunedin Yoga Studio Emma Furness emailed to me yesterday: This awakening thing is getting closer – someone [...]

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Why I’m not going to South Africa

Wednesday, January 12th, 2011

Remember how I decided to try to raise US$20,000 for HIV/AIDs projects in South Africa? How that was about the same amount that I earned in 2009? How the whole idea scared the sh#t out of me because I didn’t know if I could do it, and because I hate trying something, especially publicly, and [...]

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