Archive for the Good things category

Awakening

Friday, December 2nd, 2011

Awakening Buff off routine. Polish away habit. Sharpen your crystal mind with silent time. Wake yourself by praying to the gods. Surrender all of image. Let go of your outside eyes. Be a foolish animal, gaping at the forest. Be clumsy and too much and wide-eyed. Kill the thing that pulls back the reins, and [...]

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Peace on earth. Starting with you.

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

Psst: If you are on my mailing list, then you already know all about this. Feel free to take the next five minutes to do something other than read my latest post. Like do a round of sun salutes. Or take ten really deep breaths. Or email someone you love to say ‘You are awesome’. [...]

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Change-maker interview: Emily L’Ami

Friday, November 11th, 2011

I believe we can make all our choices into acts of conscious change. Even the ones that might seem superficial, like what we wear. And as it turns out, ‘what we wear’, like ‘what we eat’, is not superficial or trivial at all. The fashion industry is huge, in 2008 consumers in the UK spent £46bn on [...]

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Maybe Baby. A question.

Monday, October 24th, 2011

I’ve lived in parts of the world where women have little to no control over their fertility. So I know that as a women who can have a full sexual life and also choose whether or not to have a baby I am part of the 1%. And I’m grateful. And still. It’s no easy [...]

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50 Ways to Leave Your Karma – Eric Klein

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

One of the people I’ve been most excited to ‘discover’ this year is Eric Klein. Eric is a teacher, author and wise one. He founded Dharma Consulting to share the wisdom and leadership skills he has learned from four decades of spiritual practice with new and established leaders in Fortune 500 companies, healthcare, municipal, governmental [...]

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Write a new chapter in the story of poverty

Thursday, September 22nd, 2011

Depending how long you’ve been reading along here, you may or may not know that I used to work for Oxfam. And that I think Oxfam does great work – not just great development work, but really great advocacy and policy work. I went to work for Oxfam when I left the UN because I [...]

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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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What is Creative Flow?

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

Alex and I both know this: creative flow is about the body as much as the mind. Find your creative flow with us. You don’t need to be a yogi, a photographer or even be sure yet that you are ‘creative’. You can trust us: you are. Come play with us! Registrations now open through [...]

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Some fabulous people from around the world (wide web)

Friday, June 17th, 2011

I’ve been wanting to tell you about so many things lately that I realised it was time for a kind of a “round-up of fabulous people who I think you’re going to love” post, so here it is. First up, let’s be clear on this, none of these are affiliate links, I’m sharing this list [...]

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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 [...]

Tags: playing big
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