There are pitfalls in listening to mindfulness tapes in the car. Once I was talking to a woman at a workshop I was leading in Spokane, and she...
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How do you find joy in life when your world is falling apart? Is the nature of a lot of my unhappiness that I expect too much out of life, out of others.
"Generative initiative" is a North Star distinction. We are aiming high to help ensure that we break free of our traditional boxes—that we break out ...
My passion is to support organizational change leaders who are committed to the transformation of the organizations they serve. My definition...
Imagine that you are standing under a waterfall. The water pounds down on your head and shoulders and pins your feet to the ground. The steady rush of water...
The food we eat, for the most part, is driven by internal desires that have disastrous consequences, particularly for our connection to all...
Imagine a spinning top. Stillness is like a perfectly centered top, spinning so fast it appears motionless. It appears this way not because it isn’t ...
Tibetan bowls seem to be all the rage these days. Many people are tuning into their healing capabilities and learning how to use them. The two questions I get all the time are: “How do I choose...
"If we accept that sound is vibration and we know that vibration touches every part of our physical being, then we understand that sound is heard not only through our ears but through every cell...
The Unknown/The Unnamed, Sana Musasama’s provocative exhibition of ceramic sculptures—powerful homage to the victims of humankind’s unspeakable inhumanity to one another...
Dealing with suffering is like handling a poisonous snake. We have to learn about the snake, and we ourselves have to grow stronger and more stable in order to handle it without hurting...
Norbu Damdul, a 19 year-old former monk from Tibet, set himself ablaze yesterday in bold defiance of worsening Chinese oppression. Damdul was heard shouting “Tibet, the Land of Snow, should be independent. His Holiness the Dalai Lama should be allowed to return to Tibet,” before getting doused with water and brutally beaten by Chinese police then hauled away to an unknown location.
A Buddhist story relates the life of the great saint Nagarjuna who moved around naked except for a loincloth and,...
How often are we truly alone with ourselves for any prolonged period of time? How often do we enter into a space of stilled silence? How often do we find sufficient time in order to think and...
Many of us experience that prickly feeling with the body hair standing on end and theBhagavad Gita : Krishna and Arjuna skin looking like “goose bumps” time and again. It is usually associated...
Biology is destiny, declared Sigmund Freud. But if Freud were around today, he might say “design is destiny”—especially after taking a stroll through most American cities. The way we design...
The world’s eyes are on the escalating struggle to defend the collective bargaining rights of Wisconsin public workers. Some people have even called the growing mobilization a transformational movement...
But transformational organizing takes more than growing numbers.
There is stress in the world all around us—financial worries over the economy, fears over global political instability, as well as concerns about the environment and the safety of our food and water...
Artists have lots of problems. We get plagiarized, ripped off by publishers, savaged by critics, counterfeited—and we even get our works copied by "pirates" who give our stuff away for free online...
I believe that much of what causes us to gather around the word “Change” from such diverse walks of life comes from the reality of the world in which we find ourselves. Our problems are outstripping our capabilities to solve them.
Jay Rosen was born in Buffalo, NY, in 1956. Both sides of his family were Jewish immigrants from Poland: one grandfather arrived in North America via New York, the other via Toronto. Rosen's...
Gayle found herself reaching out toward a group member during an exercise about moving intuitively with awareness of others. She later reflected, “I kept reminding myself that I don’t do this...
Sound Healing uses sound to create balance and alignment in the physical body, the energy centres ouncalled "chakras,” and/or the etheric fields. The sound may be applied by an instrument or...
In Deep Economy, McKibben argues against the current neoliberal social order while creating a very approachable prescription for a sustainable society. To McKibben, sustainability rests in a...
