This Gift Won’t Cost You Any Money
After all my years of working with groups and coaching leaders, there’s something that remains astonishingly rare—good listening skills. I realized several years ago that I was a crappy noticer. My epiphany came while playing [...]
What Kind of Emotional Wake Do You Leave?
One of the most impactful things I’ve heard in the last several years is Jill Bolte Taylor talking about the stroke that left her without language for many months. She was completely unable to even [...]
Can You Find Some Wiggle Room?
I’m reminded again this week that life is short. Someone else in my orbit passed away suddenly. We weren’t in one another’s close circles but have mutually admired one another for several years. A few [...]
Paying Attention to Endings
I had the privilege of being with a client this week as they told their team the organization was shutting its doors. Together, my client and I designed the meeting, and I facilitated it. It [...]
Training Isn’t the Answer
It has been a really sad week. There’s nothing I’m going to say here that hasn’t been said, and I’m under no delusion that the national conversation needs my voice. But I have a moral [...]
The Time for Repair is Now
I recently heard that a former one-time client of mine passed away, someone who had come to my office with a relative for mediation. Halfway into our time together, it was clear we were not [...]