Opportunity/Threat

11 Apr

Posted at 06:06h in change-agent, Glimpse into Me, Opportunity/Threat, Social-Emotional Leadership, SOMO Leadership by

This is a keynote presentation I gave last week in Oaxaca, Mexico at a conference that brings together social entrepreneurs from around the world working on cool ideas to solve the worlds' problems. Here's what I said (and my slides follow): This is my brother Todd (put up image of his picture and the year of his life 1971)—born 1971, probably a little taller than me – I wish you could hear his laugh --- a guy who knows pure joy and would get that ear to ear grin; lots of fun, handsome, confident, wise.…sooooo creative, a brilliant piano player, visual artist, a...

17 Jan

Posted at 14:32h in Cognitive-behavioral, Inspiration, Opportunity/Threat, resilience by

[caption id="attachment_996" align="alignleft" width="300"] Thank you to my dear friend Ruth Marcon to bring these words to my life - alongside so much other richness, depth.[/caption] Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its own focus....

28 Oct

Posted at 19:59h in Glimpse into Me, My life, Opportunity/Threat by

[caption id="attachment_947" align="alignleft" width="225"] I dressed as a Human Sparker, lady style.[/caption] The last time I dressed as a woman I was in high school. I was Linda Richmond and my friend was Barbara Streisand. We went all coffee talk a la Mike Myers on Saturday Night Live. (Mind you this was before I came out of the closet.) It’s been a good 17 years (eek!) since I put on a dress. For the past several years, I’ve had a hankering to do it. Why? Just a sense that it would be good for my well-being to explore and own my feminine...

07 Oct

Posted at 06:30h in abundance, Cognitive-behavioral, Opportunity/Threat, Uncategorized by

How sweet it is to be in flow to have a sense that it's all working out. How easy it is to forget to fall asleep to what I know: That it's all a choice -- opportunity or threat How I perceive What I believe. How I feel What I feel When I feel If I feel I must feel. It's not in thinking. It's in the feeling behind that thinking The viscerality is sweet....

16 Apr

Posted at 09:03h in Action Research, Glimpse into Me, Opportunity/Threat, Positive Psychology, Social-Emotional Leadership, SOMO Leadership, Uncategorized by

I've been sleeping on other beds since March 24 (keep your mind out of the gutter), as I've traveled the east coast to work on related projects: systems interventions using the SOcial-eMOtional model of change. I've also spent quality time with family, friends and dear colleagues -- sometimes they're all rolled into one -- and am coming back home to Cleveland today feeling refreshed and reenergized. While my bed is in Cleveland, I realized something on this past trip: that I have homes in other places, too. I know what they mean when they say: home is where the...

25 Jan

Posted at 20:47h in Glimpse into Me, Opportunity/Threat, positive place by

[caption id="attachment_734" align="alignleft" width="135" caption="Taken with my iPhone from the beach."][/caption] I am still savoring a long weekend in Vieques, an island off Puerto Rico, a place I have been wanting to visit for awhile – a magical place, surrounded on one side by the Caribbean, the other by the Atlantic, rich and bombastic in history (the US Navy used it to send test bombs for a long time until community organizing ended that nonsense several years ago) and home to the world’s largest bioluminescent bay. I’ve been wanting to Vieques for several years– have had a pull, a yearning...

18 Nov

Posted at 21:50h in Glimpse into Me, Opportunity/Threat, positive emotion, Positive Psychology by

[caption id="attachment_681" align="alignright" width="224" caption="Saw this in the room @ the most amazing learning labs to date (Cleveland, Nov. 16)"][/caption] Had the most amazing week. Feel definitely back into the big V - where my energy field is up, uP, UP - and things are happening in my life. Amazing conversations. Energetic learning labs in Cleveland and New York. Alignment with my purpose and my work. Coached my first couple. Deposited money in my account (literally & figuratively). A drive along route 80 with a new friend-Maya Angelouesque (a poet + a humanitarian) -- and with no speeding tickets! Pure positive energy (well,...

12 Nov

Posted at 18:53h in Opportunity/Threat, Social-Emotional Leadership, SOMO Leadership by

[caption id="attachment_667" align="alignleft" width="224" caption="I sat myself in the Rodin room, all glass, and particularly interested in The Thinker."] [/caption] Today, 11/11/11, at 11:11 am, I found myself in the Cleveland Art Museum. I sat myself in the Rodin room, all glass, and particularly interested in The Thinker. I have my nana's copy of this sculpture in my house.  I love nana's wisdom. And -- as I grapple with over-thinking, under feeling in my life -- I am learning more ways to switch my story to something more authentically positive than the recurrent negative banter. Remember, we're built for the threat, so below our level of...

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