SOMO Leadership Tag

26 Dec

Posted at 10:09h in Coaching, Flourishing, Goal Setting by

Here's a quick tip to ring in the new year with clarity & purpose: Spend some time reflecting on 2011 with an appreciative lens. What are you grateful for? Essentially, list all of the good things that have come your way and savor them. Really get specific here and list as many good things as you can. Here's a good article on savoring. And a good segment on why gratitude is important that I recently saw on CBS news. Look forward to the new year and ask: "What do I want more of in my life?" When you think what you don't want,...

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,...

14 Oct

Posted at 15:35h in Action Research, Opportunity/Threat, Positive Psychology, Thoughts-Action, Workshop by

Last Tuesday evening I gave a talk at NYU Langone Medical Center for Faces: a nonprofit center to improve lives of people affected by seizures and epilepsy. The program last week, Caring for the Caretaker, attracted 200 people, many of whom were parents of children with epilepsy, and some were patients themselves. What happened though was quite unlike anything I’ve experienced before as a facilitator: resistance writ large across a crowd of folks up against real stinkin’ conditions. “Who will pay the medical bills?” “Will he ever be able to ever live alone?” “I never know if my son’s next seizure will...

29 Sep

Posted at 21:01h in Action Research, Thoughts-Action by

Reminds me of what I've been experiencing + writing about this month: Evolution/growth/success is not linear (if you do this, then you get that). It's spiral. Requires a full range of emotions, including the ones that don't feel so good. Gotta go through it to get through it. Takes multo amounts of allowing, loving, and being present, without judgment, of oneself. Of others. It's all part of the same cycle and with conscious awareness and emotional intelligence, we can feel that judgment not resonating with our higher selves. It's fear surfacing as a protection mechanism. But really now: how's that workin' for...

10 Sep

Posted at 09:17h in Positive Psychology, Workshop by

and the amazing Emiliya Zhivotovskaya . . . in NYC this fall . . . three Sunday afternoons (Oct 23, Nov 20, and Dec 4) . . . in an experiential learning lab at the NYC Open Center . . . which will leave you feeling energized, engaged, and alive! From the Open Center Catalog: The dynamic new field of positive psychology uses rigorous research to understand happiness and well-being and is expanding rapidly worldwide. In this lab, participants can enter this psychological revolution—a scientific movement helping people flourish, become happier, and be more alive. The program provides tools to measure our baseline happiness, well-being,...

25 Aug

Posted at 12:49h in My life, Positive Psychology by

Ever get the feeling that you don't know who you are? What you are? Where you are? I'm feeling this now as I transition to Cleveland and sort out the next phase of my life. Of SOMO. And beyond. Thank goodness mercury is coming out of retrograde on the 26th, which means clearer clarity, clearer communication, and clearer collaboration are on its way. Patience, Louis. ("I'm workin' on it!") Collaboration is the name of the game -- and what positive psychology purports is just that: putting aside ego (am workin' on this too), embracing individuality and diversity at the same time and realizing we...

13 Jul

Posted at 20:31h in Positive Intervention, Positive Psychology, Social-Emotional Leadership, SOMO Leadership, Uncategorized, well-being by

I drove 400 miles to Cleveland, Ohio yesterday to continue a newer chapter of my life called "My Dreams are Coming True." I swear, people--this stuff works! It's happening in my life and it's because I'm learning to think differently. Trust me, please. I'm not just talkin' smack. But let me tell you, the past few weeks have been filled with mixed emotions. Lots of anxiety was coming up for me in New York. (I'm learning too that my fear shows up in strange, strange ways . . . almost hard to notice in real time, which is why hindsight is a beautiful thing.)...

04 Jul

Posted at 15:48h in Flourishing, neuroscience, Positive Intervention, SOMO Leadership, Uncategorized by

[caption id="attachment_535" align="alignright" width="157" caption="Shot on my run one morning along the Bosphorus River."][/caption] I'm just returning from Turkey, where I spent just five days in Instanbul, an amazing place on so many levels--rich with history, faith (of all kinds), and beauty beyond imagination. I was invited to facilitate a SOMO Learning Lab for 30 pioneering change-agents (coaches, HR directors, business & media leaders, university professors) in a 2-day experience we called Engaging Leadership With Positive Psychology. The program was stamped by George Mason University's Institute for Leadership Excellence and its Director, Fran Nurthen and I co-facilitated. We used my SOMO Leadership Model as the...

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