(pictured above: Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP - therapist and author of "My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to...

Do you get caught up in the What ifs of worry? What if I can't get everything done? What if our society falls apart? What if my child...

(pictured above - Dr. Natalie Nixon - Author of a NEW (just published last week) important book, "The Creativity Leap") Her work can be...

Greatness is telling the truth & being courageous in pursuit of justice. The worst thing you could tell young people is to be successful...

When you slow down to imagine what's possible, when you give yourself permission to dream, where do you see yourself in five years? What...

.....some deep breaths. I'll join you.... .... I'm writing this at 7am on a Friday morning in my home in Bellingham, Washington. As I...

I invite you to take a few moments for some deep breaths. I'll join you.... .... Three weeks ago, I woke up on a Saturday morning and my...

I invite you to take a deep breath. Really. Take a minute or less for a deep breath. I'll join you. That's how I'm starting everything I...

I was walking with my friend and she read me a text from her ex-husband. She read it with great vigor and emotion and emphasis in...

In our world that is increasingly VUCA (Volitile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous), we can easily and understandably and reflexively...

Do you want to cultivate core skills of intentionality and discernment in this new year?

I recently heard about an experiment involving kindergartners and MBA graduates. The two groups were given Popsicle sticks and adhesive...

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn to do it. - Pablo Picasso It is amazing how Google/Internet/ Mobile...

This past Friday, I co-facilitated "Collaborate By Design: A Liberating Structures Immersion Workshop'' here in Bellingham, Washington....

START CLOSE IN by David Whyte Start close in, don’t take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in, the step you...

A few months ago I was getting my hair cut and the stylist asked me what I do for work. I told her about the basics of improv and how it...

374% more people biked to work in Portland in 2017 than in 2000. This wasn’t mandated by law; nor was it done by sheer will-power. There...

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How do we build resilience? I think it's one of the most vital questions before us, because we are facing so many complex problems that...

We are storytelling creatures. We create stories even more than we realize. Stories about who she is, how he'll never change, what a...