I once attended a seminar in Boulder with noted author, psychiatrist, and professor, Roger Walsh on Awakening Service (Karma Yoga) and Ethics. I particularly enjoyed a simple eight-step process one can use to approach life in a more awakened fashion. It occurs to me that this practice would be ideal for facilitators preparing to approach [...]
You are a Process, Honor it
March 22, 2011 By 8 Comments
It’s About Time
March 8, 2011 By 2 Comments
One evening during the week when I was delivering the Journey of Facilitation and Collaboration Workshops at UW, Madison with my colleagues Darin and Harry, I joined Darin and his friends Bret and Tom for a guitar jam session. During this session, I had a very interesting experience with time. In this week’s article, It’s [...]
Assimilation vs. Accumulation
November 30, 2010 By 3 Comments
As we move into the holiday season, a season in these times that seems to inspire excess, I’d like to rerun an article in service to balance entitled, Assimilation vs. Accumulation. This article explores the challenges we all face in dealing with an overabundance of material and information. It also proposes some strategies for accumulating [...]
Thought Trains
December 27, 2009 By 4 Comments
After an extended, six-month retreat last year, my inner scale tipped. The scale I refer to is the one that tetter totters between the true essence of pure awareness and my personal self. I recognize that any sense of a separate self, the one with problems, issues, goals and dreams has to be constructed and [...]
Facilitating Ego Surrender
December 3, 2009 By 1 Comment
I was talking with my friend Darin Harris this morning about the impact facilitation has on our personal and spiritual development. As we were talking, a metaphor came to mind about the facilitator being an instrument. While I’ve used the instrument metaphor before, today it showed me something deeper than in the past. In this [...]
Transmitting Self-Cooperation
November 3, 2009 By 3 Comments
A couple of years ago, I attended a weekend workshop on the Alexander Technique. The Alexander Technique works with your body awareness to help identify and release bad habits of movement that you have built up over a lifetime of stress. This tool is especially useful for singers, musicians, actors, dancers or athletes to help [...]
Spiritual Growth is not a Project
October 21, 2009 By 6 Comments
All our lives, we’ve been taught what we must do to be successful. Many of these things we’ve learned have helped us get what we want. When it comes to spiritual growth, I see many people trying to apply the same principles. Perhaps they are encouraged by the plentiful purveyors of spiritual products using the [...]
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