Getting to the Bottom of Yourself

As I’m getting to know Madison, I’ve been meeting quite a few new people. When we meet, many of them ask, “What do you do to stay busy?” I used to be a bit embarrassed to answer this question honestly, but lately I’ve been more frank by responding with something like, “Well, I haven’t been [...]

Feel the Fear and Facilitate Anyway

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With Halloween just passed, I thought this a good time to look deeply into the fears we face as facilitators as well as those of our shivering subjects. In this week’s article, Feel the Fear and Facilitate Anyway, a host facilitators express their greatest fears in doing group work, fears most encountered by their participants, [...]

Operating from Center as a Facilitator

This week’s article, Operating from Center as a Facilitator was submitted by Thomas Crum, one of my favorite teachers and authors on centering and the use of conflict as a constructive catalyst for living an authentic and artful life. Everything we do in life, particularly the challenging discipline of facilitation, is improved when we operate [...]

You are a Process, Honor it

As some of you may know, I moved to Madison, WI on a trial basis last July. This trial came to an end three weeks ago when visiting my home in California. Once there, it became clear that I was ready to pack up and make Madison my new “home base.” I loaded a 6′ [...]

Transmitting Self-Cooperation

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 [...]