Trust (Vulnerability) Boot camps. Retreats. High ropes. Low ropes. Trust assessments. Trust activities (like being led while blind-folded). World cafes. These are all tools in our facilitation toolbox we’ve used...
As we watched George Floyd’s death and see the spreading unrest as a response to his murder, a question I get is: What does it take to make peace “happen?”...
I was a guest on the inaugural podcast “OPC Radio Connect (recorded February 3, 2020). The DC Office of the People's Counsel produces the show. This first episode turned into...
In our May 2020 Zoom meeting of the North Portal Readers, we discussed “I Can’t Make This Up; Life Lessons” by Kevin Hart (2017). Our discussion leader’s 32-year-old nephew had...
“Major Marco” (Denzel in The Manchurian Candidate 2004) had a palpable feeling that something wasn't right. His internal in-congruence kept him pushing despite his seemingly preposterous claims. He along with...
In "Against Creativity," there is a chapter titled "Politics: Austere Creativity." "Coping" is a creative response to imposed, harsh political conditions. In news reports today, we are reading about how...
My Notebook entry dated August 2, 2013 contains a draft of my ideas.For me, the language of mystics is a language that expresses the inexpressible. Once we go beyond all...
Relate, Relieve, Restore I share how I have been making the “pain in my knees” an “object” of my meditation. “Knee pain” can become an “object of meditation” similar to...
Cryo Tales #5: Sunday, August 12, 2018. My 4th Whole Body Cryotherapy (WBC) session at BikramYogaWorks—Riverdale -- in a chamber for three (3) minutes; the temperature drops to minus 237...
Today, like in my previous two posts, I completed my cryotherapy session around 10:30 am. I’m writing about around 4:30 pm, where I’m interweaving information about the therapy and my...
