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Creating sustainable change, creating what we want
In the previous post, we discussed separation, the first of three stages of change. Here we will move into the second stage, transition, or as others call it, liminality[i]. As you let go of one connection or situation, there is a moment you are not holding on to anything, or it feels no one has a hold…
What do we all want – and resist? Change. We want to leave what is not working. Maybe it did work, but we reached a point where it is no longer working. It could be the desire to leave home, a relationship, or a job. The deeper question is, what are we leaving beyond the…
Twenty-five years ago, getting pissed off sitting in a Sweat Lodge next to a man who could not sit still, I thought, “WTF, can’t this man just relax?”. It took everything I had not to say something – then suddenly, the power of the Sweat Lodge came through. In the next moment I realized not…
I remember moving to Boulder, Colorado, in 1976 with no money, friends, or work. After living in a youth hostel with snoring men and working in a laundry, I got a job at a construction company. Within a few months, as a foreman leading the crew, I arrived before anyone else in the morning and…
In the mid-1990s, my business Paul and I were building the Scottsdale Institute for Health and Medicine in Arizona. John Rattenbury, the lead teacher at Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s school in Scottdale, was our architect for the project. I remember John explaining to me how acoustic resonance works. Wright designed the beautiful Gammage Theater at ASU with a large…
Looking out my windows covered with bars, I wondered what brought me to feel locked up. I stood there in pain, at the beginning of a long journey of discovering how to connect to myself and others. Little did I know the recent events I’d endured were exactly what I needed to learn how to…
