It feels good to fight and argue, but when there’s no pressure to convince others or be convinced, we listen in ways that allow us to improve our communities.
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Receiving a big award made me notice how integrity and values shape my life and work, from the scale of me to the scale of communities, neighbourhoods and cities.
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An emotional upset and a ski trip helped me unearth two limiting beliefs about my relationship skills.
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Community has a vital role to play when emergencies arise: to enable transition from what was to what could be.
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When busy rescuing others or looking for others to rescue us, we miss the opportunity to renew ourselves.
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Rescue embodies resilience only when the rescuer takes action the rescued can’t do for themselves (and wants).
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Six ideas and eight suggestions to improve a community’s ability to be proactive, responsive and response-ABLE as the scales of emergencies grow.
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I had an “allergic reaction” this summer to some language people around me are using to invite climate action: “be a first responder.” And so, I sit and write as a means to scratch the itch. What I found: As the scale of emergency grows, the ability of community to be proactive, responsive and response-ABLE becomes imperative.
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Nine practices to see, acknowledge and respond to our uneasy world.
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As Mother’s Day approaches, I want to be more aware of how my behaviour erodes the growth of younger people in my life, especially when I am feeling challenged, hurt, or left behind.
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Mutual agency fosters sovereignty in self and others and enables a generosity that seeds our regenerative future.
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The choice at hand for each of us: Which infection do I choose to spread? The anger and frustration that comes with fight drama, or the generative possibility that comes with exploring conflict?
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I have lost my desire to be in learning spaces that claim to be about community when they are not. I have a shift to make in my approach, as well as name the shift to the people with whom I am creating the learning habitat. The shift I must make is simple: from "me and community" to "me in community".
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Low-grade depression—the words a friend spoke on a call a few weeks ago. It never occurred to me that the word ‘depression’ could apply to me, but I knew to trust the reverberations in my body. It explained how I’ve been feeling for several weeks. And it lead to a big gift in understanding how I “power” myself.
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Our cities are an expansive nestwork of feedback loops. The healthier and stronger the connections are within the nestwork, the healthier our cities. To a great extent, the quality of our cities, and how well they serve us, is up to us because we make or disable the connections within the nestwork.
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The work we do in our cities is changing in our upside-down world. What we do, how we do it, why we do it is in question. There are challenges and opportunities before us. Who do you, and we, choose to be? This is dedicated time to receive and offer support so we can offer our best selves (our work) to our communities and cities.
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