I’m just back from a long overdue in-person gathering of facilitators from 22 countries and my cup is full.
You probably don’t need me to tell you about the importance of social connections to our wellbeing. A robust network of strong, medium and weak ties are critical to people’s happiness. (I was going to link to articles here to prove this point, but there are honestly too many. Ask ChatGPT). Loneliness is bad for us.
Continue reading “Craving Connection”My mom and my four-year-old granddaughter Tatum are having an ongoing conversation these days about the difference between needs and wants. A recent installment went like this:
Grandma: “I’m going grocery shopping, Tatum. Grandad asked me to get him some ‘wants’ not just ‘needs.’ What do you think I should buy him?”
Tatum: “Definitely cookies.”
As I write this, I am preparing to head to Heartwood Farm and Cidery tomorrow for the first full day of our new Four Seasons of Transformation program. Although it’s early spring on the calendar, it’s late winter based on the vestiges of snow still on the ground and the cool temperatures that are lingering.
Continue reading “Rewilding”Metaphors are helpful until they’re not.
I’ve previously written about the limitations of the chrysalis metaphor to help us understand human transformations. Unlike a caterpillar, that fully dissolves into goo before emerging as a wholly new creature, people navigating change tend to bring parts of their past identities with them even as they add new elements in new seasons.
Continue reading “Grafting”Leveraging our imagination to create our next chapter, organizationally or personally, is not about “rainbows and unicorns.” In fact, it rarely requires trying to think up something the world has never seen before. More often, imagination is an extension or new application of something we’ve experienced in a different context.
Continue reading “Imagine What’s Real”