Mindfulness
The Heart of MYL: The 3Chair Model
Mediate Your Life (MYL) began in 2002 as a co-creation with my dear colleague Ike Lasater in the work of Nonviolent Communication (NVC). For me, MYL arose from a deep desire for connection and wellbeing in the midst of intense conflict and shattering loss in my childhood, and later, in a profound existential grappling with…
Read MoreFaith and Courage
I want to write about faith and courage, and share with you about a particular core conflict dynamic with my wife Schena that has been quite repetitive and challenging for us over our now almost 19 years of marriage. I have grown enormously over the years learning how to truly live and apply the skills I…
Read MoreReturning Home
I’ve lately been thinking back on my childhood and remembering how I would look to Nature and Life for a mothering spiritual presence that was absent in physical form. I’m sure I didn’t think of it this way then, but as I look back I believe that’s what I was doing. It has been with…
Read MoreThe Future of Democracy
“It is for us the living… to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which [others]… have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the…
Read MoreCare for us, and them, during these difficult times
As we humans deal with the global challenge of Coronavirus, I am seeing the way systems here in the U.S. are set up and functioning in ways that make the non-wealthy particularly vulnerable. The strong government support and social safety nets we had decades ago have been drastically weakened over time, and now as this…
Read MoreEmpathy and Mindfulness with Inner Conversations of Fear and Anxiety
I am wondering how you are doing with the impacts of the Coronavirus? How intense is the fear and anxiety for you? Are you scared about protecting and providing for yourself and those you love? As we humans deal with the intensity of this challenge that Nature is bringing to us, it is so easy…
Read MoreSearching Together For A Way Forward
In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in a dark wood where the true way was wholly lost.–DANTE Have you had times in your life when things seemed dire and impossible to resolve, where every direction you could imagine had consequences you deeply didn’t want? The mind goes round and round…
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