It’s been five weeks since my last treatment. My friend Barb says I need to post so you know I’m alive.
I am.
Alive. Report: For two-three hour stretches I feel completely “normal”. Not “new normal”, just normal. Each day I hit the wall-of-fatigue and have to get horizontal. This can happen when I wake up, or in mid-afternoon or anywhere in between. Read More →
If we are going to save our planet and our species, I believe each of us must make a personal commitment to leadership. But being a leader in this time does not mean gathering and gearing an army. Carol Pearson’s talk at the recent Pacifica Institute conference has changed my thinking about leadership forever. In fact, my head is still swimming! Here’s some of what she said:
We are in the midlife crisis of our species. We have realized we are mortal, and that we have placed our planet in danger. Each of us must individually and uniquely consider: What is my calling? What am I to do?
More wisdom from the workshop I attended last weekend, Transforming Leadership, hosted by the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpenteria, California.
The Friday evening speaker, Betty Sue Flowers, was familiar to me as one of the co-authors (with Peter Senge, among others) of Presence, which informed our work here at The Canoe Group. She was the speaker whose thinking “called me” to attend this conference. She is currently the Executive Director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library at University of Texas, and works on global scenario planning for an astonishing array of clients.
I am one month post-chemo. This past weekend my friend Kathy and I shared, along with 170 others, a conference on Transforming Leadership, hosted by the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpenteria, California. We met many fine human beings, and heard some extraordinary speakers.
So much of what was shared seems crucially important. And so I’m taking my notes from the conference and transcribing them for you. I will be sending out one speaker’s notes each day this week.
Emails and phone calls are welcome. I need to ponder what I heard, so I am sharing the things that resonated – said more clearly than I am able. Read More →