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Teaching, Coaching & Facilitating

Teaching and learning are deep, rich, beautiful, and life-giving.

April 18, 2023

I’ve always had a strong desire to explore teaching and learning as deep, rich, and aesthetic processes. Beautiful, life-giving, and creative rather than dry, boring, and joyless. Teaching (as well as learning) requires courage, an open heart, and the willingness to be vulnerable. But instead of noticing and honoring the inherent beauty and vulnerability of [ Read more … ]

Greater wisdom comes through when we admit we don’t know and stop trying to figure it out. 

April 4, 2023

The first time I do something, I rarely do it very well. Holding a learner mindset makes all the difference. We humans are designed to be learners. We’re designed to experiment, make mistakes, try new things, fail, fall down, and try again.  A learning mindset is courageous. It takes us into unknown places with unknown [ Read more … ]

“the group is the art form of the future” ~ jacob needleman

February 28, 2023

The philosopher Jacob Needleman once wrote, “I believe that the group is the art form of the future. In our present culture the main need is for a form that can enable human beings to share their perceptions…and through that sharing, to become a conduit for the appearance of spiritual intelligence.”  I love that. When [ Read more … ]

Breakthroughs happen when we open spaces we didn’t know existed.

January 20, 2023

The teacher is a point of access to something beyond the teacher.

November 16, 2022

For most teachers who love their work, it’s more than a job. It’s a creative outlet, an opportunity to share what you love, and an opportunity to grow. That’s the way it’s been for me, anyway. Burnout is common in the helping professions, but when I approach teaching as a cauldron for my own growth, [ Read more … ]

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