What’s in the Water?
Guidance for Swimming Against the Stream
In waking up to whiteness, there are questions to answer and ideas to confront. Molly’s insights bring perspective and clarity.
Digg It
DIGG is one of three online community sites I'm exploring these days. (The others are Zaadz and the Integral Multiplex.) At DIGG, users post and vote on news and other content around the Web. A current smattering of offbeat stories includes: The list is dynamic, so by...
Seth Godin on Authentic Blogging
I have the most wonderful assistants. Inessa Rebeyko, who for 6 or 7 months has been optimizing my Web sites with great flair, sent me this note yesterday: When I, inspired by your blog post Libertarianism, Capitalism, and Social Responsibility, surfed the net, I...
How I Came to Be a Coach
September, 1995. I'm in a workshop with Carol Gilligan and Kristin Linlklater at the University of Washington working with voice in just about every sense of the word. It's fabulous. I think we've just completed a movement and narrative process -- a sort of living...
Confessions of a Reluctant Marketer
One disadvantage of getting to know people through Web pages or an e-zine is that folks can get the wrong impression. For instance, some people think marketing comes naturally to me. Nothing could be further from...
I am not being the way I am supposed to be
I am not being the way I am supposed to be. Is it true? No. How do I react when I believe that I am not being the way I am supposed to be? I leave my immediate experience and go into thoughts about my experience. I imagine that I know what other people think about me....
Is coaching for real?
This morning I observed a coaching session that was conducted entirely in Swedish. I speak English, a little Spanish, less Italian, and still less French, No Swedish. Why am I telling you this? Because this experience session affirms for me that, coaching, far from...
Surfing the Edge, Again, Still
I wonder what I had in mind when I titled this entry? According to the date, it was last Thursday (I'm writing this on Sunday), and I remember feeling poised again, still, on the edge of ... of what? Oh yes. On the edge of knowing what I should do. Now there is a...
Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be cowboys…
Copied from a post to the Integral Community Forums, which was copied from an email conversation I had with some integrally oriented friends about recent reactions to posts on Ken Wilber's blog. Identifying details have been removed or changed. Dear etc. etc. etc., I...
The Commodification of Spirit
This topic was posed in the Integral Community Forums. I thought it worth some thought, and here is my initial response. I would begin by drawing a distinction between the commodification of Spirit and exchanging spiritual teachings, resources, supports for a fee. The...