Any anger that you've felt and not expressed - ever - is stored inside you, now. Let's shine a flashlight and gently uncover it. 'Life Wheel' Take a piece of paper and draw as large a circle as you can on it. Divide this circle into eight 'pieces of pie' - with one horizontal line running across it, one vertical line running from top to bottom of it, and these four quarters divided again in half. Eight pieces of pie. These are Continue Reading
Anger and Humanity
Humanity is infantile in its relationship with anger. We discovered fire - thousands of years ago - and yet we haven't mastered anger. Our lack of understanding and respect for anger cripples us - individually, collectively and in relation to our environment. We lash out and we lash in. We do not - yet - use anger constructively as our ally. This is what this book is about. Changing this. Teaching humans how to befriend their anger - Continue Reading
The Power of Anger – Introduction
If only we could access our anger and not be afraid of it … If only we could clear out our vast reservoirs of unexpressed anger … We could change the world in an instant. A mere blink. Anger is the most misunderstood of all the human emotions. And it is this very misunderstanding that is holding us back in our evolution as a species - and in the dawning of our co-creative relationship with the environment. If only … We can … Continue Reading
Underwhelming the Overwhelm – Part 1
In 1992 (some of you may not have been born then!) I felt called to participate ‘live’ in the most important global gathering of the century – the United Nations Earth Summit, to be held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. As I recall, some 180 heads of state gathered (an unprecedented showing) to discuss the critical implications of human development on the environment. Leading up to this monumental event, I noticed that something was Continue Reading
Activism with Heart
In the ensuing months following the UN Earth Summit I enjoyed a wave of direct contact with activists in many fields, including the environment, human rights, women's issues and more. To me, these were all spokes of the very same wheel. I had not worked directly with activists before. This was at the height of the road blockades in various old-growth forests in British Columbia - richly bio-diverse terrain which was being Continue Reading
H.O.P.E. = Healing Ourselves and Planet Earth
The contrast of doubt is hope. What will it take to compel humanity from complacency and despair into solution-focused action to resolve our global environmental and economic crises? Wherein lies the key to widespread peace? How can we leverage ourselves – individually and as a species – into truly living our potential? * Awareness * Vision * and Will Here's a roadmap for igniting your hope and directing your Continue Reading