So what are some ideas – that I’ve tried and can guarantee work – that might start you on your way of ‘cultivating courage’? Here are a few that I’ve chosen in my first week … Leaving clothes unfolded in my pack sack when I knew they’d be going straight into laundry when I got home from my camping trip. (I’m typically a very neat person.) Repeating the same the next day – this time with the Continue Reading
Abdication of Power – Part 1
We have been taught – at least since several generations back – to abdicate our power and thus our responsibility to others: to others ‘outside’ of us, rather than to rely on and trust our own innate abilities, wisdom, and discernment. We have been taught – without even a word being spoken – at an early age to acquiesce the well-being of our body to a doctor; our teeth to a dentist; our mental health to a psychologist; our Continue Reading
Gandhi – Self-Reflection as a Way of Leading (Part 2)
In 1992, when I returned to my then-home of Vancouver, Canada following my participation in the UN Earth Summit’s Global Forum, I began meeting a quick succession of highly influential people – people who were leaders and initiators of powerful movements. One afternoon I was sitting in a quiet seniors learning centre by the sea (a beautiful heritage building), having tea with one of the founders of the Vancouver Peace March – one Continue Reading
“Lifting the Lid III”
Next Tuesday, January 18, 2011 I fly to “Lifting the Lid III”. Three colleagues and I will ‘enter in’, while nineteen + others consciously, actively support us from ‘outside’. “Lifting the Lid” is the current phase of the ‘global consciousness awakening project’ I’ve been called to initiate and follow my cues to align consciously[1] for the past twenty years. It is an ‘experiment’ – an experiment in “what does it Continue Reading
Exiting the ‘Wheel of Time’
Since 1989 I’ve been consciously aware that I am in an experiment of awakening consciousness. Consciously aware that this is the most exciting time to be alive on planet Earth. Consciously aware that this may be the first time in human history that humanity is able to observe its own awakening - its own unfurling into a new species - it own metamorphosis - its own cosmic magnificence. My story began when I was ten Continue Reading