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Prioritizing: How to Decide What is Most Important

by Kate McCracken Prioritizing is always a hot topic. Why? Because the moment we think we have nailed the process, some initiative, change effort, or other life circumstances come knocking down all the dominoes with one small, albeit…
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Holding the Room Without Owning the Outcome | Brave Spaces Part III

Click here for the audio experience recorded by Mindela Mossman:   By: Meghan Clarke Brave Spaces Series Part III One of the hardest and most liberating truths of facilitation, mediation, coaching, consulting, and leadership…
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Brave Space Is the Right Kind of Hard | Brave Spaces Part II

Click here for the audio experience recorded by Mindela Mossman: By: Meghan Clarke Brave Spaces Series Part II My own journey into the arena of brave spaces began long before M E Clarke Consulting existed. In my early twenties, I studied…
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Why Safe Space Isn’t Enough | Brave Spaces Part I

There is no such thing as a perfectly safe space. When we stop promising comfort and start cultivating courage, we create room for honesty, accountability, curiosity, repair, and real transformation.
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Perfectionism Isn’t Excellence. It’s Protection.

Perfectionism is not simply a personality trait. It is a protective response that can quietly undermine leadership, team wellbeing, and our own sense of peace. Kate McCracken explores how leaders can recognize perfectionist patterns, accept…
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Another Somersault: On Becoming, Part III

Editor's Note: Personal growth and change rarely arrive in clean, linear ways. More often, we find ourselves mid-somersault, releasing old identities while trying to understand who we are becoming. This is a reflection on the courage it takes…
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To Face Uncertainty, Follow the Anxiety

The work of leadership is to show up to the moment, and both hold fast to the values and vision of the organization while also remaining nimble and flexible enough to meet that moment authentically. In these times of great change, where so much…
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Change Is Inevitable, How to Make it Tolerable

For years, I walked around telling people how much I liked change. I bore easily and tire of maintaining things. I like newness and the spark of building something for the first time or transforming things for the better. Truth is, I loved changes…
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What Gets You in the Door, Won’t Keep You in the Room: A Reckoning with Burnout

Burnout is rarely a personal failure. More often, it is a signal that the way work is structured, decisions are made, and success is defined is no longer sustainable. The grit that builds an organization in its early stages can quietly become the very thing that exhausts the leader who built it.
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Your Leadership Matters

Your leadership still matters. Your presence, your care, and the way you tend to your organization and team matter. In fact, they matter more than ever. Yes, action is needed, but it may not be the action you think. Often, what is most needed…

Action in Stillness

When the clock struck midnight on January 1, 2026, I was sound asleep. I woke the next morning in a new year, expecting to feel different. Our household had been taken down by the flu over the year-end holidays, and we were only just beginning…

Creating Brave Spaces

Adapted from Beth Strano’s poem “Brave Space” There is no such thing as a “safe space.” At least, not in the way we sometimes wish it could be: a place free from friction, discomfort, conflict, or missteps. A place where no one says…