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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…
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Significance and Value

Have you ever spent time looking at individual grains of sand up close? Microscopically - wow! Even to the naked eye, they are remarkably different and beautiful. All together with the other grains of sand, they make up the beach. None of them…

A Reflection on Becoming

...just when I think I’ve made it, when the ground seems stable & the horizon bright, I somersault again. Sometimes the somersaults are more discombobulating than at other times, bringing me  straight to the underbelly, to the depths…
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Fifteen Years of Learning…and Counting!

It’s almost unfathomable that this small, impactful practice has existed for 15 years. After years of working with others, in 2008, I set out with a fierce independence to create this practice. To say that it - that I - have morphed and grown…
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Thoughts on Consumption

Lessons from a Weekend Trip to the Mall A few weekends ago my husband and son were out-of-town. When they’re gone my daughter and I typically have a “girls weekend.” Usually we cook one of her favorite meals or order takeout and watch…
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Reflecting on Emergence in my own Life: Embracing the Knowing, Not Knowing and Inner Knowing

“When you know what you do not know, you have knowledge. That is the truth of it." - Richard Wagamese A Confession As is likely the case for most of us, I have found myself exhausted and dog tired many times over the last two years.…
I, too, am racist
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I, too, am Racist

I, too, am Racist Meghan Elizabeth Clarke 41. White. Cisgender. Heterosexual. Not Exempt. “Do I fit the description? Many of you who know me personally would say I don’t— I’m exempt from the racism, prejudice, and bigotry directed…
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Not Exempt.

Kamaria Wilson. 26-years-old. Black. Female. Do I fit the description?             Many of you who know me personally would say I don’t— I’m exempt from the racism, prejudice,…
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Why Utilize a Virtual Producer?

When you are running a virtual meeting, it is difficult enough to worry about how a team will communicate and what will be discussed without getting into the technical aspects. Trying to navigate screen sharing, breakout rooms, and polls while…
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Tools for Trauma

Capacitar, an international network working in more than 35 countries, specializes in teaching and sharing wellness practices to empower the citizens of the world. Inspired by their work, mission and dedication to wholeness, we are sharing some…