wisdom
PASSED FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION, BEING TO BEING
It is interesting to consider – what is the source of wisdom? Perhaps it lies in the pure expression of nature.
Every leader, activist or artist recalls the people and experiences that have transformed them. Below, is a taste of what has been a source of wisdom in my life, and a blog roll of various writings during my time in the Master of Environmental Leadership Program at Naropa University.
- Theory U, Otto Scharmer
- Active Hope, Joanna Macy
- Biomimicry, UoMT
- Gentleness, Precision, Letting Go, Pema Chödrön
Research and Reflections
Building Healthy Learning Communities
The Applied Leadership Project (ALP) is the culminating project for the Masters of Environmental Leadership Program at Naropa University. This is the written and oral presentation of my research.
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Explorations in Human Consciousness
This paper explores the birth, evolution, and future human consciousness and how humans have interacted with the environment over the course of their existence.
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My Fascination with MLK
In my opinion, Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) was one of the greatest examples of human potential. He embodied so many significant quality that we look for in a leader: respect, fearlessness, passion, compassion, humility, and mindfulness, to name a few.
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Honest Abe and Climate Change
Last night, I saw Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln. It was stunning and fantastic. Aside from a few cinematography liberties exercised, it was historically precise. What follows are some of the thoughts that it triggered in me.
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Neuroscience and Group Dynamics
Just like the brain, group work is far from static. It is an ever-evolving matrix of relationships. Messages and roles are constantly changing from person to person, from neuron to neuron.
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Avoiding Nonprofit Burnout
This paper examines the driving factors of burnout within small nonprofit organizations and purposes interventions aimed to create “organization authenticity”, a term inspired from the work of Morris Berman (1981) on body authenticity.
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Invention of Boundaries
You probably know where your property ends and your neighbor’s property begins. Chances are that there is a fence there. If you look around, you’ll notice many boundary markings – signs, fences, and shrubs. We are the only species that have established and enforced such distinct boundaries.
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…and on his farm he had a what?
To meet the needs of a swelling population, farming in the 20th century completely transformed and, unless you only judge progress by the amount of food yielded, not for the better. Here’s a list of the major trends and how to respond with more sustainable practices.
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Selfcare and Worldview
What happens when a young, important movement still lies on the fringe in society? What are the common challenges that it faces? I would like to focus this section on two challenges that are usually associated with the infancy of a movement: self-care and worldview.
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2 + 2 > 4
A contrast to scientific reductionism, systems thinking is the process of examining how parts of system influence each other within the whole system. System Thinkers believe that the relationship of the parts are more important than the actual parts and that these dynamic relationships manifest unpredictable emergent capabilities.
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A World of Cousins
You have 16 great-great grandparents probably born around the middle to late 1800s. If each of 8 couples and all successive generations had 3 children, there would be 648 children in your generation with the same great-great grandparents as you. Go back one more generation to your great-great-great grandparents, and your distant cousins are now 3,888!
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Wisdom of a Tree
An excerpt from Bäume. Betrachtungen und Gedichte by Herman Hesse: “For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone…”
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To Lead from the Heart
The following is my graduate school application essay. It is divided into three categories: Environment, Leadership, and Mindfulness focusing on my intention for entering the program: I seek to learn how to lead truly from the heart.
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