Category: Leadership
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Horse as Co-Facilitator
This article in the August issue of “O” magazine is about my amazing teacher, mentor and friend, Koelle Simpson. It is through Koelle’s Equus Coaching program that I am learning to incorporate horses as co-facilitator into my coaching and group development work. To learn how you can participate in a session with a horse as…
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Trusting and Saying Yes..
In early February of 2013 I drove to the San Luis Obispo airport to pick up a woman I had never met and never spoken to on the phone. She was arriving for the 2013 Equus Practitioners training program at North Star Ranch. Based on a gut feeling that something amazing was to happen, I…
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Being Present
Developed for the Crawford Collaborative Consulting Retreat, June 20-22, 2013 In this moment I will bring my whole being—body, mind and spirit—to the here and now. This moment originates and lives deep within me. I enter the present moment by grounding myself. I feel the earth beneath my feet, the sun on my face, and…
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Seeking change in others?
When I do my first assessment with a new client, they typically tell me all the things about others that they wish would change. They are hopeful my work will focus on fixing “them”. The most powerful thing, and in fact the only thing, you can do to manifest change in someone else is to…
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Nothing has any meaning EXCEPT the meaning I choose to give it.
This is a new learning for me and it has been such an empowering, freeing lesson. Just think about it, “Nothing has any meaning except the meaning I choose to give it.” A great many “things” happen around me, to me, in relation to others, in relation to myself. And I alone get to create…
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Cool new resource for facilitators, trainers and coaches…
Project Adventure, a world leader in training experiential based facilitators, is launching a new resource-filled site. There are two levels of participation. Registered users have access to videos, activities and more. In a few weeks, a subscription level will be launched where PA’s library of activity and facilitation books will be available for free to…
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“I want to spend my life working with people I enjoy”
Bart Crawford, founder/CEO of Crawford Collaborative Consulting, said these words as he was creating his company, an organization comprised of highly skilled, like minded consultants. This evening while speaking regarding the first CCC Consultants retreat, Bart said, “I’m bringing this group together because during my career, these people have lifted me up, they challenged me…
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Ready for Virtual Hugging?
Yesterday I was reminded of the magical value of technologies like SKYPE. I am presently in New England on a combination work/family trip and spent time at the offices of one of my consulting clients, High 5 Adventure Learning in Brattleboro, VT. Because I’ve been working with this amazing group via SKYPE since September, it…
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Delving into the Spectrum of Trust
There is reoccurring theme cropping up in my leadership coaching work – trust. Lack of trust, fear of trust, loss of trust…all are words and phrases my clients use consistently. Not a new theme for sure. There are volumes of books and videos and advice and parables developed around the need for trust, how to…
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What pathway will you create?
We are the engineers, construction crews and ultimately the trail builders of our own pathways through life. As we put one foot in front of the other, the energy of our intentions is project out ahead of us, creating a path of ease or a path of limitations. If you are seeking a rough pathway…