Learning & Creative Process

How to keep your form when you confront the unknown.
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How to keep your form when you confront the unknown.

Keeping your form when you teach, coach, facilitate, or lead. Whenever we work with other humans, we’re working with the unknown. We can never know what’s going to be thrown at us. What can we do in the face of the unknown? We can keep our form. Long-distance runners reach a point before the finish…

Metaphor connects us with the Divine.
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Metaphor connects us with the Divine.

Metaphor connects our human brain with spiritual dimensions. When we shift from perceiving and knowing with our linear, analytical mind to a spatial, artistic way of knowing based in metaphor, we’re able to access a field of divine intelligence. This was documented in neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor’s book, My Stroke of Insight. But because our…

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Writing a fairy tale is psychologically revealing.

Need a little “check-in” to see what you’re really feeling right now? Taking five minutes to write a fairy tale is quick, easy, and fun! Best of all, its wisdom comes from a place that’s deeper than your thinking mind. Writing a fairy tale will give you answers that you can’t get any other way….

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Make space around others so they can grow.

Space under the surface. Have you ever found yourself saying, “I feel inspired around her” or “I get amazing insights in that person’s seminars” or “I don’t know what you said, but it shifted everything.”? Those are examples of how we (perhaps unwittingly) create space for others’ growth. Magda Cragg said her husband, the poet…

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