No matter how much we push, intend and effort, it’s clear that we don’t often have all the answers that we seek. But Something else does. We humans are brilliant when we’re aligned with Something greater than ourselves. We don’t get breakthroughs by thinking harder or better. We get breakthroughs when we open spaces we…
In music, the space between the notes is what creates the melody. The beauty of a piece is formed in the pauses, the spaces in-between. I’ve always been fascinated by these “spaces in-between” and have explored and written about them extensively in teaching (check out my book Getting Messy), art (check out my book Deep…
In a letter to the president of the Fetzer Institute, Jacob Needleman wrote: “[I believe] that the group is the art form of the future. In our present culture, the main need is for a form that can enable human beings to share their perceptions and through that sharing, to become a conduit for the…
Teaching has always been a creative playground for me–a way to explore things that fascinate me and experiment with new ideas. Peter Vaill wrote, “The essential starting point of artistic consciousness is acknowledging that something is more than I can possibly know.” That place of the unknown is mysterious and juicy. We don’t know what…
We may think learning is about knowing, but it’s actually about not knowing. We have to NOT KNOW in order to learn. And when we admit we don’t know, we open space for a greater wisdom to come through. What does ‘not knowing’ look like? 1. Be vulnerable – set aside the desire to control….
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