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 space to explore what fascinates me and experiment with new ideas. It’s where curiosity and creativity intersect. Peter Vaill once wrote, “The essential starting point of artistic consciousness is acknowledging that something is more than I can possibly know.” That acknowledgment—the mysterious and juicy place of…
Many of us think learning is about acquiring knowledge, but in reality, learning begins with not knowing. To truly learn, we have to let go of what we think we know and step into the unknown. When we admit we don’t know, we create space for something greater—a deeper wisdom, a larger intelligence—to emerge. Learning…
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