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In Celebration of Delicious Friendship

Today it was my friend Wendy. We go back ten ish years. It’s a bit hard for me to remember not being in such delicious friendship with her.

Today it was a zoom call. A spacious one. To dwell. To share stories. To find the core of what we so often alchemize together.

  • the dance of changing the world and changing self
  • the delight of playing big in the world and playing only in this now
  • the phrase, “…I do my work locally; it’s the only place I can do anything…”
  • the phrase, “…brave enough…”

I have so long lived, worked, and communed with people that lift up the most lasting in life and in spirit.

My buddy Chris used say that “friendship is our business model.” Yes. And delicious friendship that lives in the words and so beyond the words, it is our creating-life model.

A bow of appreciation.

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Loving The Vastness Of What is Near

Butterfield Canyon, Utah hiking, vastness

Dana and I hiked this weekend. Butterfield Canyon, a place that is near us. We don’t live in this canyon. Yet we live near it, ten minutes from trail beginnings.

I love the surprise — vibrancy of fall colors — that shows up in getting close. I love the vastness — vista that invites spaciousness. I love the vibrancy and vastness of companioning.

And I love when it collages together on a late September weekend. To inspire a late September week of much project tending and project learning.

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We Need Questions To Dream, And To Do

Came up with a little combo yesterday.

Used a cafe format to invite the social and conversational format for dreaming. Tow rounds it it. . It was in the context of “when we need to dream what we don’t know how to dream.”

And then for the 3rd and 4th round shifted to pro-action cafe format. Three people offered to workshop what had arisen from the first two rounds of Dream Big. They became table hosts.

Fun to nuance format. Great to bring energy of dreaming and doing.

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Connection First; Then Go Deeper

I’m glad to be hosting a leadership cohort this week. With my pal, Glen.

There’s an operating mode that so often I rely upon.

  1. Connection First — Make it easy. Partner conversations. Yesterday we used, “Why does it matter to you personally that you are here for this group this week? Is there something you need to say out loud that you need to leave behind so as to be fully here? What is one thing that is inspiring you lately, and why is that important to you? What is one of the gifts you bring to this cohort this week?”
  2. Insist Deepening — Make it a bit harder. Yesterday we did this in Circle. First having each person write the name of a person that is important to them in their work. And then Getting Circly. Ask for each person to tell a story about that person. And then place the name in the center for our Circle. We also asked people to bring a personal item for the center. More stories. More layers.
  3. Pivot to Learning — Intriguing conversations yesterday about their corporate leadership model, Adapt, Dare, Learn. I love it when they ask questions and speak conundrums and excitement out loud.

3 is better when 1 and 2 have happened. Learning is better when connection and deepening are already in play.

It all goes together. Glad to be hosting.

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Gifts of Circle - Question Cardsasd
Gifts of Circle is 30 short essays divided into 4 sections: 1) Circle's Bigger Purpose, 2) Circle's Practice, 3) Circle's First Requirements, and 4) Circle's Possibility for Men. From the Introduction: "Circle is what I turn to in the most comprehensive stories I know -- the stories of human beings trying to be kind and aware together, trying to make a difference in varied causes for which we need to go well together. Circle is also what I turn to in the most immediate needs that live right in front of me and in front of most of us -- sharing dreams and difficulties, exploring conflicts and coherences. Circle is what I turn to. Circle is what turns us to each other."

Question Cards is an accompanying tool to Gifts of Circle. Each card (34) offers a quote from the corresponding chapter in the book, followed by sample questions to grow your Circle hosting skills and to create connection, courage, and compassionate action among groups you host in Circle.

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In My Nature is a collection of 10 poems. From A Note of Beginning: "This collection of poems arises from the many conversations I've been having about nature. Nature as guide. Nature as wild. Nature as organized. I remain a human being that so appreciates a curious nature in people. That so appreciates questions that pick fruit from inner being, that gather insights and intuitions to a basket, and then brings the to table to be enjoyed and shared over the next week."

This set of Note Cards (8 cards + envelopes)  quotes a few favorite passages from poems in In My Nature. I offer them as inspiration. And leave room for you to write personal notes.

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Most Mornings is a collection of 37 poems. I loved writing them. From the introduction: "This collection of poems comes from some of my sense-making that so often happens in the morning, nurtured by overnight sleep. The poems sample practices. They sample learnings. They sample insights and discoveries. They sample dilemmas and concerns."

This set of Note Cards (8 cards + envelopes)  quotes a few favorite passages from poems in Most Mornings. I offer them as inspiration. And leave room for you to write personal notes.

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