I love Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants (2013). There is much deep wisdom in this book, and in today’s blog I want to focus on the artificial separation we have been taught or have...
Eventually, leaders growing their companies will wonder if they can scale their idea, product, and/or impact across other locations or the larger system. A lot of energy has been put into how to do it, but most strategies begin with the assumption that their...
Dr. Allen asked me to write a seventh blog yet again from just ten minutes north of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. The news is that California must flatten the curve (for a fourth time) as I write this in early January 2021. So far, our state has...
Some blogs have resonated strongly with our readers this past year. As we move forward toward what will hopefully be a much more sustainable, regenerative future we thought it would be interesting to see which posts resonated with our readers the most. Here are the...
Most of us are already looking forward to leaving 2020 behind and beginning a new year. We might be exhausted but we have endured. We’ve survived 11 months of disruption and lived to tell the tale. All of us are grieving losses. For some, it is the loss of loved...
2020 has been a year where we have been challenged to adapt, learn, and survive massive change. Here are just a few examples: COVID-19 Systemic racism and other racial inequities exposed with massive demonstrations Economic uncertainty and the uneven impact of...
When bees outgrow their hive the queen bee doesn’t direct the process of finding a larger place. Instead the bees anticipate the need and the scouts go in search of a new hive on their own. As each scout bee comes back, they do a specific “bee dance” – where...
By David Erskine Dr. Allen asked me to write a sixth blog yet again from just ten minutes north of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. As I write this in early December, the news is that California must flatten the curve (for a third time.) So far, our state...
This year I’ve been giving thanks to so many things – from nature’s gift of generosity, to the simple pleasures I find when I connect with the forest during my trips to the North Shore of Lake Superior. Yet what I’m finding to be one of the...
Jacque Fletcher is a colleague, friend and Founder of Heartwood Healing, an education and training organization that helps people activate their own self-mastery to create sustainable health and wellbeing. A post she wrote earlier this year came to mind recently, and...
