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Human to Human is both a daily blog and a podcast. Podcast episodes are monthly. The 2024 theme is Practicing For Peace. Listen here.

Human to Human, this blog, is journalling and learning in public, Monday through Thursday, in which I post current learnings that weave my poetry, my coaching, and my group process facilitation. Posts are 300-500 words, often with photos, intended to be read in five minutes and to inspire reflection, individually and communally, on varied aspects of participative leadership practices, insights, and human to human depth.

Sam Slade on The H2H Podcast

Listen to the episode here.

Sam and I and others co-hosted a Practicing Peace Dojo last year. We talk about it a bit.

And we talk the big self, the impact of the peace narrative, staying with curiosity, and the significance of what any of us do 3 feet in front of us.

Some good banter. Some laughter. Some delicious wonder. Some needed reflection. Some learning, out loud, with invitation to others too.

Enjoy the listen.

Humans Wish / Need Connection

Working on a design for a client system that brings context and practice of connection.

Some of my setup goes like this:

Humans everywhere wish connection.

For learning. 
For belonging. 
Sometimes for collaboration and imagination.
Sometimes for safety and security.

The range is wide. Yet connection is a common desire and need.

Then I describe these simultaneous realms of desired connection. To invite fullness and wholeness, as individuals and as a group.

It’s more common to pay attention to connection with others and with circumstance. Most of us also need to lift up connection with ourselves and with the bigger picture of life flowing.

Then I offer questions that people can engage together so as to add more connection.

Who are you?
What’s it like to be you?
What are you learning?
What has your attention?
How is this growing you into the person you wish to be? The group you wish to be?

A work in progress.

Living Into Our Stories

Good one above, from colleague Mary Alice Arthur.

Activism. It connotes a kind of sharedness. What community does together. For a particular cause. Sometimes to right some wrongs.

Activism. It also connotes an energizing. Bringing something to life. Clarifying. Centering.

Giving attention to one’s story — not just the story of others — it’s a hugely compelling gift. It feeds some shared honesty and clarity. Always good.

I find myself living into such clarity. And appreciating it. Appreciating loved ones near that help clarify and grow the story. Appreciating friends who feed the process of living with consciousness. And kindness. And in flow with life itself.

It is indeed, a deep activism.

Joy As Foundation

Calling upon a previous post — on joy. From Sadhguru, a teacher to one of my teachers.

Because joy gives birth. Because it’s contagious. Because it is a discipline — to come to know that joy lives side by side with sorrow and plethora of other challenges, and yet still access and invite joy.

There are people in my life that live joy as radical act. Seems to come with age, as conscious choice. But for some, joy just is.

I’m grateful.

Life flowing. Joy flowing. Life learning. Joy learning.