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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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And On It Goes — A Life Story

I’m learning. Just right. An important life story. 
It’s an operating system. Personalized indeed. But not just for me.

It’s this.

I have to move with yes energy.
Yes to self.
Yes to circumstance.
Yes to life flowing.
Yes to learning of hard things.
Yes to acting, taking steps in the inherent mess, but also in the inherent beauty.

This is different than all the no energies.
Including many of my favorites.
This is different than moving with fear or to prevent fear.
This is different that moving with failure or to prevent failure.

At the core,
trusted belly and trusted people in my life
have been guiding.

Trust life to flow.
And flow with it. 

Surprise and magic
then have a way of showing up and growing.
And laughing. And delighting.

Yes, learning.

A story to guide most of the other stories.
A story to enjoy and carry and live everywhere.

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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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