Growing up in Texas, I knew that every Thanksgiving my mother, the clear and present matriarch of the family, would end our meal with a single command. “Okay, now let’s go around the table and everyone say what you’re grateful for.” Eyes would roll. And the moans were audible. I was in my mid-30s before I began to appreciate this ritual.
Learning to Be Brave. Conversations that Heal.
So the other day, I was speaking with an amazingly smart and creative friend who told me that she doesn’t believe in safe spaces. Rather she said she believes in brave spaces. This got me to thinking about the difference between a safe space and a safe conversation.
Black Men Speak: A Conversation for Humanity
When George Floyd was killed, and people began hitting the streets in protest, I started to stir from a long slumber – the sleepy comfort of not knowing what I did not know. I started to listen. This conversation is the result of what I heard. And the three men who speak here – all dear friends of mine – share three experiences of what it means to be a black man in their three countries (USA, UK and South Africa) and around the world.
Create a (r)evolution. Start with your own life.
“A riot is the language of the unheard.” – MLK There is a great deal of adrenalized action in the world today. It was inevitable. We will never have peace in our societies until all our voices can be heard, no matter how uncomfortable those voices make us. There is going to be anger. There is going to […]
“Go to your room.” What Mother Nature Needs You to Think About Now.
Grieving Normal: 5 Strategies for Life in the Time of Coronavirus
Do you feel it? I’m witnessing in my clients, students and friends around the globe is a collective grief for life as we knew it, which is suddenly, abruptly gone. The heavy, weary, foggy, pointless feeling that penetrates your entire being – body, mind, spirit and heart – and stops you in your thick, sticky tracks. We are grieving Normal. What do we do now?