Subject: Origin Stories...and Democracy
Origin Stories...and Democracy
June 5th, 2024 at 12:02 pm EDTHi Friend, Maybe you already know this: stories (always) convey cosmovisions and values. Origin stories are particularly powerful in conveying values and cosmovisions and telling us how we relate to one another. There are so many origin stories! ...
What Does it Mean to Memorialize?
May 27th, 2024 at 8:13 pm EDTHi Friend, After seven years of engaging with ReMembering and Origin Stories and Circular Time and re-narrating the major holidays of the year: only now have I begun to look at the holiday of Memorial Day. This missive pulls together some of the ...
New Podcast! With Dougald Hine
May 21st, 2024 at 4:49 pm EDTHi Friend, I'm delighted to share our new podcast with an old friend, Dougald Hine. The conversation was spurred by questions around education, which (of course) led to a wide range of other things. It's a tremendously rich conversation between tw ...
Spring energy and new Account-ability workshop!
May 6th, 2024 at 10:38 am EDTHi Friend, In just the last few days, along this slope of the rolling hills of the Hudson Valley, we seem to have switched from a moody April, with bursts of warmth followed by cold winds and frost, to full-out spring-bordering-summer. The grass s ...
Account-ability! And: some of what I learned as a social scientist
April 26th, 2024 at 10:00 am EDTHi Friend, I love this mash up of accounting, accountability, and decolonial praxis. Brilliant!! said a friend when we showed them our new Account-ability workshop. Which basically sums up how many of our amazing colleagues and friends are re ...
Account-ability: New Mini Workshop!
April 20th, 2024 at 10:00 am EDTHi Friend, My partner Kristine (Krissy) and I are offering a new pilot workshop - on accounting. Wait what? you might be thinking. Since when do you do offerings related to accounting? OK, so, here's the backstory. From my side: I used ...
Podcast and a chance to vote!
April 13th, 2024 at 11:00 am EDTDear friends, Two things in this note - a new podcast! and a chance to vote for workshops (including ours!) at SOCAP 2024. First: our new podcast with my friend Maija West. I met Maya through her work as a peacekeeper and one of the co-founder ...
1000 years of peace
April 7th, 2024 at 10:20 am EDTDear Friends, Here is the message. These are momentous times. Times to remember. To remember a thousand years of peace. Not in some far away land. But in reality. Here. Approximately a thousand years ago, the moon passed over the sun, darkeni ...
A Rabbit, A Goddess, and a Monk: An Easter Special
March 30th, 2024 at 3:17 pm EDTHi Friend, Some of you may know that way back in August, a rabbit quite literally hopped into my family's life. She is currently living in my mother's house in California. It's quite a story. Really, this rabbit is full of all sorts of stories, th ...
Why experienced professionals invest in Remembering Course?
March 23rd, 2024 at 10:00 am EDTHi Friend, There are so many times when I've been humbled by the amazing participants who come into my ReMembering Course. many of them have already done incredible work, often professionally, along the same themes we engage in for the ReMembering ...