What to Do With the Pain?
You’ve probably heard the term “compassion fatigue”? It can happen when you’re constantly taking in the pain of the world and don’t know what to do with it. Whether it’s the sorrow of working with beings who are deeply hurting, the hopelessness of facing impossible odds, anger at those standing in the way of change, […]
Are You Glass-Half-Full or Half-Empty?
To be effective and enduring changemakers, we can’t just focus on with what’s WRONG with the world, but what’s GOOD. Here are some tools to help you with that. If you know me at all, you’ll probably hear me talking about the great value of joy, presence, and love. So, you might be a little […]
A More Deliberate, Productive Week
Are you working hard to make a difference in the world, but feel like you’re just never getting enough done? Well, I’m a big believer in working smarter, not harder. In this Changemakers Sessions, I teach you some techniques for setting up and optimizing your week so your most meaningful projects and dreams stay on-track […]
How to Keep Your Cool with “Opponents”
When you’re a changemaker, you often face a lot of opposition in the world, your communities, and even with your own family and friends. Sometimes it’s people who are very ideologically set against your cause. Other times, it’s just folks who are uncomfortable, for whatever reason, with the changes you’re personally trying to make. Either […]
Getting Out of Robot Mode
On Feb 7th, I launched The Changemaker Sessions with the theme of “Getting Out of Robot Mode“! With our world in such an urgent state of trouble, our kneejerk reaction, as people trying to create change, can be to go into pure autopilot in an effort to buckle down and get things done as efficiently as […]
Turning New Year Possibility into Reality
Happy New Year Sweet Ones!! POSSIBILITY. I think that’s what the New Year most represents for me. That delicious moment in time when we feel we could actually create our year and our life, instead of our year and life just happening to us. Unfortunately, many folks find this air of possibility fading before the first week […]
Rock The Damn Boat
Are you afraid of blowback from speaking up for what you believe in? Here’s the trick for making yourself bullet-proof… Many of the changemakers I work with are empathetic, natural peacemakers, and often kind-to-a-fault. These can be great qualities for caring about the state of the world, but challenging qualities for calling out the state of the […]
The Angry Changemaker
The problem isn’t in feeling anger, the problem is in being angry. I talk to my coachees and students a lot about making sure our anger as changemakers isn’t running the show. When some folks hear this, they unfortunately take that to mean they “shouldn’t” feel anger. Well, I’m here to say, HELL NO to […]
Digging in the Dirt
What does a veganic farm and a silent meditation retreat have in common? They both utilize the valuable life skill of digging in. This past week I was literally digging in the dirt helping plant our first veganic farm for the Toronto Vegetarian Food Bank that I help run. Take a watch! https://youtu.be/b58wOfhnVqo Now this […]
Presence Over Perfection
Magnificent One! As folks trying to make a difference in the world, it’s so important for us to connect with and truly reach people. But I used to feel sooo much pressure to make an impact in a conversation or a presentation, that I’d get totally stuck in my head trying to find just the […]
Summer Presence Meditation
For folks who live in places like I do where there’s a whole lot of winter, summer can be especially sweet. That is…if you’re paying attention. See, when you’re somebody who’s trying to make a difference in the world, you might find yourself getting so caught up in your mission and getting shit done, that […]