Power Story, Leadership Story, Masculine Agency We Need to Empower Masculine Agency I'm delighted to invite you into a conversation about empowering masculine agency as a road map to intentional leadership. We seriously need to be talking about this with one another. It's the most exciting work I'm doing with clients these days, with men and
Joseph Campbell, Archetypal Story, Story Work Working With Big Culture Stories to find Our Selves Much of the craft of my apprenticeship– what I think of as my time in graduate school- was discovering a practice around working with literature and myth. I've always known, along with folks like Joseph Campbell and Carl Jung, that what matters most about learning how to work
Let’s talk about Love Story. Your Love Story. I'm obsessed by the universality of Love Story as an expereince every single one of us, regardless of time, place, socio-economic status, can relate to. It's one of the chief ways we experience the Divine. And it is universally, deliciously, confusedly, overwhelming. Young, old, whomever you
Learning to "Story Listen" from the Brave Boys of Alchemy, Inc. Sometimes we find ourselves on the wrong mountain. And in that, everything is wrong. If we mistake that moment for our whole story, we misunderstand. When our journey is truly epic, the periods of our lives can take decades. Much of that is a messy, hard middle. A constant failing
The Long View Don’t mistake runway periods in your life for the entrance to your work. It’s only in looking back on the distinct stages of our life can we realize that it’s not that the earlier roads in our life were failed, it’s just that that road was
We Need Mentors to Become: Your Kids' College Essays Need You It’s that time of year when parents who have 12th graders are in a stir about helping their kids write personal statements for college applications and pleas to help them abound in my daily conversations as a story-whisperer. Although I’ve always said I’m interested in designing these
Identity Story as the link between the myth of our Selves and Brand Story When I was in my second year of college I was lucky enough to take Western Civ with the great cultural historian, Karl Joachim Weintraub. Little did I know that walking into this class and experiencing Professor Weintraub, listening to how he spoke about History and its relationship to the
External vs. Internal Storytelling A distinction I often play with is Internal vs. External Storytelling in the context of our daily professional conversations and communications, both formal and informal. The function, the purpose of this storytelling, guides the form. I think of external in terms of “closed” story. Here we are not interested in
The Rosetta Stone of Story: Narrative, the Uber Genre When I started out on my story quest I read every book I could find from every genre to try and sort out what was the strongest approach to crafting better stories. Turns out my ultimate answer lay in a structural approach to narrative that’s essentially good old Aristotle
What is Your Power Story? I'm obsessed with unlocking the metaphor of "feminine power" in the simple act of translation, naming feminine power as "related power." That's not just an idea I came up with. It's actually how I lived out the question. I'
Living into Unlocking the Metaphor of Feminine Power as Related Power I could tell you about the idea of Feminine Power as Related Power and although interesting it's not where the juice is. The juice is in my story of how I came to this understanding and the only question that matters: do you see yourself reflected back in
Unlocking the Metaphor of “Feminine Power” as a Leadership Directive for Diversity & Inclusion We’ve all heard cryptic lines about “feminine power” saving the world. What frustrated me from early on was that I needed to understand what that even meant for the power question I’m living out: how will I wield power? I’ve struggled with this question my whole life,
Leadership Story The Story of our Life as your Leadership Story Join me to deconstruct to reconstruct the most important story of our lives: The Story of our Life as your Leadership Story Together we’ll learn to “Story Listen” to the most vulnerable parts of what has happened to us so that we can “Story Tell” the wisdom learned through
