Monthly Archives: April 2017

A thought around my new mantra that says, “we need to design for memory, rather than for experience,” which says, how can you remember what you never membered ( joined together ) how can you recollect what you never collected? … Continue reading →

NOTES ON A CONFERENCE OF ALUMS JERUSALEM MARCH 19-22 2015. Is it any wonder that Gandhi and Martin Luther King Junior decided early on that the battle for peace and justice was always primarily a soul battle, a spiritual conflict … Continue reading →

A principle that comes out of work where I tend to always see more possibilities and cant resist putting them into instructions before workshops, meaning that the participants will tend to worry about doing it right than giving themselves permission … Continue reading →

How to map Life through the Territory of What Matters: What % of our life fits into these quadrants- It matters….. and I am doing it ……………..% It matters…… and I am not doing it ……………% It doesn’t matter…….and I … Continue reading →

The new book, all the rage is, Start with WHY, but Why? dare I ask? I want to write a book in reply, titled, Dont start with WHY, start with WHERE. Because Why assumes there is a reason, whereas more … Continue reading →

Follow up thoughts, when you ask WHY about something in the past, you get an explanation or an excuse or an alibi, Why did you do this, Why did you walk away? etc, looking for an excuse, but when you … Continue reading →

( A note sent to NSL class of 2015 that might be of interest) What pro ISRAEL and pro PALESTINE can mean in WASHINGTON DC One of NSL’s alums made this comment about when he encountered the Israel and Palestine … Continue reading →

“Our role is to invite our members to speak out of the authority of their own experience rather than speaking out of their experience of Authority which keeps treating them as children, telling them who they are, how to think, … Continue reading →

At the core of every human being is a mystery- something ineffable, something so beyond words. The power of a story is that it can evoke in words what is beyond words, it can catch the faint echo of that … Continue reading →

We were showing the NSL team the Vietnam Memorial, this week and explaining how this site of memory had morphed from a place of nation-splitting controversy to a place of healing, a place to mourn and heal. We were walking … Continue reading →