The Power of Consensus Decision Making

The Power of Consensus Decision Making

During the last 2 decades of consulting, I found that businesses and organizations were highly motivated by the goal of bringing in more money by revenue generation and charitable donations. What I most often found during the engagement were dysfunctional systems and...
Moving from Scarcity to Sufficiency

Moving from Scarcity to Sufficiency

In her iconic book The Soul of Money, Lynn Twist outlines 3 myths about scarcity & 3 truths about sufficiency.  As you may have guessed these 6 tenants are about so much more than money.  Let’s first take a look at the toxic myths of scarcity. Myth #1: There is...
Putting An End to Self-Betrayal

Putting An End to Self-Betrayal

This blog is about how we cause ourselves so much harm by practicing the fine art of lying, and most especially, lying to ourselves, also known as self-betrayal. Early in our work together, I ask my clients who feel lost in confusion, “What are you lying about?” “Who...
Fear of Flying & Other Limiting Beliefs

Fear of Flying & Other Limiting Beliefs

As I post this, I’m spending the second half of August with my 2 youngest grand-girls, Emma & Hanna, as well as their parents, my son Jonathan & daughter-in-law Claartje, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. There was a time when I could not have made the trip,...
Where Freedom Lives

Where Freedom Lives

In my experience the ultimate prison, sometimes carrying a life sentence, is caused by losing ourselves in the process of obsessively attempting to control the behavior and the outcome of the behavior of someone else.      This often occurs, but not exclusively, in...