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Finding Ground
“Ground is the place to go when overwhelmed with thoughts and fears. It can hold our confusion with unwavering presence. We can source the earth’s
Cléo Burke
April 9, 2020
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Insights From the Field
by Ten Directions
Insights, essays, perspectives, and lessons learned while working in the field of facilitative leadership. Authors include our staff, as well as guest contributors.
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Innovation, Freefall and Not-Knowing
“The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there’s no ground.” ~Chögyam Trungpa
Alana Felt
May 14, 2019
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Bias
What is Weaving Alignment?
I’d love to share an experience from a few years ago that illuminates how facilitative leadership was used to weave alignment and transform culture and
Rebecca Colwell
July 7, 2021
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availability
The Compassionate Path: A journey towards true co-creation in facilitation
I came to the Next Stage Facilitation program as a yoga teacher and a teacher trainer. As a woman of colour in an industry where
Nikki Martin
February 17, 2021
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Courage
Freeing up the self to live a more ethically fulfilling life
The Condors “Dead condor chicks have been found with stomachs stuffed with cigarette butts, lighters, and plastic shards. Adult condors forage for bone fragments and
Kim Loh
September 18, 2019
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Courage
The solution to your lifeless job? Disarm yourself
For the past few years, when it comes to doing any kind of work with teams and organizations, I’ve been increasingly drawn to the emergent
Dara Blumenthal
July 9, 2019
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authentic leadership
Why Knowing that our Evolution is Uneven is a Facilitator’s Strength
Let’s just start where it hurts. My friends and colleagues are worried about the recent push back on cultural progress. So is UN Secretary-General Antonio
Jennifer England
May 29, 2019
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availability
Self-Hosting: A Conversation
Most of us know how to host others. At gatherings we offer to take coats, pour a drink or two, check in now and then
Nina Nisar and Gracy Obuchowicz
April 12, 2019
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Collaboration
The Serious Need for Play
I emerged from college with a solid sense of the daunting scale of our world’s environmental challenges. Yet, I was comforted by the array of
Spencer Honeyman
March 26, 2019
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Bias
What Self Is the Instrument?
As a young boy growing up in Jamaica, I believed that I was developmentally behind because I was black, Jamaican, and materially disadvantaged. As I
Akasha
March 8, 2019
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availability
You Can’t Think Your Way Into Reality
Here’s an invitation: Turn on the news for 10 minutes or read the front page of any major newspaper and get really still – relaxing
Dara Blumenthal
February 7, 2019
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Courage
Befriending the Raging Toddler Within: Cultivating Emotional Maturity
In my organization, we do feedback a little differently than typical performance reviews. We have what we call GBOP (Get Better on Purpose) sessions with
Usha Gubbala
January 9, 2019
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Cultivating Wildly Peaceful Communities
Like so many other women when the #metoo movement emerged in late 2017, I pondered over whether I should share my story publicly. I
Simone Torrey
November 9, 2018
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