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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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Complexity
Notes from the Field: Presence as the Ground of True Preparation
As a psychologist and political scientist, I always felt drawn to two “acupuncture points”; engaging systemic structures and causes that give rise to deeply
Nina Nisar
August 14, 2017
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Anxiety
The Liberating Question We Don’t Ask Ourselves
A few years ago, I was asked to work with the board of a housing co-op who were having issues around workload equity. Resentments
Amanda Suutari
June 14, 2017
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agility
Leveraging Our Past
“Let’s have a working lunch so we can make sure to get through all the content.” When a client says something like that
Amy Pasquale
June 7, 2017
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authentic leadership
Want to Change? Go Further Upstream
Recently I was hired to work with an intact team whose presenting issue was poor communication, with associated breakdowns in collaboration and decision-making. They knew
Lauren Tenney
May 10, 2017
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Learning to Flow With Our Emotions
In this 1-minute video clip below, Diane Musho Hamilton shares her insights about the fluid and dynamic quality of emotions. She describes our human tendency to either
Diane Musho Hamilton
April 17, 2017
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Courage
Feedback Fuels Our Growth
Twenty years ago, I made my debut as an organizational psychologist. Perhaps influenced by academics and my former life as an accountant, my envisioned ideal
Nina Jensen
March 14, 2017
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adaptive leadership
Next Stage for Self-Management: Skilled Facilitator Training
A big ah-ha from the field: Successful self-management depends on this. Many teams and organizations, especially in the last few years since the rise of
Lauren Tenney
February 21, 2017
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agility
Free To Go Off Script
I needed a breakthrough. Two important group facilitation events loomed in my near future. While I felt excited about them, I also felt terrified. As
Edith Friesen
February 15, 2017
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facilitative leadership
Embodying Presence into The World
Why Does Sitting Meditation Help Facilitation? The question came up in our last public Integral Facilitator call about how the practice of sitting meditation contributes
Diane Musho Hamilton
October 24, 2016
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culture
Liberation and Fairness are in the Here and Now
For me, as a consultant on diversity and inclusion (D&I), “Diversity Work” is a radical call to embrace difference. It is a means of challenging
Gabriel Wilson
July 29, 2016
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culture
Your challenge isn’t high performance, it’s culture design
Thanks to Google’s recent analysis of high performing teams, the popular press on leadership and innovation is abuzz with an interest in “psychological safety.” According
Gabriel Wilson & Lauren Tenney
June 28, 2016
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