The Key to Getting Your Needs Met

The following post is an excerpt from the PDF portion of my downloadable home study course, Blackbelt Communication Skills Deep Basics: A Step-By-Step Home Study Course Nonviolent Communication (NVC). The course also includes 5 CDs’ worth of audio recorded during live teleseminars. (And a sweet bonus.) More information on the course, including glowing testimonials, is […]

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What the Earth really needs

Yes – the Earth needs us to drive less. The Earth needs less deforestation, species extinction, soil erosion… the list goes on. But what the Earth really needs is for us humans to get on the same page about who we are, what is the good life, and how we move forward into our shared […]

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The Change Agent Mandate

I work with “positive change agents” which I define as people committed to making the world a better place AND making themselves better people. We call ourselves many names: cultural creatives, social entrepreneurs, change makers, sustainability activists, and evolutionaries, among others. Making change in the world is not enough. I’ve seen the incredible shortfalls that […]

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2012: The end of the self as we know it

Those Mayan’s! They sure were great astronomers for their time! Given that their calendar was carved in stone tablets, can we blame them for stopping 3,000 years into the future? If this is not the year the world ends, perhaps it can be the year the world re-invents itself. WTF are you waiting for? Do […]

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