Tag: YOUnify

  • Responsible Free Speech: Context, Content, and Why They Matter

    Responsible Free Speech: Context, Content, and Why They Matter

    Many Americans want to express their right to free speech. But, it seems that very few people want to be responsible for their right to free speech. There is a bit of wisdom that has been attributed to Abraham Lincoln that goes something like this, “Better to remain silent and thought a fool than to…

  • Bring Your Aliveness To All You Do

    Bring Your Aliveness To All You Do

    Right now what makes me come alive is helping other people come alive and helping organizations become spaces for cultivating aliveness among the members of their work community so that they can create products and services the world needs. Because when we bring our aliveness to all we do, it creates opportunities for flourishing for…

  • Tools For Creating Greater Belonging Full Video

    Tools For Creating Greater Belonging Full Video

    Belonging is an essential need for every person. And, creating greater belonging is the main ingredient for community thriving and healthy democracy. But what do we do when our ability to foster belonging reaches its limits? Or when we are frustrated with being excluded from the communities that profess to be welcoming? How do we…

  • Tools for Creating Greater Belonging

    Tools for Creating Greater Belonging

    Belonging is an essential need for every person. And, creating greater belonging is the main ingredient for community thriving and healthy democracy. But what do we do when our ability to foster belonging reaches its limits? Or when we are frustrated with being excluded from the communities that profess to be welcoming?

  • Conversation  Catalyst or Conversation Coward?

    Conversation Catalyst or Conversation Coward?

    Usually I write poems or long blogs to express my thoughts. This time I drew a picture. The point of the picture—if it’s not obvious—is that I think we are at a critical moment in the world when we can choose to be #ConversationCatalysts and foster a #CollaborativeCulture or we can be #ConversationCowards and devolve…

  • A Call to Restore the Balance

    A Call to Restore the Balance

    A bird flapping with one wing is grounded and spins in a circle going nowhere fast. – The Way

  • Mother, Minister, Manager: The 3Ms of Leading People Successfully

    Mother, Minister, Manager: The 3Ms of Leading People Successfully

    As a former pastor, I feel tempted to call these 3Ms of leading people, “The Holy Trinity of Leading People Successfully”. But maybe, I’ll call it the “Wholly Trinity” because when leading people it is best to see us as whole people and that is what the 3Ms encourage us to do. I must acknowledge…