Cultivating Extraordinary Courage

Every day we have an opportunity to cultivate extraordinary courage in others through our calling, in our teams, through our sphere of influence—sometimes simply through our words or our presence. Let’s dialogue about this topic. I don’t have the answers or a complete...

Afraid to Dream

“Nothing happens unless first we dream.” —Carl Sandburg, poet At the final breakfast of the 2016 Mount Hermon Writers Conference, literary agent Wendy Lawton stood and addressed all those who hadn’t yet been whisked away by the airport shuttles. She...

Seeing and Being Seen

“True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person.” Kathleen Norris Sawubona. I recently learned this Zulu “hello” at a 2016 If Gathering simulcast. In the Zulu language it means, “I see you.” A speaker with us at the...

Cultivate: Space to Hear, Space to Heal

“Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.” Henri Nouwen, Out of Solitude I’m on a journey of cultivating space.Space to hear his whispers. Space to...