Day-to-day, most of us live like birds with clipped wings. We lose contact with our center. We forget who we really are. Read the article →

Beautifully integrated and presented, these new guidebooks document leadership practices (The Lotus) and process templates (The Weave) for sustainability practitioners. They were developed by master’s students in the Strategic Leadership Towards Sustainability program… Read the article →

Behind all the ways we try to appear competent, confident, spiritual, or authentic is an ordinary and naked way of being. In a new ALIA video, Alan Sloan talks about how mindfulness keeps us honest—even to ourselves. Read the article →

Social Presencing Theater taps into a spring of ever-present, intuitive knowledge that is often obscured by our linear, problem-solving mind. Paying attention to our bodies and creative impulses brings balance, simplicity, and full resourcefulness back into our work and life. Read the article →

My mind and body co-operated to give me a good chance of survival, thanks also to the fact that the car did what it should and crumpled, protecting me. I attribute my experience to quickly accepting that my analytical, problem-solving brain had run out of options; in being able to let go, I created space for wisdom mind. Read the article →

The execution of the stroke distills the practice of bringing vision into action. This is also called the practice of “joining heaven and earth.” First, we prepare the ground with care and attention. Then we connect with the space, the bigger context. We gather energy and focus, then dive in, let it flow and follow through. And finally—completion, letting go, celebration. Read the article →

“When someone is present for all of their uncertainties, for the scary places within, they become genuine, and the mask, the persona, drops away. You feel you can trust them because they’re not conning themselves, and they’re not going to con you. Their genuineness manifests because they have seen all there is to see about themselves.” Read the article →

“It is always a challenge to bring more of ourselves into the present. Through mindfulness we come to notice our hesitation, our resistance. It takes effort to bring that in, to not be afraid of ourselves. By mixing mindfulness and improvisation, we invite a bit more of ourselves, from outside our usual comfort zones or strategies. How much can I include in being present?” Read the article →

“My own practice of giving instructions has been informed by years of standing in front of people. From the time I was a young man, I spoke to groups as an activist, an actor, a musician and a teacher. That training, whether in the formal environment of a theatre or workplace or the informal environment of the street has helped me immeasurably to be be clear and present with a group.” Read the article →

“His power as a warrior came from his patience, precision, attention to subtlety, concentration, and his reverence for the moment.” Read the article →