Another great conversation with Melissa Allison and Dean Walker of The Poetry of Predicament podcast. You'll find the blog post referred to on Melissa's blog. Be sure to allow time for browsing - there is much shared that will touch your Soul. Enjoy! ... Continue Reading >>
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Melissa Allison: It’s Absolutely About Race
Another compelling and timely offering: ... Continue Reading >>
Women’s Voices – Women’s Choices
Women talk. It’s what we do. It’s also one of the things we dobest. We come together in small clusters and we talk about the things that matter to us. We talk about the people we care about. We talk about our dreams and the things that get in the way. We talk about what we love and what we hate. We talk about our children, and their children, and how ... Continue Reading >>
The Year of Practical Magic… and the 5 Keys to Making it Happen
We live in a time of incredible potential, perched on the precipice of massive transformation...or massive destruction. We get to choose how we design our lives and, in doing so, the world responds. Our choices become our manifested reality that we might see ourselves reflected in our own creations. Dare we see what we see? There are so many in our world ... Continue Reading >>
Who Says it has to be Hard!
Every time I find myself writing about, speaking about or facilitating a conversation on 'ways to improve your life', I am reminded that this has been my life for more than 25 years. What an honor it is to be invited into the lives of so many who are seeking to find or to redefine themselves. In what becomes the Sacred Space of a shared enquiry, and as we ... Continue Reading >>
Women, Breast Cancer, Food and Men
The entangled threads of my own thoughts tug at notions of women and leadership; women and breast cancer; the need women seem to have to apologize when not agreeing or when finding something lacking; food and its stranglehold on women and their bodies; and last, but most definitely not least, women and men. Were these neatly laid out in some pattern or ... Continue Reading >>
What is NLP … and Is It for Me?
NLP - or Neuro Linguistic Programming - has been around for about 25years. A body of knowledge that was originally put together by Richard Bandler and JohnGrinder, many have since invested years of experience and training working with people tocreate what has evolved into a science. And as a science, it has been recognized as one ofthe singularly most ... Continue Reading >>
WEL-Systems: NLP… is it for me?
Around the world, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) continues to be taught the same way it has been for almost four decades. Yet everywhere else around us, change is not only the essence of who we are but the very force required to make way for who we can become. We scramble to keep up with the advances in technology, slowly coming to delight in the ... Continue Reading >>
What does it take for women to lead?
Not that long ago, I was in the middle of a conversation with a trusted friend and colleague, about what was next for me, in the unfolding of my work and my business. On the wall across from where we were sitting, was the Declarationof Evolution by Intention. In a moment of uncertainty and what felt like struggle, I heard this voice saying to me: -If ever ... Continue Reading >>
Urgency vs Panic
A few days ago, I had the opportunity to spend time with some women who are new to me, in my life. I have become accustomed to spending time with people who know me well through ample personal contact. I sometimes forget that what I intend to say and what others hear, don't always match. Such was my discovery during this recent conversation. As ... Continue Reading >>
Voices and Choices – Tapestry of Sounds
Peace... tranquility... serenity... those soft, seemingly endless moments when we can hear the unique sound that we are in the Universe. If all that is expresses through rhythm and tone, in those quiet and introspective moments, we can hear the note that we are in the vast harmonies of our existence. Yet, all ... Continue Reading >>
Training: Moving into the 21st Century
This article was published in The CanadianLearning Journal, the official publication of the Ontario Society of Training andDevelopment, page 14, December '98.Please contact The CanadianLearning Journal to obtain this article. Louise LeBrun has been changing lives - including her own! - for more than 25 years. In times of uncertainty, ... Continue Reading >>
The Therapy Model: Friend or Foe?
The following material is taken from "Phoenix Rising: The Freeing of Human Potential". In a quantum age, it is an invitation to consider our century-old practice of seeking physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing through the science of a fading era. It is less that this approach is incorrect and more that it is incomplete! It is perhaps to our ... Continue Reading >>
Staying the Course
It's been almost 10 years now, since I first started my own small business. All those romantic notions of independence, freedom and great wealth have been overtaken by long hours, hard work and the uncertainties brought by never knowing what tomorrow will bring. Sometimes, I long for the "good ole' days" and the pay cheque, paid holidays and child-care leave ... Continue Reading >>
The Seventh Logical Level of Thinking
NLP, as a body of knowledge like any other body of knowledge, is a river of information in perpetual flow. From time to time, we have attempted to harness this flow and contain it, intending to use its potential force for specific purposes (nominalizing NLP). And yet, we are frequently reminded that perhaps what is most valuable is the essence of the flow ... Continue Reading >>
Sacred Spaces – Inner Places
In a world with a voracious appetite for compliance to external demands, too easily are we seduced into believing that what we need in life - all that gratifies, sustains and nurtures us - will be found outside of us. Without our own awakened exploration, we mindlessly teach our children what we ourselves have been ... Continue Reading >>
Sekhmet Rising: The Restlessness of Women’s Genius
Sekhmet Rises - The Goddess Awakens Excerpt from the book "Sekhmet Rising: The Restlessness of Women's Genius" In a quiet moment - nestled somewhere between phone calls, emails, family feuds and general, all'round distractions from my own inner landscape - I found myself wandering through an e-zine website. There I found articles on a variety of topics in ... Continue Reading >>
Time Line Therapy for a Quantum Age
We are pleased to be part of an expanding group of caring and competent professionalsaround the world who are identified as a Time Line Therapy Institute. Over the past three years, we have had the opportunityto witness the power of Time Line Therapy, asdeveloped by Dr. Tad James, and the resulting miracles that this 'theater of themind" allows for, in ... Continue Reading >>
Programmed for ‘Predictable’?
It is not by accident that we have become who we are. That's not good orbad, right or wrong ... it's just a fact of life. Great time and effort goes into moldingand shaping who we are ... and who we believe ourselves to be capable of becoming. Withoutthat awareness, we might actually think that what we perceive as our 'limitations' arereal as opposed to the ... Continue Reading >>
Pathways to Personal Power
Pathways implies more than one way to get where you're going - and in the midstof career transition, you want that kind of choice. Personal means they're allinside you - and who better to depend on? And Power is about the result theseinternal pathways create: do they enhance your capacity to fully express yourself? Beforeyou move on to unfold the next layer ... Continue Reading >>
Personal Coaching: Going Bigger, Moving Faster and Finding Transformation
Our world is not about to change, it already has changed! We can no longer simply presume that what was, still is; and that what we once held to be true can still be relied on to continue to be true. From the more obvious effects in our physical world of global climate change to the more subtle changes in our thoughts - our beliefs about ourselves, our world ... Continue Reading >>
The Paralysis of Potential
Over more than 20 years of working with women, there have been unforgettable, life-altering moments. Moments when things are said in ways that profoundly display the immense genius of us all! Profound-in-their-simple-truth moments… no longer able or willing to keep hidden what so intently lies below and screams to be seen and heard! In reading recent ... Continue Reading >>
Parenting: The Other Gift that Keeps on Giving
Excerpt from: When the Horse Dies, Get Off... and Stop Dragging It Around! ISBN: 0-9688064-1-4 How we define something determines what we do with it. If we define it as 'good', we'll want to draw it to us and push it away if we define it as 'bad'. What allows us to come to these conclusions is an underlying framework, often invisible to us, ... Continue Reading >>
NLP: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Part 1Introduction:NLP has come a long way. Over the last 30 years, who could estimate how many have been touched - intentionally or otherwise - by this incredible discovery of the structure of human behavior. And yet, despite these amazing contributions, there are nonetheless those for whom NLP has not been enough. There are many who have studied and ... Continue Reading >>
WEL-Systems®: The New Paradigm for NLP
The following article does not offer tips and techniques. It extends an invitation to you to direct your attention to much higher levels of thinking when considering the potential of NLP as a body of knowledge. It is not intended to give you answers but entice you to raise questions that you may never have considered before. It is intended to press up ... Continue Reading >>
Losing Faith in Organized Religion
Once again, allegations of institutionalized child abuse perpetrated by the clergy of the Catholic Church filled the news. This time, Europe was awakening to what we for all too long have not wanted to see or hear or know as a truth in our own experiences: we are a species that cannibalizes our young. I’ve written about this in many other times and ... Continue Reading >>
Living Large in an Increasingly Smaller World
You likely have already noticed. The world you and I share is not in such good shape these days. The list of challenges, problems and frighteningly compelling global issues is growing and seems not to be affected much by our hopes that it will change or our desire to have it somehow be resolved by someone else. Long gone are the days when we can rely on ... Continue Reading >>
Letting Go
As I sit in my friend Cathy's amazing, abundant garden, I am unable toescape the power that all living things innately carry to grow and expand. Withoutconstant vigilance, this garden would soon overtake the constraints of its boundaries andcause the stones and the walkways to disappear...swallowed up by the space that lifetakes for itself and the ... Continue Reading >>
Living Life with an Edge
It is our edges that define us. Without edges, we would not be recognizable as different or distinct from our environments. Without edges, we would blend in to our surroundings ... disappear ... become part of something else and no longer be who we are. It is the edges of things ... a picture, an apple, a car ... that allow things to be separate, ... Continue Reading >>
Layers of Discovery
We have such desire to know ourselves. We have become restless in the need to fulfill some unnamed yet insistent drive to seek more than who we have been taught to believe ourselves to be. With a relentless spirit, we pursue our evolution, trusting that we’ll come to where we need to be and find… what?... we’re not quite sure. Yet we sense that we must ... Continue Reading >>
The Journey to ‘Radical’
Be mindful of the company you keep. My world - and yours - is shaped by the conversations that we have and the people with whom we choose to have them. For my world to expand, I must first expand my conversations. I don't know about you but I have long tired of the blah blah blah... as we continue on, deep in our denial and mindless march to the edge of ... Continue Reading >>
Keeping Score
It's been a long time since I've considered the notion of 'keeping score'... maybe because now, the games I play are intended exclusively for my own accelerated evolution, and not much else! Is that a good thing? A bad thing? I have no idea - I only know that I love being me. I think that's a clue.A couple of weeks ago, I was reminded of the notion of ... Continue Reading >>
Impeccability and Manifestation
My life has been profoundly and forever changed by the recent passing of my father. Being at my Dad’s beside for 40 hours as he chose to journey from a being of Light in matter, to one of Light, free from the constraints of tissue, was a significant and life-altering experience for me. Throughout the process of loosening the grip of the body that he was, ... Continue Reading >>
Being Outside and Inside
Living in Canada's capital, it's tough to avoid outdoor activity! With the world's longest skating rink but a short drive away; and with ski hills, toboggan runs and cross-country trails in abundance and close enough to deprive even the biggest Couch Potato of any legitimate excuse, spending time outside is inviting, accessible and proven to be good ... Continue Reading >>
Humour: The Missing Link in the Chain of Command
For many of us, work has become a place where things aren't very funny. Often, the first thing to go is the very thing that helps us go the distance: humour! What is it about humor that makes life easier to live? Why is it that something can be funny one day and leave you flat the next? What is the connection between humor and health, vitality and the ... Continue Reading >>
Humour: le chainon manquant dans la voie hierarchique
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Huna: Simplicity and Wisdom for a Busy Life
In our seemingly endless search for a spiritual connection, and having been relentlessly conditioned to always look for answers outside of ourselves, we have developed the habit of seeking out the more esoteric practices and traditions of what we hold as the legacy of an ancient people. In our journey of discovery, we believe that somehow, these ‘others’ ... Continue Reading >>
I am Woman – Hear me Whine!
Apart from my own up-close-and-personal 56-years of being a woman, my life is full of women. All shapes and sizes; all forms and levels of education and development; from every color of the rainbow. And what I know, beyond a whisper of a doubt, is how powerful we are! Including myself, I don't know any women who are NOT powerful! Over the last 25+ years, ... Continue Reading >>
Icons of the Field! An Adventure in Startling Thought
The genius of Lynne McTaggart (author of What Doctors Don’t Tell You and the best-selling book The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe) is not limited to her astute investigative reporting on the not-so-astute practices of the medial/pharmaceutical establishment. Two recent days in London, England attending ... Continue Reading >>
Holiday Season Survival Kit
As much as the Holiday Season brings joy and great delight to many of us, others among us fall victim to the increasing pressures of spending money we don't have, spending time with people we don't want to be with, and eating and drinking much more than our body welcomes or can tolerate. We have become mindless - and sometimes reckless - in spending ... Continue Reading >>
The Level of the Game
I don't know about you, but it's been a long time since I've known thefreedom of being four years old and fully engrossed in whatever it is that I was doing.Remember those days? Not a care, running wildly through...the yard, the field, acrossthe beach... focused completely on every sensory response in my body. Feeling the windmove across my face, the heat of ... Continue Reading >>
Finding Ourselves in the Dark
Many times in our lives, it is not our capacity to open our eyes and see outside of us that makes the difference but our ability to close our eyes and see nonetheless...inside...where we live. Far too often, the invitation to turn our gaze inward and move into the depths of our own potential appears to us in the form of loss, sorrow, pain and fear. We are ... Continue Reading >>
From Victim to Victorious Voice
It is not news that we are a society in the throes of coming to terms with its own imperfection. We are fast approaching 20 years of discovery and exploration of our 'dark side', slowly pulling back the heavy, dusty drapes that we've used to cover up and hide our dirty little secrets. Finally, we are becoming able and willing to allow the light of our ... Continue Reading >>
Evolution by Intention: New Beginnings for Weary Souls
I am both moved and disturbed by the completion of yet another year, coupled with the realization that not much has really changed. As much as I would like to share with you thoughts that inspire and uplift; thoughts that give the reader a sense of comfort and hope for the unfolding future; thoughts that would be much more in alignment with the expectations ... Continue Reading >>
Unleashing the Hidden Powers of Emotion
This article is published in the Ivey Business Quarterly, Reprint#BQA97210, Winter '97, pp. 35 - 37. Please contact Ivey Business Quarterly for this article Louise LeBrun has been changing lives - including her own! - for more than 25 years. In times of uncertainty, agitation and fear, she believes that what is inside us will shape what unfolds outside of ... Continue Reading >>
Thoughts on… Commitment
If my recent conversations with friends and clients are any indication, itwould seem that the topic of 'commitment' is one which certainly causes emotions tointensify and blood to flow... if not the hackles to rise! The word alone is enough tosend chills down the spine of some and to warm the hearts of others. Even the conversationabout the topic can cause ... Continue Reading >>
Creativity and Daily Living
The notion of creativity is often linked to what we would consider exceptional achievements, like the art of Picasso, the invention of the laptop or the sleek design of the space shuttle. But for most of us, creativity brings its greatest rewards when it expresses quietly and much closer to home. The dictionary defines 'creativity' as the act of causing to ... Continue Reading >>
Levels of Thinking and the Chakras
The following article presumes a working knowledge of both Logical Levels and the chakras. For those of you who would appreciate information in greater detail, there is much literature available on both subjects. My personal favorites are Robert Dilts for Logical Levels, and Anodea Judith and Caroline Myss for the Chakras. Also, in the interests of both ... Continue Reading >>
Chakras and the Quantum Biological Human™
In the universal story of energy and its expression through the tissue of the body, the story is incomplete without reference to the chakras - or energy centers - of the body. Dating back thousands of years, human beings have sought to find ways to capture, describe and understand their discovery of knowing - instinctively and intuitively - that we are so ... Continue Reading >>
Thoughts on… Celebration
This particular topic has required more attention from me than usual. Moreeffort. More 'struggle'. When I am faced with such an experience, I find myself becomingmore and more curious. It has been a long time since I've let go of the need for struggleso, when it reappears, my instincts tell me that there is an opportunity here for arediscovery... or ... Continue Reading >>
Building a Business or Transforming a Life?
I am often asked: "How did you create a successful business that has lasted for more than 20 years?" Like many before me, my business began with an intention, determination and a dream. As a living process unfolding and evolving over the years, it has morphed into ways of expression that have defined and are defined by who I have been willing to become. As a ... Continue Reading >>
Balance: Bogus Bounty?
In our high-tech, high-stress environments with our fast-paced, high-demand lifestyles, much attention seems to be focused on the notion of finding balance in our lives. That mythical place where all unfolds with grace and ease; time andattention equally apportioned to family, friends, work and - if you're lucky - self, with a minimum of bumps along ... Continue Reading >>
Addiction: Recovery or Re-Discovery?
It took a long time to come back from that not-so-slow descent into illness, depression and a loss of interest in being alive. Fortunately, when these moments were at their most intense, I had not yet become a mother. The greatest damage was done only to myself and given my existing state of mind, that didn't seem to matter much. Once it became ... Continue Reading >>
Fully Alive from 9 to 5! (Excerpt)
The following excerpt is taken from the book Fully Alive From 9 to 5! (ISBN0-9685566-8-X). The original book has been updated and is now in its' 3rd Edition titled Fully Alive: Awakening Health, Humor, Compasion and Truth We spend more time at work than we spend anywhere else in our lives. For at least five days out of seven, we go to a place where we do ... Continue Reading >>
Accelerated Healing: Safety, Science and a Touch of the Sacred
Far too many are struggling with chronic, debilitating dis-eases that begin in the structure of our thoughts and eat their way through the tissue of our body. We even have language to represent this notion, when we talk about someone being 'consumed' by a problem or another who has something 'eating at them'. What begins as an expression of energy in the ... Continue Reading >>
Quantum Leaps: Inspiration and Alchemy
IntroductionAround the world, competent and resourceful people share knowledge, experience and wisdom with those who place their trust in a process of discovery called "NLP Certification Training". Those who teach NLP do so for a variety of reason, not the least of which is a desire to contribute and make a difference. The ensuing dance is one that engages ... Continue Reading >>
Thoughts on… Abundance
When I think of abundance, I am reminded of a picture that was given to me by a very close friend. A budding photographer, she had captured a cluster of cherry blossoms as they vied for space to become fully expressive on the tree in Japan that was their home. So fertile ... and so ripe ... each small blossom seemed to be pushing and shoving to find a sliver ... Continue Reading >>
2012: Desperation or Inspiration?
Time does seem to be flying by, accelerating and propelling us toward the date that has already reached mythical proportions in our time. Today, it is very rare indeed, to find someone who does not react to the notion of 2012; each in his or her own way, but react they do! As mindful as I am today about 2012, I’ve never taken the time to stop... take a ... Continue Reading >>