To recap (short version) from the first post: To assist you along the way, you can find visual aids for each of the wall charts referenced in the audio material on the WEL-Systems Institute website. Scroll down to about the middle of the page to access links to a PDF of each wall chart. This final week's conversation is intended to offer an experience ... Continue Reading >>
Health and Wellness
Memory Lane: Money and Mind
Over time, money has come to be generally accepted as the currency of choice; as the preferred medium of exchange that allows us to bring into our lives that which, without currency, we believe we could not experience. Truth is, rare is the person or the moment when we stop... take a breath... and ask ourselves: Is money the only currency? How else ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: The Great Daring
In truth, incremental change is much easier for us to manage. With those tiny steps - inching ourselves forward from one day to the next - those around us are able to watch and listen, tracking for our movement and potentially, adjusting accordingly as we go. Through this process, even though we may be changing, we continue to be experienced by others as ... Continue Reading >>
Easy Listening: Women Awakening – Part 4/6
To recap (short version) from the first post: I’ve decided to share the full experience of that ‘Women Awakening’ event (Volume 3). The related sound files will unfold over the coming six weeks, each part approximately 20-30 minutes in length. These are intended to offer you food for thought; and if you’re willing, a gateway to a renewed trust in the truth ... Continue Reading >>
Easy Listening: Women Awakening – Part 3/6
To recap (short version) from the first post: I’ve decided to share the full experience of that ‘Women Awakening’ event (Volume 3). The related sound files will unfold over the coming six weeks, each part approximately 20-30 minutes in length. These are intended to offer you food for thought; and if you’re willing, a gateway to a renewed trust in the truth ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: The Men in Our Lives
After almost three decades in the program room (working with both men and women), I became aware of an emerging pattern. As I moved away from experiences that were based in technique; experiences that were supported by the detailed content of ‘how to” and the manuals that they require, I noticed that the men were disappearing from the group experience. Fewer ... Continue Reading >>
Easy Listening: Women Awakening – Part 2/6
To recap from the first post: One of the explorations I came across was to be Volume 3 of the ‘Women Awakening’ series. These were evening events, usually three hours in length, that were intended to be of value to women who were seeking to find a process that would guide them back to that within themselves which was core to their unique and authentic ... Continue Reading >>
Easy Listening: Women Awakening – Part 1/6
One of the fun parts of exploring ‘retirement’ is that as I wander through long-untouched audio files, I have discovered many, many hours of unpublished recordings. Due to constraints of available time and effort, these sound files are just now re-entering my consciousness. Given that a WEL-Systems® approach is process and context driven, the ’shelf life’ of ... Continue Reading >>
Truths, Perceptions and Choices
Everything is true somewhere, at some time, for someone - not because the content is ‘real’ or ‘accurate’ but because perception makes it so. Now prone to being awake and ready to start my day anytime after 4:00 am, I am also prone to thinking in sound bytes rather than complete sentences. Even within myself, I am noticing that I explore my own thoughts ... Continue Reading >>
Memory Lane: Paying Attention
Being human, there are two things essential for our ability to function in this physical world. The first, is a body. Without that, we are incapable of detecting, sensing and metabolizing the experience of matter. Our bodies are capable of far more than we are taught, making it possible for us to ‘ingest’ and ‘digest’ ‘life’ at many different levels - from ... Continue Reading >>
The Pause….and the Redirect
When I sold my house in the summer of 2015, little did I know that I was letting go of ‘ownership’ of so much of the familiar in my life. I gave myself to the end of 2016 to explore, discover and consider what ‘retirement’ might mean for me. That concept (for me, from the French ’se retirer’ - meaning, to remove myself; to pull myself away from or out of) ... Continue Reading >>
Women’s Retreat with Louise: Nov. 22, 23 & 24, 2016
It’s that time of year, again! With the rapid approach of Fall, my thoughts turn to the annual Emerging Futures retreat for women; at the Fairmont Chateau Montebello. The Sharp Edge of Your Own Evolution: Contouring the Curve of Creation November 22, 23 & 24, 2016 Such an odd way to define this event! How do we make sense of recognizing that our own ... Continue Reading >>
The Meaning of Life
How presumptuous of me : to think that I have figured out the meaning of life. And yet, to be sure, I have figured it out for mySelf. Things change. There was a time when I was driven by a bottomless well of caring that my potential, and yours... as human beings... was given the chance to be fully expressed. In that, I felt it was both meaningful and ... Continue Reading >>
Losing Faith in Organized Religion
Once again, allegations of institutionalized child abuse perpetrated by the clergy of the Catholic Church fill the news. This time, Europe is 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 spaces. ... Continue Reading >>
Entrepreneurial WELbeing
How do I compress 1000 thoughts, streaming at mach speed through the living organism of this quantum biological processor, into coherent and successive statements that will make sense to the intellect? In this moment, I know fully the visceral meaning of that expression of “... a picture being worth a thousand words! “ So many pictures - and far too many ... Continue Reading >>
Pandemic
It's been lingering in the background for some time. In the last few days, its vibration has amped up significantly as Mexico and other countries 'brace for impact' of what many have long intended and been waiting for. It would be easy to tell a long story about this; to spend time and typing and 'pages' in proffering a perspective that would encompass ... Continue Reading >>
RIGing – a powerful alternative to ‘love’
I've come to conclude that the language of ‘love' is highly overrated! Having just completed a week-long conversation with a small group of women gathering... talking about their lives... it became clear to me that we have mastered a huge variety of ways to denigrate ourselves in the name of ‘love'. "Love' is not real. It's a nominalization... a code word ... Continue Reading >>
The Audacity of Being Present
I've been reading the blogs and emails of some of the women I spend time with. I've been chatting and listening to the direction their lives have taken since our last time together. There is a theme emerging and I believe it is greatly important to pay attention to it. The theme is this: the audacity of daring to claim our own lives! The audacity of ... Continue Reading >>
Sorting out Shadows
More pieces are coming into my awareness. Yesterday, I had time with a wonderful woman whose company lights up my day! Lisa dropped by the office because of a technical problem with CD's... only to discover once she got there, there were no problems. AND we had a great conversation! I feel compelled to acknowledge that our messages come in the strangest ... Continue Reading >>
From depression/despair to delight!
I had an amazing experience, recently. A very dear friend wrote me in a state of despair. In a moment of engaging, I shared some thoughts with him - and his world changed. Imagine! Such profound shifts from such little effort! Can it really be that effortless? In a matter of days, he started a new life and is now LIVING! If that's not magic, I don't ... Continue Reading >>
Taking it back!
Another one of those moments... driving to work listening to the CBC. This time, I caught the tail end of a conversation about how difficult it is becoming (at least, in Ontario) for people to find a family physician. The conversation also explored the characteristics of the patients that doctors don't want (my words, not theirs....that would be much too ... Continue Reading >>
Sainthood and Martyrdom: It’s a girl thing
I spent time today with a woman I consider to be a good friend. We've known each other for about 6 years, and yet it feels like just the slightest brush of time. If you offered me money to pick one thing about her that I don't like, I'd be hard pressed to come up with something. When I think of her or engage with her, my experience is always one of ... Continue Reading >>