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Jeanne Supin
Flinging ideas over the edge.
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Thank you! And I hope all is well with you and with everyone at Integrity House!
Jeanne Supin
Welcome to my excuse to write. I like to meander with big ideas, little moments, weird observations, inspiring people ... and I am grateful for your company.
Eager to hear how it goes! I've not attended but it's definitely been on my radar. So let me know.
And thanks!
Gathering 2.0
Does anyone out there remember PlaNetwork? It was a fabulously geeky conference that had a good run back a few years ago now. I loved its combination of high geekery and values-based idealism. I remember meeting someone through pre-event communications that I collaborated with to build a beaut...
So beautiful ... thank you.
Aspen Medicine, Taos
I have a backlog of Beauty Dialogue posts to write, but this morning I woke up in Taos to find the world covered in snow and suddenly there is only one (click to see her larger)...
Hi Annemarie,
I can't begin to speculate why different folks can or can't be vulnerable - I can barely figure out why I have trouble with vulnerability when I do. But your thoughts seem pretty compelling, especially when you suggest that beneath anger, violence and depression may lie deep wounds that deserve our compassion and love, rather than disgust.
Decades ago I worked in juvenile court and child welfare at the height of the crack cocaine epidemic. I learned the addicted mothers who were losing their kids had experienced traumas in their own childhoods; almost all had be sexually abused and/or were raised by parents with active alcoholism or drug addictions, were neglected, many physically abused. Psychologists found these mothers -- despite their chronological adult age -- had emotional ages of around 8-9 years old. Those facts completely altered my perceptions of the courts and child welfare scene. The judge assumed she was talking to a grown woman about the steps necessary to get her kids back -- get a job, find a stable apartment, stay in treatment. But, in fact, the woman standing before that judge was emotionally as immature as any normal 3rd grader, still confused, battered and longing for the adults to take care of her, for the world to feel safe & make sense.
We are always accountable for our own thoughts, actions, words and decisions. (And I do believe each of us can find ways to soften our own selves, open up to safe vulnerability in ways that feel good.) But before passing judgment on others -- or offering either punishment or help -- it's best if we know where they're coming from.
Thanks. Jeanne
Brene Brown
I'm writing a book (and, thus, trying to stay very disciplined on the long-write instead of the short-post-writes) but came upon this great TED presentation (thanks Janet!), perfect for both today's drafting and New Year's intention.
Thanks!
Salmon Khan - Flipping the Paradigm
Besides the obvious personal implications for Alden and his fellow middle schoolers, my mind is popping with all sorts of other contexts ... for my therapist, psychologist, psychiatrist colleagues: similar self-paced, interactive video, private & blissfully personal learning for th...
Perhaps it's a sign of success, instead? That the depth, soul and vibration of the conversation suddenly exceeded the existing technological amps? Or the richness of the full community could no longer stay contained within the designed small groups, a weird kind of breaking through the veil?
I'm so sorry I couldn't be on, but eager to access the mp3 or transcript, look forward to the next one, and so grateful for your efforts!
The Times We Are Preparing For
I think I've mentioned that I have a fabulous women's group that meets in a sheltering cave in a mountain in Second Life. Every Thursday morning the five of us sit in circle and share the deeper levels of what's up for us. In my case last week it was the final stretch of a long preparation perio...
Hi David,
Loved your comment that I talk about energy work as if it were real -- I do I do I do believe it's real (which can make for entertaining conversations, particularly with my scientific and physician friends!)
Sounds like you have an excellent massage practice and clientele. I know several other massage therapists who share similar approaches -- with exceptionally loyal & enthusiastic clients.
I don't get the resistance, frankly. But then there are so many things about modern life I don't understand.
Thanks for reading & keep in touch.
The Stuff We Should Talk About
A writer recently interviewed my niece, Lindsey, for a magazine feature about an inspiring young woman who transformed after a harrowing experience. (Quick recap for the uninitiated, October 2009 Lindsey – barely 20 -- and her boyfriend were robbed, and he was shot and killed as they left their ...
Congratulations! Unfortunately I'm scheduled elsewhere on April 1 -- can folks access a recording, even if I can't participate? And I'm so looking forward to future Conversations. Thanks so much for leading this initiative!
Announcing Conversations for the 21st Century
I'm excited to share the launch of a project that my new company weDialogue has been working on for several months now in collaboration with the World Cafe. You are all warmly invited to participate, and I'm serious about that because it will take all of us... The project is a series of free i...
Patrick Lencione
Starting my (free) virtual book club Monday. Come join (and help me figure out how to navigate an online conversation with 100 folks!). This week we're talking about Patrick Lencione's work. Next week, Bill Clinton's book Giving. Continue reading
Posted Mar 13, 2011 at Watauga Consulting
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Join My Virtual Book Club (It's Free)
I'm hosting a free virtual book club, sponsored by the National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare to highlight the keynote speakers at the Council's annual conference in May. We'll be reading President Bill Clinton's Giving, leadership fables by Patrick Lencione and works that blend memoir and advocacy in mental health... Continue reading
Posted Mar 1, 2011 at Watauga Consulting
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Kind Words
Some very gracious words of support from Dave Parnin, Muskegon County Mental Health (MI) after the February 2011 Middle Management Academy. (Excuse the background noise!! First try with my newest camera). Continue reading
Posted Feb 28, 2011 at Watauga Consulting
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Love this!
Intelligent Cooperation
I found this recently and liked it so much I put it on the front page of my Clear Light Communications website. "Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucin...
Thanks for your comment and I enjoyed looking around your site - very cool work.
I've been hooked on homeopathy since my daughter was a toddler (now she's 18) and this little sugar pill immediately cured an ear infection resistant to 3 previous antibiotics. Even her pediatrician marveled at the results. I've since studied homeopathy and many other energy healing systems. (I have a couple of other related posts under "alternative route" category).
The marketing disaster (great description!)? It's a different paradigm and philosophy; there's no concept or language for energy in Western medicine. Western medicine doesn't incorporate energy systems, anatomy, physiology, pathology, diagnosis, treatment ... it just doesn't fit so it's understandably really hard to incorporate or understand it. Makes it difficult for energy systems to shove into current double-blind study designs, too, since energy treatments are far more individualized, tailored and non-diagnosis driven.
Plus, I find just as some meds don't work with some folks, some energy treatments don't work with some people. My daughter & I have fabulous luck with homeopathy, but some friends have no success at all.
And finally, the thing that makes energy treatments so magnificent is also the thing that turns them into marketing disasters: the right remedy is so subtle, so gentle, so profound that it leaves me without any memory of having the problem in the first place. It's not just that my allergies subsided; it's as if I never had allergies in the first place. Which makes it really easy to forget or dismiss that perhaps it was those little, inconsequential sugar pills that did the trick.
Getting Unclaustrophobic
I'm working on it. I'm the type of person who ultimately has no patience for my own neuroses & shit. Admittedly, it takes me awhile to nail down what exactly is going on. But then I go after it with seemingly reckless (but actually pretty equally-neurotic precise) abandon. Today it was Body T...
Middle Management Academy
Posted Feb 16, 2011 at Watauga Consulting
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My blessings, heart and love to you.
My sister Karen
My sister Karen died this week. She went into the hospital on Monday night and was gone by Wednesday a little after noon. She'd been feverish and feeling bad for a few days before Christmas, but she didn't have insurance and felt she couldn't spend the money to go to the doctor and see what was ...
Beautifully said.
Dom's Trial Begins
The trial began yesterday in Las Vegas for Dom's murder 14 months ago, 6 defendants, varying culpability. Lindsey's testimony -- the only eyewitness -- begins this morning. She said it's been intense listening to the defendants' details about the night they robbed her and her boyfriend and the...
Thanks, Lou. I'll pass it to Debbie, too, who came over this morning way dejected.
Happy Election
A Frenchman recently explained he was striking against the increased retirement age, in part, to avoid becoming like the U.S. I remain utterly bewildered that Americans still fight against things our international peers take for granted: free universal healthcare, excellent k-12 education for a...
Accountable Care Organizations
A geeky insider joke, but made me laugh this morning ... Continue reading
Posted Nov 1, 2010 at Watauga Consulting
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Mind Tools
Came across this excellent "mind tools" site while preparing a module on healthy conflict resolution. Lots of great content for organizational improvement and a free newsletter. Continue reading
Posted Oct 7, 2010 at Watauga Consulting
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Multi-Means-No Tasking
I knew multi-tasking was wiping me out, but seems it makes me wildly unproductive, too. A Stanford University study says those of us who work, answer emails & texts, and talk on the phone at a frenzied pace .... ... can't pay attention because we're constantly distracted by irrelevant information.... Continue reading
Posted Oct 4, 2010 at Watauga Consulting
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Paul,
Thanks for reading & commenting! And would love to hear more about your continued commitment & efforts to live deliberately in a complex, fast-paced world. I find my priorities and my sense of presence are sharpening each moment -- my list of what's important shrinks rapidly and I'm increasingly focusing only on 1 things at a time. Not even by choice, necessarily -- to do otherwise just makes me so dizzy these days!
I appreciate getting to know you, too!
Here and There All At Once
At the eastern entrance to I-40, on the outskirts of Wilmington, NC, an official green highway sign reads, "Barstow, CA 2,554 miles." As I drove past it Friday, I happened to be talking to a colleague who lives near the western entrance of that same freeway. On Monday I will fly over Barstow, ...
2/10 Number of people who play to their strengths...
2/10 Number of people who play to their strengths every day, according to Marcus Buckingham, Gallup, and The Strengths Finder. Want to be one of those 2 out of 10? Better yet, want to help raise that 2 to something higher? First, find your strengths. With tenacious detail and specificity.... Continue reading
Posted Sep 27, 2010 at Watauga Consulting
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Truths About Strengths
Only 2 out of 10 of us work to our strengths most days, according to Marcus Buckingham and the Gallup Organization. 2 out of 10. A sobering figure. Buckingham suggests we can rise above that quagmire by exploding a couple of well-worn myths: Myth 1: As we grow, we change.... Continue reading
Posted Sep 21, 2010 at Watauga Consulting
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What in the World is Watauga?
Allan Scherlen, my librarian friend, didn't exactly find an answer, but his quest is fun ... (Download What_in_the_world_is_watauga_mountain_times_text-1) Continue reading
Posted Sep 11, 2010 at Watauga Consulting
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Great Teams
Posted Sep 11, 2010 at Watauga Consulting
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