by Deb | Sep 19, 2008 | Change, Transition and Transformation, Coaching, Healing, Learning, Metaphors and Stories, Spirituality and Reflection
I want to let you know about a unique workshop I will be co-facilitating with my colleague Yvette Hyater-Adams. We are offering individuals the chance to access a forgotten source of knowing: the creative connection. We will guide participants in using story-writing,...
by Deb | Sep 15, 2008 | Change, Transition and Transformation, Learning, Metaphors and Stories, Mindful and Intentional, Spirituality and Reflection
Last week I participated in a fabulous writing workshop. After four days of constant writing, I found myself feeling a strong sense of nervous energy – kind of the way it feels when you’ve drunk too much coffee. Since I hadn’t had much coffee and...
by Deb | Jun 11, 2008 | Change, Transition and Transformation, Connections, Learning, Metaphors and Stories, Mindful and Intentional, Spirituality and Reflection
One of the most basic of human desires is the desire to feel “seen.” We want to be seen for who we are and have the unique gifts that we bring to the world appreciated and valued. An incident that took place with my daughter about a year ago helped me...
by Deb | Mar 27, 2008 | Change, Transition and Transformation, Connections, Culture, Equity and Justice, Healing, Metaphors and Stories, Quilt of Humanity
In the book, The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, Sandy Tolan artfully tells the story of two individuals who grew up with dramatically different cultural stories. Bashir Khairi, a Palestinian man, was six years old in 1948, when his...
by Deb | Mar 25, 2008 | Culture, Metaphors and Stories, Quilt of Humanity
Stories can differ completely depending on who is narrating them as well as the point in time that is seen as the “beginning” of the story. In her book, The Thirteenth Tale, a mystery about a family, Dianne Setterfield speaks to this: “I shall start...
by Deb | Mar 6, 2008 | Connections, Healing, Learning, Metaphors and Stories, Quilt of Humanity
If you are in the New York City or Holyoke, Mass. areas, please come to the reading and discussion of my book, Repairing the Quilt of Humanity: A Metaphor for Healing and Reparation. It has been described as: “A rare account of one white woman’s journey to...
