Creating, Co-creating, Focusing on Inspiration

In my desire to stay healthy and well – mentally and physically – in times that feel chaotic and uncertain, I am in deep co-creation with others and I am following people who I feel inspired by. This post offers a few of the resources and sources I find helpful. Maybe you can add a few.

My partner Jerry and I have been writing extensively on how to create and sustain a Healthy Workplace Culture as we build a year-long program for a partner. Through this, we have developed a wealth of information, strategies and processes that we are now building into new virtual and in-person offerings with practical guidance that will make a difference to those who take part in them. The program is exciting and energizing and we are looking forward to launching it in January 2025, beginning with free online presentations to describe the program and what people will gain in the 4-part online series we are planning to offer in March 2025.

We are also offering an Art of Hosting Conversations that Matter 2 day Intensive in Bloomington, MN on February 27 and 28, 2025. It is a nourishing program in a supported space where people learn and experience patterns and practices to improve facilitation and hosting skills and is particularly attuned to the times we are living and working in.

I have deepened my spiritual practice as a way to stay grounded and present. In this vein, Dana Pearlman and I are co-creating a series of spiritual and magical offerings under the umbrella of the Inner Wisdom Lab. We are currently creating a self-guided program called Invoking Magic, Healing and Spiritual Power Through Ritual Practices with the Elements. It is full of goodness and offers practical guidance on how to stay focused and elevated above the fray of these times. I can’t wait for us to make it live in the world.

The Inner Wisdom Lab that Dana Pearlman and I are building is a refuge for those of us wanting to deepen our spiritual practice of connecting with our higher selves, inner wisdom and knowledge. You can join the FB group or check out the YouTube Channel where we have an Inner Wisdom Playlist. Specifically, you can check out this short video where Dana and I share what our post US election emotional experience has been along with what we are doing to nourish ourselves.

Shades of Life Conversations, posted on this YouTube playlist, where Jerry Nagel, Tenneson Woolf and I show up and riff off of what has our attention in the moment. A number of those conversations focus on the power of story, patterns and trends that we are seeing and how we nurture ourselves or others. These are longer conversations, suitable to accompany a coffee or lunch break, doing the dishes or making dinner. We also had a post US election call and you can find it here.

A few of the writers, authors, poets and groups I find inspiring:

My news and social media consumption has dropped off starkly in the last months, which is great. It gives me more time to create, to focus on what is within my control and what can I offer now.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes wrote, “One of the most calming and powerful actions you can do to intervene in a stormy world is to stand up and show your soul. Soul on deck shines like gold in dark times. The light of the soul throws sparks, can send up flares, builds signal fires, causes proper matters to catch fire. To display the lantern of soul in shadowy times like these – to be fierce and to show mercy toward others; both are acts of immense bravery and greatest necessity.”

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