Feelings are always genuine

“Feelings are always genuine” stated Michel, a participant in one of the Transformational Coaching workshop I facilitated last week. We were discussing the issue of giving feedback to people with the intention of “enhancing their effectiveness in a way that they feel helped” (our working definition of coaching with heart). With this simple statement, Michel reminded us that […]

Love After Love

Perhaps because of my many trips to St. Lucia over the past 2 years, I have decided to reacquaint myself with the only Caribbean Nobel Laureate in Literature – Derek Walcott. I have fallen in love with this poem, which is one of his most well-known. It speaks to my soul. Love After Love The […]

Intentions

One of the sagest pieces of advice I ever received was from the reknown transformational guru Anthony Robbins. In a seminar I attended he said, “Never question someone’s intentions”. When we question others intentions, all we are doing is making up our own stories about what we think their intentions are. We are trying to make […]

How does one live to be 109 years old?

My friend, Alice Herz-Sommer knows how. She’s my friend, even though I have never met her. For whenever I see her photograph or a YouTube clip I feel a connection born out of our shared love of life, of laughter, of living. She is exactly who I want to be when I “grow up”. I blogged about Alice […]