It’s a big week for celebrating nature with Earth Day today and Arbor Day on Friday. Each year in spring we are reminded we live in the Earth, not on the Earth, and with the trees and animals versus seeing them as nature’s attractions. We are all nature, and my hope is we soon come to our senses and take care of the Earth and ourselves in the process. I find lately my hope is chased by my fear it’s too late to change our destructive ways of living with the...

What if feeling overwhelmed was mostly in our heads? What would change if we became aware that “being” overwhelmed was a state of mind? And, what would it be like if we could simply walk away from our overwhelmed state of mind? There are many ways to approach being overwhelmed. For simplicity’s sake, I’ll break down the contributing factors into two buckets—what’s out there (our external environment, our world of relationships and systems), and what’s in here (our beliefs, thoughts, and emotions about the world out there)....

We know all relationships end, no matter how much we want them to last. We experience this self-evident truth when there is a breakup with a partner or friend, a valued employee leaves, or the ultimate ending, the death of a family member. All endings are inevitable and necessary to make way for new beginnings....

Ken Giglio, Principal of Mindful Leadership Consulting, PCC and certified coach supervisor, and Lynne De Lay, the Coach’s Coach, co-lead supervision groups for coaches based on Ken’s  Tri-Lens Coaching Supervision Model™. Their next group will meet February 21, 2024. Each two-hour session provides executive coaches a great opportunity to reflect on coaching cases together with colleagues to gain insights into work with clients...

As I see it, the preeminent question for our time is – how will we cultivate peace in ourselves, with others, and in our world? Peace feels out of reach right now. Every day the news brings us a drumbeat of despair and desperation—so many lives lost to war, and so much vitriol in our society. Detaching from the news does not change the reality the world is in deep pain. For me, when I see children suffering and dying, it breaks my heart....

By Ken Giglio, Principal of Mindful Leadership Here in Northeastern area of the United States, it is Fall, a season named for the falling leaves of deciduous trees. Every year here, as in many areas of the world, trees go through a natural, seasonal change in which their green leaves turn all variations of red, yellow, orange, and brown. This year's seasonal change is nearly complete locally. Shag hickories and beeches showed us gold and bronze hues, while oaks turned deep red to dull brown. In October, sugar maples gave us...