January 16, 2025

Posted at 15:38h in Blog

Why focus on leading with compassion now? Because the degree of suffering in the world is reaching a crescendo. At the individual level we have crises of addiction, mental health, and loneliness. Employee engagement is at an 11-year low. Communities and countries are breaking apart because of toxic divisions, and the global refugee population, almost half children, has doubled in the past 10 years. Entire towns are washed away, and neighborhoods are burned to ash from natural disasters, with many lives lost (May Los Angeles find relief and recover soon). And,...

October 25, 2023

Posted at 08:00h in Blog

The shadow is often viewed as everything about us we would rather hide away from ourselves and the view of others and society. It can also represent aspects of ourselves we are unaware of in part or unconscious to completely, our blind spots. Carl Jung, the psychologist who originated the archetype of the shadow, said it “personifies everything we refuse to acknowledge about ourselves.” Jung also famously said “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”...