Common Thread Coaching & Consulting

02/12/2022

Interesting article on burnout, culture, systemic issues, workplace compassion, and misconceptions around self-care.

We need to address the systemic and cultural dimensions of burnout

02/08/2022

Scott Shute, the head of Mindfulness and Compassion at LinkedIn, shares simple gestures that can help foster compassion in our communities.

07/23/2021

This poem captures the why behind my business name. Love it!

Stanley Kunitz was 95 years old when he wrote a beautiful poem called “The Layers.” https://tinyurl.com/yx5jreus Among its most moving lines are these: “How shall the heart be reconciled / to its feast of losses?”

Most of us who have the good fortune to live into our seventies and beyond have known that “feast of losses," and must find some way to embrace it. My attempt to make peace with loss took me to writing this poem, whose title is a line I woke up with one morning.

“Everything falls away” is not an inspiring thought, but I think it has the redeeming virtue of being true. Whenever I’m able to start with truth—grounded in reality—I usually find that I’m taken to a place of hope, even beauty.

For me, at least, that’s where this poem ends up. May all who know loss come to know the hope and beauty found on the other side of loss...

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06/08/2021

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04/05/2021

It's not fear that gets in the way of daring leadership, it's armor. How do we self-protect when we feel uncertain, afraid, or vulnerable? Is our armor perfectionism, being the knower, shame/blame, reacting versus thoughtful responding, action bias . . .?

Dropping the first of a two-part solo special on Daring versus Armored leadership on the Dare to Lead podcast today. spoti.fi/DareToLead

02/19/2021

What don’t you need?

02/18/2021

What do you need?

02/11/2021

Mindset shift