When someone challenges, disagrees with or contradicts you, how do you respond?  Does your body tighten-up or gear-up? Do you withdraw, feel shame, get ...

During a boundary exploration exercise at a workshop last year, I had a moment of profound insight. We were exploring the felt-sense of boundaries in ...

Responding to Charlottesville and other disturbing recent events, I explored the principles of a nonviolent approach to issues of race, privilege and power during our Wednesday morning practice group last ...

While teaching in Bali, I got into a massive power struggle with a 12th grade student (let’s call him James). He went surfing before school ...

A post-it note on my office wall reminds me: “Stop loving people for who they could be, or who you want them to be, and ...

As a child, my father often criticized me for being too idealistic. He said my expectations were too high, that I would live a lifetime ...

When I was 13, my younger sister and I came across a couple of neighbor boys throwing rocks at a bat lying injured on the ...

When we adopted Mr. Whiskerson from the humane society, he was already an old cat with a life-time trauma history. He’d been found neglected and ...

In a village, there once lived a cobra whose bite had taken the lives of many of the people. The leader of the community went ...

This week I have the pleasure of responding directly to a question that someone recently sent me: I was recently having a conversation with my ...