Teaching Empathic Intelligence to Teens: Part 1 – The Fairy Tale Game

Summary: This post describes an exercise I use with teens for developing their expanded knowing called the Fairy Tale Game. My work is oriented towards one goal: that all humans access their Expanded Knowing. Gratefully, since this is a natural part of our humanness, accessing it is actually quite simple - and even more so…

The Clever Idea of Money

The Emergent Future and the Emergent Past My wise friend and Systemic Constellations colleague Diana Claire Douglas (https://knowingfielddesigns.com/), shared on a recent call that, "in a collective constellation, if I place a representative for the emergent future, I also place a representative for the emergent past ... The emergent future is connected to the emergent…

Rage, Grief and Activism

The Constellation I was one of a small group of facilitators invited to do a systemic constellation around racism. The facilitator, Judy Wallace, asked us to generate a list of what should be represented. With the group size we had, we decided on White Power, Black Bodies, Child, Earth, Poor White Person. I was the one…

A Truth and a Lie

“Help! I need an emergency consultation!” The person calling is a wise and thoughtful leader in her organization. She explained that she was amidst end of year fundraising, and scheduling meetings to review her organization’s performance and direction. But the reason for her call was that she was angry, and she couldn’t get over it.…

The First Time: Awe

February 18, 2012 - Hampden, CT I showed up at the workshop with a combination of butterflies in my stomach and a heaviness in my chest. The butterflies were excitement, but the heaviness in my chest was less clear to me. I had done a little research, so I had a general idea of what…