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BETWEEN WORLDS. STILL. I ended the year on an uncharacteristically grumbly note. Don't Look Up. The BSAU of ESG. The retreating antarctic ice shelf, the creeping advance of fascism. My usual equanimity and resilience suffered. But I started the year with my most...
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Moods & Messes • When physics meets politics • What I’m reading • Trimtabs
MOODS & MESSES In the last Living Between Worlds zoomsalon of the year, we reflected on the changes the last two years have brought —in the world, and in our selves. And we explored how we move through the messes—tangles that are far more complex than "problems"...
Touch and go | Predicting the Future | A different kind of coaching
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The hidden motto | The unbridgeable gap | Leading from the edge | Gratitude
On our last Living Between Worlds call (the video is here; please subscribe!) we digested the COP26 global climate summit: with a bit of appreciation for the excruciatingly incremental progress that seems to be the only way we know to change—except when we have...
COP26 redux: Multiple perspectives on the Glasgow climate summit
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