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A Journey of the Heart to Ukraine #2

A Journey of the Heart to Ukraine #2

by Daniel | Aug 29, 2025 | Civil Society, Democracy, Educational Design, Perception, Storytelling, Ukraine

Note to Readers: This narrative is quite long, like the cross country train ride where it begins.  Mostly it’s just my story, augmented by a few reflections about Ukraine’s political and historical reality. Yet it’s a hefty enough chunk of writing that it warrants...
A Journey of the Heart to Ukraine

A Journey of the Heart to Ukraine

by Daniel | Jun 27, 2025 | Civil Society, Democracy, Metacrisis, Ukraine

It was a rough night in Kyiv. I shot straight from sleep into full wakefulness.  The explosions, way too near for comfort, jolted my sensory system alert.  The night felt ominous, surreal;  seared by the sound of drones, sirens, and explosions, the sky alight with...
Becoming the Ground (in a world of crisis)

Becoming the Ground (in a world of crisis)

by Daniel | Jun 3, 2025 | Awareness, Educational Design, Metacrisis, Perception, Teaching

We grow in direct proportion to the amount of chaos we can sustain and dissipate.  ~ Ilya Prigogine   We are living in times of increasing chaos.    However stable our immediate lives may seem, society at large has become widely dysregulated. Things we used...
Opening Up to Emergent Leadership

Opening Up to Emergent Leadership

by Daniel | Oct 30, 2022 | Awareness, Civil Society, Climate Crisis, Democracy, Education, Metacrisis, Perception

Something surprised me in a group discussion recently.  I love surprises:  They have so much to teach us! Our group was meeting on Zoom, planning a workshop on a tight timeline.  We were down to our next-to-last meeting, and it was time to finalize a plan.  The...
It Leads… Where We Lead It.

It Leads… Where We Lead It.

by Daniel | Jul 19, 2022 | Awareness, Civil Society, Democracy, Educational Design, Metacrisis, Nature, Perception

(this is the second part of a two-part essay; if you haven’t already done so, please read “Where Does It All Lead” to get the most out of this piece.) On a rocky hillside, trowel in hand, I went along the rough trail, eyes searching the ground.  Every so often I would...
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