by Daniel | Oct 17, 2025 | Awareness, Civil Society, Democracy, Educational Design, Perception, Ukraine, Working with youth
7 June 2025 On Saturday morning we left Kyiv, traveling a couple hours north into the country. It was notable to me that we passed only one apparent military facility; Katya explained to me that the Ukrainian military has very carefully decentralized its operations...
by Daniel | Sep 25, 2025 | Awareness, Civil Society, Democracy, Education, Storytelling, Ukraine
(This post will make much more sense if you read A Journey of the Heart to Ukraine and A Journey of the Heart #2 first!) 6 June 2025 After a very disrupted night, the day began (again) around 9am. Katya and I walked to breakfast at a pleasant little eatery about a...
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...
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...
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...
by Daniel | Jun 30, 2022 | Awareness, Civil Society, Climate Crisis, Democracy, Educational Design, Metacrisis, Nature, Storytelling
Grief – raw and fresh Over the past few weeks, I’ve been meditating on the topic of grief. My heart has been heavy with the fate of those kids in Texas… who will never again collect fireflies. Never go off jumps on their bikes. Never catch snowflakes on their...
