http://creativefacilitating.com/blog Being the Future Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:09:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A client wanted to explore being calm. The client already knew a path to calm and needed reinforced to use it - breathing, deep breathing in particular. A practice of just a very minutes of deep breathing a day will make it available when one really needs it. The ... http://creativefacilitating.com/blog/2012/01/18/stillness-as-a-path/ I thought the time had passed to write about stillness, that it needed to happen in the depth of December at our lowest light level or at the turn of the year. Today when I was driving and listening to an audio book I heard a character refer to ... http://creativefacilitating.com/blog/2012/01/14/stillness/ This past week The Washington Post and AP picked up on an experiment conducted by scientists at Cornell University. It involved masking an event by having it occur in a way that the speed of light would not bring it to observers' eyes or attention. The articles also ... http://creativefacilitating.com/blog/2012/01/08/a-hole-in-time-and-uncertainty/ I was listening to a jazz performance last night of Nasar Abadey (drums), James King (bass) and Allyn Johnson (piano), all out of DC, and Azar Lawrence (saxaphones) from California. The first piece they played is one of Nasar's called "Covenant". I thought I was hearing a covenant ... http://creativefacilitating.com/blog/2011/12/11/covenants/ As a friend of mine spoke with a group of us last night about polarities the discussion called to mind a concern I had just been hearing about work-life balance. When I hear anyone mention "work life balance" I hear it as a shorthand expression for some larger concern ... http://creativefacilitating.com/blog/2011/12/01/balance-or-excellence/ Whether the event in question is a client experience to facilitate, as it sometimes is with me and my colleagues, or a presentation, or a meeting discussion, there is a time to prepare and there is a time when preparation needs to be complete so one can perform. Another ... http://creativefacilitating.com/blog/2011/10/06/a-time-to-prepare-and-a-time-to-perform/ The recent deluge of rain in the DC area (with big apologies to my friends in Texas!) reminds me of the gypsy curse, "May you get what you wish for," and the popularized version, "Be careful what you wish for, you might get it." It had been too hot ... http://creativefacilitating.com/blog/2011/09/08/careful-about-wishes-too-much-or-just-right/ Our US national government entered its new fiscal year October 1, 2010. We still don't have a budget. I struggle to understand how Congress members can think this is something to write home about. True, the budget of any organization, be it a government, a business or a ... http://creativefacilitating.com/blog/2011/04/06/federal-budget-and-false-economies/ Sometimes when I am doggedly pursuing a path nothing seems to happen, nothing changes. It is as if I am a glacier, determined to go in that particular direction, and the rate at which I overpower obstacles is just that-- glacial. What would be an opposite way of approaching the ... http://creativefacilitating.com/blog/2011/03/25/be-like-a-stream-a-lesson-from-nature/ It looks like everyone enjoys surprising fun and the chance to be creative. I have to share this video about how some engineers encouraged people to take the stairs in a subway station. I love it. This is a subway station in Sweden, now with a piano ... http://creativefacilitating.com/blog/2011/01/26/fun-and-creativity/