human-heartedness

Nov
14
Impatient Leaders, Weary Minds: Why Skipping Self-Care Sabotages Your Influence

Impatient Leaders, Weary Minds: Why Skipping Self-Care Sabotages Your Influence

How do you feel right now? * Do you feel physically rested, or are your thoughts confused, leaving you with a
3 min read
Nov
07
Why Anger Is Selfish — How to Lead From Unconscious Goodness Instead

Why Anger Is Selfish — How to Lead From Unconscious Goodness Instead

For many of us, the results of the election in the United States on Wednesday, November 6, 2024 were disheartening.
1 min read
Aug
31
If You Don’t FEEL Well, You Can’t LEAD Well

If You Don’t FEEL Well, You Can’t LEAD Well

Change-Leadership Supports Part 2 — Love (again!), Empathy, Actualization, and Direction.
3 min read
Jul
03
[Video] All Polarization and Binaries Have a Central Point of Origin

[Video] All Polarization and Binaries Have a Central Point of Origin

How do we reconcile polarities like right versus wrong and good versus bad? With so many extreme challenges and divisive
1 min read
Mar
16
From Attack to Empathy: Practicing Humility and Impartial Witnessing on Social Media

From Attack to Empathy: Practicing Humility and Impartial Witnessing on Social Media

All social transformation starts with personal transformation.
2 min read
Mar
02
To Understand the Concept of ‘Good,’ We Must Accept the Mutually Arising Polarity of ‘Bad’.

To Understand the Concept of ‘Good,’ We Must Accept the Mutually Arising Polarity of ‘Bad’.

Conscientious humane action requires that we navigate the space in-between what is ‘good and bad’ to minimize harm caused to others by remaining too long at unnatural extremes.
2 min read
Feb
27
What Does It Mean to Be a Virtuous Person and How Is that Different From a Person of Good Character?

What Does It Mean to Be a Virtuous Person and How Is that Different From a Person of Good Character?

We live in a social media age where morality and ethics are demonstrated as virtue-signalling memes or thumbs-up emoticons — often
2 min read
Feb
24
What Is the Distinction Between Values and Virtues? One Leads to Deliberate and Thoughtful Action

What Is the Distinction Between Values and Virtues? One Leads to Deliberate and Thoughtful Action

Practicing the virtues expressed in the Tao Te Ching is not for appearances, recognition, or validation. These are actions that
2 min read
Feb
07
Is the Tao Te Ching Still Relevant Today, and Why Would You Care to Read it?

Is the Tao Te Ching Still Relevant Today, and Why Would You Care to Read it?

The Tao Te Ching is implicitly a queer text, one that has been an ethics of the marginalized and the oppressed. Through simple metaphors and observations of nature, the Tao Te Ching offers a powerful virtue ethics philosophy for our common humanity, one that challenges the status quo.
3 min read
Sep
15
Contemplative Reflections on Connection, Sex, and Liberation

Contemplative Reflections on Connection, Sex, and Liberation

Part 2: The celebration of diversity to cultivate human connection and understanding. Following my first post in this series, Acceptance
1 min read