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Exploring Ideas

Horizons

We love sunrises and sunsets, a mountain range in the distance, a lightning weave, and a nighttime cityscape. Horizons provide more than amazing...

Human Services

Gathering Meaning

‘Tis the season when neighbors' needs are highlighted and responded to at the highest for the year. How do you ensure meaning from the busy?

Case Management

Managing Cases, Tracking Outcomes

We can assume less when we create avenues to learn more. Technology can help us when we intentionally set it up to tell an accurate and complete...

Community Development

Cultivate

What good do you desire to grow in your community? Do you know if it needs to be planted or if it already exists? You COULD create the talk of the...

Community Development

Purposeful Disruption

Purposefully disrupt the norm and then design something for your community’s good that will leave them celebrating and shaking their heads in...

Leadership Development

When Clutter Overwhelms

Do clutter and disorder impede you and reduce effectiveness at home, work, or within your organization? How long have you lived with it that way?

Exploring Ideas

Levers, Wedges, and Catalysts

Creating movement and positive progress with people and communities can be challenging. Two steps forward and five back. Can chemistry and physics...

Human Services

Underneath

From seemingly out of nowhere comes the verbal assault. You never met until today but are responded to as a long-lost enemy due retribution. Now what?

Exploring Ideas

Rhythms

The rhythms of life are inescapable. Birth eventually leads to death, day turns to night, and Sunday leads to Saturday, always giving seven days a...

Collaboration

WE

Community. Neighbors. Together. More than me. More than you. Us. We. Let’s examine what happens when we walk over time with FAITH in one another.

Community Development

Bring It!

Being out front in community work is hard. The visionary activator makes things happen, but not without enormous demands. Is it worth it? Why keep...

Leadership Development

Attitudinal Current

Wise leaders are aware and know how to attitude correct (self) and attitude influence (others). Do you know the flow and impacts of your attitudes?

Community Development

Crisis, Convergence, and Concentration

What if you shifted into crisis response on a significant problem in your community? Convergence can concentrate availability of work and resources.

Leadership Development

Start Small

A small hiccup can have results that are more like a bad stomach virus if you go too big too fast. It's "Go big, or go home!" right? Not so much.

Leadership Development

Overcome Impossible

Frustrated by nothing changing? To bring shifts to your community, someone needs to see what others don't and risk what others won't. I dare you.

Community Development

Journey to Believing

Meeting people where they are and being on a journey with them from an underground space is an art. It necessitates a safe atmosphere, not forceful.

Collaboration

Speed of Focus

Focus: center of activity or attention; point of concentration; condition permitting clear perception or understanding; adjustment for distinct...

Collaboration

What You See (Part 2): The Solution

The expansiveness of solution possibilities can be a powerful source of ideas. But you have to see them to unleash them. Cultivate seeing a new way.

Collaboration

What You See (Part 1): The Problem

In all our efforts to find solutions for our problems, perhaps our greatest challenge is seeing the problem itself. It's quite the puzzle.

Collaboration

Art of Conversation

Healthy communities are built through conversations. What would happen if we had more of them, getting to know each other better? Let’s work on it.

Collaboration

Power of Together

Moving from community resource sharing to solution creating is easier said than done. The results are worth the investment.

Leadership Development

Burn Again

How hot is the fire for your work, for your community impact, and even for your own life? Grown a little cold? Let’s help you burn again!

Human Services

Holding Out Hope

As one who holds out hope to others, how do you ensure you don’t run out? In this article, four areas are offered as nurturing elements for your life.

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