Story-Cathching

Writing to Find What Matters Now

I am thrilled to be partnering with Seven Oaks Park to offer a new writing class! In this six week writing workshop, you will learn how to make peace with the Inner Critic and express the thoughts, ideas, stories, dreams, values, and memories that reveal what really matters now, at whatever place you are in…

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Shattering and Mending

I am not a knic-knak person, but this bowl…. I loved the autumnal colors, the perfect size, the understated elegance of it so much that I hung it below the mantel in my dining room. There was nothing striking or attention grabbing about the bowl, yet somehow it brought the room to coherence. Our dining…

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Things I Forgot I Learned

  Every few years, I randomly pull one or two of my old notebooks/journals/lifebooks off the shelf in the back of my closet and revisit my former self, mining the pages for forgotten wisdom and insights. I have been regularly keeping these notebooks, a combination of reflections, mementoes, sketches, wonderings, ideas and drafts,  for more…

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Being Curious: Crosstraining for Heart and Mind, Body and Soul

An ongoing series of posts around Ways of Being that contribute to our becoming whole and healed in heart and mind, body and soul, that support wholehearted engagement with life: relationships, family, work, and world. Curiosity is a quality of mind and heart that prepares human-beings to more easefully transform themselves into their highest possible…

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Cultivating Cross-Fitness of the Heart and Soul

Being human means we are continuously faced with transitions of one sort or another: predictable and unexpected, joyful and painful, easeful and challenging. A big life question is: how can we learn to navigate through change, living lives of resilience and transformation, even transcendence, rather than of so much frustration, reactivity and stuckness? Navigational support…

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What is Wisdom Scout?

  Well, I named my business Wisdom Scout, not because I think I am wise, but because I truly enjoy exploring for wisdom. I revel in the entire process of inquiry, discovery,  investigation and experimentation,  and, finally, synthesis of wise ways of living, leading, and honoring life’ passages. I have lived my life as a…

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Healing through Ritual, Art, and Nature

Ritual, art, and nature are each a powerful and joyful way to heal the body and the soul. When you marry the three, magic happens! I had the privilege and the pleasure, along with Heidi Darr-Hope, of Healing Icons, to lead a healing ritual of co-creating this gorgeous Healing Mandala with the participants of the…

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Celebrating Myself!

  One of my talents in life, one of the things that I love to do more than anything, is bring meaning, joy, and ritual to milestone life events: birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, graduations, memorials, baby welcomings, etc.  I love to create heartfelt, unique celebrations, experiences, and momentoes for family members and friends, colleagues or strangers:…

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