by Dr. Chris Johnson | Sep 3, 2020 | Consciousness, Mindfulness, Practice
COVID’s tragic impact—on health and the economy, working remotely or job seeking, juggling kids and school, racial strife, and a divisive US election soon—is like nothing we’ve ever had to address (1). Yet, if these past few months of enforced pause have shown us...
by Brian Fippinger | Sep 2, 2020 | Passion, Purpose
This is a picture of one of my favorite places on the planet. Piper’s Alley, in Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood, circa around 1970. It was a place of Hippies, great music, inclusion (heck, I had been going there for a couple of years by that time, and I was only 12 in...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Sep 1, 2020 | Consciousness, Learning, Mindfulness, Purpose
You might be wondering about it, too. “Shouldn’t I be adjusted to this whole pandemic thing by now?” With the uncertainties that COVID’s ushered in, spikes in stress and social isolation, increasing levels of anxiety, and exhaustion are now the norm. What...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Aug 1, 2020 | Embodied Leadership, Learning, Practice
When I met him, Matt was frustrated. “Why don’t they just listen to me?!” A bulk of a man with a booming voice, he’d built his business through sheer will & hard work. He’d made it, despite the odds. He could not, for the life of him, understand the disconnect or...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Jul 1, 2020 | Consciousness, Learning, Practice, Purpose
What’s your score? You know, the number of times ( especially lately ) you’ve hit ‘Send’ on an email or text that was terse and instantly regretted it? Or, how about the number of times when you’re working at home and your spouse or child interrupts to ask what they...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Jun 1, 2020 | Consciousness, Learning, Practice
You’re probably familiar with feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and spent lately. Given the sudden arrival of COVID-19, the state of the economy, stresses on your family and friends, the deaths of 100,000 Americans – and the tragic incidents of racial...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | May 1, 2020 | Consciousness, Practice, Resilience
What are you practicing these days? Whether practice makes perfect (my first-grade teacher said so) or if practice simply makes better (my aikido sensei teaches this), it makes good sense to know what we’re practicing. In fact, as human beings we’re incapable of not...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Apr 1, 2020 | Learning, Mindfulness, Practice
It’s official. Life as we’ve known it is over, at least for the moment. None of us could’ve prepared ourselves for how unsettling the novel coronavirus would be to our daily routines. Our old routines that once seemed drab and repetitive, now fill us with a sense of...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Mar 1, 2020 | Embodied Leadership, Mindfulness, Practice
The tides of change are straining these days; the gravitational pull disrupting traditional ways of leading and doing business. This requires all of us to be on our toes ( what feels like all of the time) . It’s never easy to be a great leader or boss, even in the...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Feb 10, 2020 | Learning, Mindfulness, Practice
I’ll confess. I take them. Do you? Maybe at your doctor’s office while flipping through a magazine. Or when skimming the internet late at night. While checking Facebook or LinkedIn on the train. You come across the quiz that will reveal all. The assessment that...
