by Dr. Chris Johnson | Dec 1, 2020 | Consciousness, Mindfulness, Resilience |
Prior to COVID-19 descending last spring, our lives were so oriented around time that we were hard-pressed to leave home without our posse of electronic devices strapped on, tucked in and gripped by our hands. We’d learned to live our lives by the clock, allowing...
by Dr. Chris Johnson | Oct 1, 2020 | Consciousness, Mindfulness, Purpose |
Life is all about choices. As Kenny Rogers famously crooned in his song, The Gambler: “You’ve got to know when to hold ’em Know when to fold ’em Know when to walk away And know when to run” It can be a bit like a giant card game: we’re...
by Brian Fippinger | Sep 16, 2020 | Consciousness, Embodied Leadership, Mindfulness |
Sitting in my home office near Chicago this morning, you can feel the transition beginning. Fall is near. Looking out the front windows at my wife’s garden, you can see the transition happening. The leaves on the trees, and her plants, are changing color. Some are...
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...