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Healing-Centered Leadership Blog
Articles on healing-centered leadership and burnout recovery, weaving somatic wisdom, play, storytelling, and nature-based leadership into everyday practice.
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The Process of Becoming
Carl Rogers, a fifteen-year-old tattoo, and the spiral: why we are always in the process of becoming, and why that is the heart of healing-centered leadership.
Where the Heat Meets the Flow
What the runoff at Grand Prismatic Spring teaches us about integration: carrying our history into the current of our lives instead of venting it or burying it.
Plans Rarely Go As Imagined: What a 17-Hour Travel Day Reminded Me About Leadership
A cancelled flight, an overbooked plane, and a broken jet bridge: what a chaotic travel day reveals about leading through uncertainty with a regulated nervous system.
Is Leadership Coaching Right for You? A Guide for Every Kind of Leader
What leadership coaching is, how somatic coaching differs, and why "leader" includes emerging leaders, burnt-out leaders, people in transition, parents, and caregivers.
Authentic Leadership: What the GrassRoots Festival Can Teach Us About Letting Go
Volunteering as a somatic coach at GrassRoots, I kept hearing the same thing: "I finally get to be myself." What would it take to make work feel that way?
What Is Somatics — And Why Should Leaders Care?
Leadership doesn't just happen in the mind; it happens in the body. An introduction to somatics, the nervous system, and embodied leadership.
Beyond "Serious Work": Why Play Is the Engine of Innovation
Play isn't the opposite of work; it's the engine of innovation. The biology and neuroscience of play, plus four simple practices for you and your team.
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