Tag: courage

On the Capacity to Take Initiative

In July of 1998 my wife and I left the safety of North American living to start a new adventure living Brazil. There is nothing that really prepares you for arriving in a place where your language, which you are so competent in, has no value in day to day living. When we arrived in …

Freeing Up Your Positive Future: How to Own Your Future

I have been called into the director’s office. I know it is going to be bad. No one is called into this director’s office to be congratulated. I try to get into a supremely calm state of being, but the fear is creeping in. He begins his lashing out including telling me that no one …

Living Life as a Metaphor: Interpreting Your Life as if it were a Dream

Below is a picture of my youngest grandchild being on a surfboard for the first time in her life.    She was so ready to stand and ride a wave that after only about the third wave she stood right up and felt  hugely exhilarated.   After several more successful waves, she was beaming with confidence. In …

The Virtue of Courage

In the last few weeks I have spend a lot of time with children teaching them about courage using the medium of rock climbing as the tool for its development.   Even though I have done this for 10 years now, it never ceases to amaze me how fast a child can go from being in …

Dreamwork in the Body

Every year when I go to Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada, my son-in-laws and I do some kind of boys day out where we hike or mountain bike.   This year we climbed the Chief in Squamish which is just north of Vancouver.  Shane runs a company called Dare to Evolve  He asked me if I …