Two nights ago I had another wild surfing dream where I was not only surfing waves, but also in all kinds of buildings and stairs. You name it, I was surfing on it. If you read the last post, https://dreamsforpeace.org/2025/09/22/my-surfing-dream-riding-the-way-of-the-cutting-edge/, you will know that surfing is a metaphor for riding the cutting edge of your …
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You probably won’t get much out of this post unless you read the the three previous ones. Take your time to go back and study them. Encouragement as a process is largely centered in the ability to remember positives in the past and hold them in memory for a long time. Having clear access to …
Despite the fact that parents and administrators and well, just about all us, rely heavily on criticism as the main tool in trying to get other to change, the research has consistently shown that it is completely ineffectively. About one in ten people can use criticism constructively. What happens to the rest, to the 80-90% …
Richard Hastings is an expert in change work and dream work and author of Dreams for Peace. He is a 
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