In conversation with Chaim yesterday he mentioned, almost in passing, letting go to "life’s intricate dance".
I’ve been thinking about his words - and thought you might also like to.
As I sit and write I also recall a line from Dr. Seuss’s Oh The Places You’ll Go "I’m afraid that some times you’ll play lonely [...]

I just saw this image and was reminded of something I wanted to blog about almost 2 years ago - "everyone can draw"

If you ask a child if they can draw they will likely say ‘yes’ and grin. They will also likely go draw you something and expect you to see what it is and [...]

"…There is a famous story told of a child who continually annoyed his father. In desperation the father took a map of the world, tore it into many pieces and told his son to put the puzzle pieces back together to make the map of the world.
Knowing the child had not learned what the [...]

This being human is a guest house

Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still treat each guest [...]

"The world of two. Now one" - Natalie Shell
More in storyworld - above is my first play with nanotales - 6 line stories and so forth. Certainly it isn’t Hemingway’s:
"Baby Shoes. For Sale. Never Worn" 
 But it is fun to practice and I thought it was a good entry into this article on Nanotales in The [...]

Greetings from London! So I have had the pleasure of England the last few weeks and the privilege of staying with some fabulous friends and families so thank you! Have resisted the internet for the most part but today wanted to share some things I’m thinking and seeing:
Banksy: I may be a bit late [...]

What happens to you when you are giving / watching a presentation? How does that differ from how you feel, think and act when you are part of a conversation?
Summary: Next time you are considering giving a presentation, why not look at facilitating a conversation instead?
More indepth:
A story/example:
I was invited to a "dialogue" - a facilitated generative conversation [...]

A thought from a phone conversation with a friend today on reality being more than meets the eye
"Not everything that can be seen is real/true, and not everything that is real/true can be seen" - me (Natalie Shell)
(thanks to Einstein for the syntax: Not everything that can be counted, counts, and not everything that [...]

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes" - Marcel Proust
Am wanting to create some form of 6 thinking hats equivalent with lens…ie you pop something over your eyes and thus can only think a particular way…I think different ways of thinking take practice, or else, [...]

This post is a summary, mostly to serve as a reminder, of some of my thinking at this time about complex and simple…
The Short: An Analogy
Today we live in a world that would prefer to eat a table spoon of white sugar over digesting an apple for instance, and in the digestion ending up with [...]