By Valerie Brown, JD, MA, PCC In the 1940s, psychologists Kenneth and Mamie Clark designed and conducted a series of experiments known colloquially as “the doll tests” to study the psychological … [Read More...] about The Two Percent
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Pilgrimage: Awakening the ‘Inner Life’ of Leadership
“When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it.” […]
Leadership & Ritual
By Valerie Brown, JD, MA, PCC Recently, I was part of a webinar in a year-long online learning course on transformational leadership. We opened the session with a ritual practice For a […]
Look up!
Cultivating a kinder world by reorienting your vision.
Ghost Ranch: A “Thin Place”
Ghost Ranch is a place that gives voice to ‘your whole self’, to ponder the big questions of life purpose, meaning, and direction.
Retreat: A World Within Our Reach
“….Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach. Any […]
Because of Them, We Can
“Our goal is to create a beloved community, and this will require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.” – Dr. Martin […]
The Mindful, Reflective School Leader
The effectiveness of mindfulness practices on students and teachers is supported by hundreds of empirical studies and many organizations specialize in helping teachers and students bring mindfulness into the classroom […]
Coming to Light: Cultivating Clarity for Leaders through the Quaker Clearness Committee
The clearness committee, developed by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), is an individual and communal process of spiritual discernment, an instrument to understand the movement of God […]
Pilgrimage: A Path of Practice for the New Activism
It was a long day on El Camino, The Way of Saint James, the famed thousand-year old pilgrimage route across the north of Spain. I set out at daybreak and […]
Fly Fishing & Leadership Lessons
Fly-fishing looks effortless but that’s deceiving. It’s an intensely complex process. The angler needs to know exactly the right ‘fly’ to cast to lure fish. She needs to know how to cast, […]