There is a lot of conversation these days about psychological safety. What is it, and how do we create it? To quote Dr. Timothy Clark, you can sum it up in five words; “Psychological safety is an environment of rewarded vulnerability.” What comes to your mind when you consider the idea that vulnerability is either […]
A client recently shared that he was worried he was using alcohol to relieve his stress. To make sure he wasn’t drinking too much he declared to Donna: “I will not drink more than two beers each night.” “What do you want to create?” Donna asked. He looked puzzled and said, “I want to eliminate […]
I (Donna) could not be more thrilled to share the exciting news that my new book will be published on March 3! This book follows our teaching story format and is entitled: Who Do You Want to Be on the Way to What You Want: Coaching with The Empowerment Dynamic. My hope in writing and […]
You think your thoughts. Right? Nope. You feel your thoughts. A thought is a transient mental sentence you say to yourself inside your mind. What follows is a story or impression about your thought. The result is a feeling or sensation in your body that is evoked in response to your story. In other […]
We are taking a pause from our usual weekly blog so we can share some really great news that we are over-the-top excited about. It’s been more than 15 years, four websites, three books, hundreds of workshops, and webinars that brings us to today and the announcement of the new Center for The Empowerment Dynamic! […]
Wouldn’t it be great if we could just snap our fingers and all that we do not like about other people would suddenly change? The thing is, while you are snapping your fingers, other people may be snapping theirs trying to get you to change! Most of us spend time trying to figure out how […]
“Awe is the feeling of being in the presence of something vast or beyond human scale, that transcends our current understanding of things,” says Nobel Prize winning psychologist Dr. Dacher Keltner. Awe might feel like a sudden sensation of the extraordinary when you gaze upon a newborn baby, look at the stars on a clear […]
How do your creative thoughts become reality? How do you move beyond procrastinating and get into action? For an idea to grow beyond just a thought stuck in your head, you must get into action. Many people never get their great ideas out of their brains, onto paper, and into reality. For an idea to […]
Last week we encouraged you to take the time in this New Year to create from your deepest longings. This week we are excited to share valuable secrets about how to create from your longings—or create anything for that matter! Dynamic Tension is the powerful structure for creating outcomes first made popular by Robert Fritz […]
In last week’s essay, we suggested a specific tip to interrupt your reactive, drama-filled behavior by “Naming 5 Red Things.” That tip was focused on how you can limit your drama. What about being with others when they are having a “drama attack?” What do you do? What do you say? We have several suggestions, but […]