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Moving, A Practice in Sufficiency

If only sufficiency was a panacea. Some radical potion we could take that would annihilate all the weapons of scarcity we breed. But, alas, sufficiency exists in fleeting moments of grace, until we take it on as a practice. My latest practice event occurred in the context of moving. I have never moved a familyRead the Rest…

The Birth of the Weapons of Scarcity

In our work with sufficiency and enough-ness at Seven Stones, I have seen many colleagues, clients, friends and organizations get stuck inside scarcity. They seem to deny, or not notice, that scarcity exists for them or they are so stuck in scarcity thinking that it becomes too difficult to create a lasting context of sufficiency,Read the Rest…

Creation Devotion Action, a practice

We have a practice at Seven Stones we call Creation Devotion Action. These domains serve as a way for us to understand and track our lives, our doings, beings and havings inside of the path of sufficiency. We use these distinctions to create our year, our month, our week and our days. We crafted theseRead the Rest…

The Truth Will See Set You Free

In early 2011 Seven Stones hired a wonderful young woman to support some of our work. She is a fabulous person – smart, capable, passionate. Great. As we moved through the year and she began to articulate her real passions, we began to see her strengths and limitations, and we all began to wonder aboutRead the Rest…

Gossip: The Power of Stories

It’s been a long time since I was advised to end my habit of gossiping, but such is being human. From eyeing People Magazine at the check out counter to rolling my eyes at a friend in knowing disbelief at another’s snafu to voicing frustration about how a project is being lead to another team memberRead the Rest…

Declaring I Am Enough

If you paused in this moment and asked yourself what is enough? How would you answer that question? Where in your life do you have enough? Can you name one place where you know that all is well? When is the last time you said, I am enough exactly as I am? For some ofRead the Rest…

The Moment I Donated 10% of What was Left in the Seven Stones Bank Account

A Story of Sufficiency Here was a moment in time when it really did look like there was not enough money. In fact, if we did not do something fast, there really and truly would not have been enough to cover our expenses due. This is what we call structural scarcity. The scarcity – theRead the Rest…

Creating February

The first of the month can be a great time to pause and reflect on the aspirations and intentions we created for ourselves and our organizations for the upcoming year. Many of us chose new habits and behaviors to be established as the year turned –at one month in, let us pause together and assessRead the Rest…

Experiments, Challenges and Inquiries

We transformational consultants are always trying to reframe ideas, make them new, fresh and relevant. For example, New Year’s Resolutions became Goals (1980s) became Intentions (1990s) became Declarations (2000s). Now we play in the domain of Experiments, Challenges and Inquiries. Maybe this is just semantics, or re-invented styles from decades past. Experiments are really justRead the Rest…

One Wild and Precious Life

Although a summer’s day seems far away, I thought that ending 2011 with an inquery from Mary Oliver, would be a great way to complete all there is to complete and provide an opening to create 2012. “Tell us, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”   TheRead the Rest…

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