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Posts Tagged ‘Jen Cohen’

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

February 3rd, 2012    -    No Comments

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…


Team Building Leadership

November 4th, 2011    -    No Comments

Team building gets a lot of lip service in leadership circles. In this article, we turn the process on its head. When a team can look at itself, and regularly reflect on all four of the levels discussed here, getting its context, values, outcomes and practices aligned, they will have the makings of a topRead the Rest…


To Be or Not To Be Satisfied

November 1st, 2011    -    No Comments

Being satisfied at work is a no-no. Really? In the past week I have spoken to three senior executive women who are actually satisfied with where they are in their careers. Refreshing, right? Here comes the twist: each of them feels that they have to hide their satisfaction, that it would give the wrong impressionRead the Rest…


Reflections, from the frontier of No Impact Week

October 7th, 2011    -    No Comments

Discoveries and Insights about Trash 90% of the trash I make comes from prepared foods we eat that are packaged in non-recyclable material. The other 10% is tissues and q-tips, which I learned from my neighbor during this experiment that I can put in my compost. Everything else, a pretty high quantity can be recycled.Read the Rest…


In the News: Hurricane Irene

September 9th, 2011    -    1 Comment

How would I tell the story about Hurricane Irene if I were a reporter and standing in exquisite sufficiency? In our consumer culture, news is crafted to sell and entertain as much as it is to inform. While listening to the hurricane reports I heard: Reeling Devastated Washed away Damaged “It’s not worsening but it’sRead the Rest…



In Response to the Death of Osama Bin Laden

May 5th, 2011    -    6 Comments

The day after 9/11/2001 I wrote to my community about the impact of trauma on our hearts and mind and bodies, and how we could, in our own ways each day following these events, take good care of ourselves and each other. What resonates in me after Bin Laden’s assassination, and the subsequent jubilation inRead the Rest…


How Sufficiency Looks in My Life Today

February 1st, 2011    -    No Comments

How Sufficiency Looks in My Life Today 2/1/11: Today I am sitting at my desk, watching the gorgeous snow fall and fall while I have this pressure in my back and this nagging voice in my mind telling me I don’t have enough time to get it all done. As I go through my day,Read the Rest…


Social fabric: stuck between 2 contexts

September 3rd, 2010    -    No Comments

Then I saw it. That is how it all works. I have to have one of everything and you have to have one of everything because we don’t have a clear social contract about the norms. Or I guess you could say the social contract we do have is about each person for him/herself so I am going against that contract by even making such a request. I could see the whole territory I have to traverse just to borrow one tool, one lousy tool. And I could see how I would rather have my own tool than confront this relatively simple set of transactions. So how then will I get the courage to have conversations about matters much closer to the heart? How will I get the courage up to break down some much larger barrier erected by this culture of separation? How will I find what I need to re-weave that social fabric so my sharing with my neighbor is more relevant than all of the noise I find in the context of separation?


driving and social fabric

August 9th, 2010    -    2 Comments

What is it, I thought, that has someone react with such venom when someone else is clearly under enormous stress? Isn’t that stress, or distress, the source of their erratic and disturbing behavior in the first place? I think that our sense of knowing each other, our sense that each person is doing their best at any given moment, that we are somehow in this together, is hidden from our view and missing in our hearts. This hole in our social fabric, this fraying of our knowing each other, of our sense of deep and real connection to all living being, permits us not to notice, or to even assume the best. This tear in the social fabric makes it ok to beep and yell and gesture in ways that only cause more harm.


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