Organizational stakeholders today are inundated with consultants, workshops, and materials promising quick cures for ailing cultures. I’ve encountered several of these “cures” in the form of books, mottos, and models. Radical candor, conversation, listening, focus, love, even radical dharma. Embodied listening, leadership, cognition. Authentic leadership, communication, listening. Crucial conversations, difficult conversations, candid conversations, authentic DOWNLOAD PDF The post Granting Being: The Impact of Being Seen, Heard, and Acknowledged appeared first on Bhavana Learning Group ..read more

When we describe someone as generous or acting with generosity, we are experiencing a giving person. Synonyms of generous include liberality, magnanimity, abundance, amplitude, largesse, unselfishness, kindness, beneficence, and even hospitality. And yet, I find these definitions and synonyms confusing because they miss the fundamental truth of generosity—an openness that begins with letting go. DOWNLOAD PDF The post Generosity—The Mind of Letting Go appeared first on Bhavana Learning Group ..read more

The annual World Happiness Report has ranked nations on an international happiness index since 2011. Published last month, the 2023 report ranks Finland as the happiest country in the world—for the sixth consecutive year! Many opinions exist, but if you ask Finns why they are happy, you’ll discover some pretty basic insights that begin DOWNLOAD PDF The post Becoming “Enough” to Create Satisfaction appeared first on Bhavana Learning Group ..read more

As first defined by William Davies of LRB, the term reaction economy best fits the lives we all navigate. To quote Davies, “Each of us becomes a junction box in a vast, complex network, receiving, processing, and emitting information in a semiautomatic fashion, and in real-time.” Reactive Spaces Davies focused on reactions such as DOWNLOAD PDF The post Creating Space to Access Wisdom Daily appeared first on Bhavana Learning Group ..read more

Wisdom seems so elusive. I remember encountering the notion of wisdom three decades ago in a philosophy course. I felt a strong pull at my heart to seek this out, yet also a sinking dilemma: How do you make a living using wisdom? Much of my dilemma was rooted in unexamined socialized beliefs such DOWNLOAD PDF The post Developing Wisdom: <em>Four Models for Unlearning Common Myths</em> appeared first on Bhavana Learning Group ..read more

The notion of slowing down has become a common refrain over the past decade. And at the beginning of a new year, it makes sense to contemplate our pace of life. Reflecting on the speed of change and volume of information and complexity can leave us more fragmented. Between new year’s resolutions, self-imposed goals, DOWNLOAD PDF The post Slowing Down: Letting Go, Letting Be, Letting Come appeared first on Bhavana Learning Group ..read more