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Befriending Fear Decreases The Need For Force

Several years ago Montgomery County, Alabama, Deputy Sheriff Kevin Murphy spoke about the impact of fear in the police community and in policing itself, during an interview with PBS Special Correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault. He underlined a perspective that seems vitally …

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The Power of Committing

From Becky Margiotta of Billions Institute.…

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Owning Our Racism and Conscious Activism

A personal response and call to conscious activism from our friends at The Conscious Leadership Group. 

As we learned from our mentors, Gay and Katie, we practice and teach that our results—not our words or intentions or even our actions—demonstrate

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What’s True About This?

Big Leap coaches Dhira Dale Brown and Elaine Eddinger demonstrate the exercise What’s True About This?  It’s a simple practice you can do with a partner or alone, and it’s designed for you to discover what’s true for you by …

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How Do You Know What’s True?

Katie and Gay created a short, powerful activity a couple of decades ago to explore this question. Who knew that 30 years later it would be a center pole of our current national dilemma. Many people have found the practice …

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Moving from Fear to Presence, Connection, and Collaboration

“The enemy is fear. We think that it’s hate, but it’s fear.”
Mahatma Gandhi

This recent blog by Katie Hendricks appears in Mindful Leader. It focuses on fear and the transformative impact of shifting from fear to flow.
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Presence. Connect. Play. 5 Minute Try-It from Somatic Finance


Waking up and staying awake may not be easy. But this simple practice—Presence. Connect. Play.—is the best invitation I know to build an awake muscle. Developed and mastered by Kathlyn Hendricks, Ph.D., I offer a taste of the practice in

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New Year 2017 Blog Post from Katie

Thank you all for your presence and connection in this new year. Even though I may not post about these principles every day, I wanted you to know the organizing principles I plan to use to structure actions and choices …

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Saying yes to life!

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How is this familiar?

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