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From what inner space do you lead? (The Wednesday 1-2-3)
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Hey Reader, This past week, I dedicated some time to re-reading Parker Palmer’s Let Your Life Speak. It was a book that had a large impact on me back in my college years and I wanted to revisit some of my underlinings and notes. About halfway through, smashed in between my scribbles and my collages of blue and yellow highlighter, was a completely un-marked paragraph. And it struck me in a way it clearly hadn’t before: We have places of fear inside of us, but we have other places as well — places with names like trust and hope and faith. We can choose to lead from one of those places, to stand on ground that is not riddled with the fault lines of fear, to move toward others from a place of promise instead of anxiety. As we stand in one of those places, fear may remain close at hand and our spirits may still tremble. But now we stand on ground that will support us, ground from which we can lead others toward a more trustworthy, more hopeful, more faithful way of being in the world. In the midst of our current moment, I wonder how this lands for you. Spend some time with the questions below and, if you have any reflection or thoughts you’d like to share, I’d love to hear them. ❓ Questions
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👉 "Moving toward others from a place of promise instead of anxiety..."After watching last week’s presidential debate and noticing how much anxiety I was holding in my body, I’m even more thankful for next month’s Inner Work Cohort. I really do think now is the time, in the midst of what feels like a collective and tension-filled inhale, to engage practices that help us settle our central nervous systems, not in a way that pacifies us, but emboldens us: that helps us stay in the game and remain present. Here are some of the things our cohort alumni have shared about their experience in the cohort: If this resonates with what you’ve been thinking about and feeling in your body, I hope you’ll consider joining.
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The Wednesday 1-2-3
Inner work frameworks, practices, and questions – all in a five-minute read. Delivered to your inbox every Wednesday morning before you even wake up. Written and curated by Andrew Lang.
Hey Reader, This week, I’m passing along a practice from one of my colleagues, Taj M. Smith. Taj shared this in a recent newsletter and I love how he speaks about time. I often find myself going way too fast, so while practices like this can sometimes seem silly, they can also be really helpful in re-setting myself. If you feel yourself tempted to skim it, hit “archive,” and move on – especially if you’re reading this early in the morning – I invite you to try it literally right now with...
Hey Reader, A quick reminder to start us off 👇 Tomorrow night, Kimberly Novosel and I will be hosting our first “sweatshirt session!” If you’re feeling a bit exhausted by the world and want a few new practices for self-connection and staying soft, yet fierce, I hope you’ll consider joining us. Today's focus is on a concept used in family systems therapy known as the “transitional character.” This is someone who becomes a change-maker in their family lineage by refusing to pass down...
Hey Reader, I recently received an email from one of our Wednesday 1-2-3 readers sharing this super relatable challenge: “setting goals I can stay with over time.” Woof – me too! In my day job, I train teachers in a style of education known as project-based learning. And one of the things I talk most with teachers about is how we can emphasize “process over product” in our classrooms. (You can probably guess: I have a lot of critical things to say about standardized testing.) In other words,...