Surrender & Trust

This month’s theme at COR is Surrender & Trust. We might do well to reorder that to Trust and Surrender. Trust is the prerequisite for surrender. It seems to me we all have an instinct for Surrender, that giving over to something bigger than ourselves. On some...

Truth and Honesty

I’ve spent many years now in personal growth work – attending workshops, leading workshops, striving to become the best version of myself and assisting others to do the same. Two necessary elements of the journey that I keep getting invited to embrace are truth...

Presence & Mindfulness

This month at COR we are focusing on the importance of Presence and Mindfulness. These two tools are simple and yet profoundly important. We often find ourselves worried, problem-solving (a.k.a playing ineffective “mental gymnastics”), spinning in regret and fear. And...

The Importance and Power of Reflection

This past weekend we completed our final workshop of the year, the last module of the 2017 Leadership Development Training (LDT). Each year the LDT class focuses on the theme of New Beginnings. It was amazing! As their final project together, our trainees presented...