Episode 4: Collecting Difficult Moments in Relationship, with James Benard

02/05/19 • 18 min

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Practice You with Elena Brower

On the intelligence of risk, radical independence, and decoding the real conversation that happens in relationship.

On the intelligence of risk, radical independence, and decoding the real conversation that happens in relationship.

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Episode 3: It’s All a Teaching, with Elena

Seeing difficult moments as evidence that it was always coming together.

Length: 5:00 Timecodes: 2:00 Seeing that every difficult moment is a teaching. A Call For Revolution by His Holiness the Dalai Lama Seek evidence that it was always coming together Hold a state of peace within our hearts “...respond to terror with increased democracy, openness and tolerance”

4:15 May we be more gentle with our fear May we apply the tolerance, non-violence within our own homes May we look upon those closest to us (with whom we might be challenged) and continue to believe that there is a teaching in this challenge.

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Episode 5: Remembering Mary Oliver

In this episode, on the occasion of Mary Oliver's passing, I took time to read my favourite passages and poems. Her work has informed mine since 1998, and reading her words brings me back to the earliest days in my teaching and learning to lead.

Readings from:

Thirst A Thousand Mornings Felicity Devotions A Poetry Handbook