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“Greater awareness,” like “happiness,” may be the current holy grail of businesspeople and spiritual practitioners alike. What do these abstract concepts look like in the day-to-day? How do we “get” greater awareness and happiness? It’s human to take awareness and happiness for granted when things are going well. So what do we do when we mess up, and those crucial elements ar Read more

There are three substances we could argue to be the most indispensible and immeasurable commodities on the planet, and they also happen to be free: love, sunlight and air. I’d add a fourth, less obvious one: enlightened consciousness, which could be considered a highly developed form of love. Like sunlight and air, enlightened consciousness affects everything we do and how we do it, such as in the form of the role mo Read more

It’s a billion-dollar question: how can we bring greater awareness to our work and lives? Greater awareness is associated with more satisfaction, improved health, increased empathy and greater satisfaction. And what does “healthy” mean, exactly? Can we be empathic and caring without making others (or ourselves) fidget uncomfortably because it’s too woo-woo? After all, “love” is a f Read more

  Imagine five days of this: explorations into the democratization of capital; opensourcing redressing fossil fuel extraction on indigenous lands; delicious and healthy meals; engineering how to scale a social business; a sing-along with a major financial cooperative rep about how joining together makes us happier; the joys of flow charts; plus rainforest and an exquisite beach. I’ve attended the annual Social V Read more