Healing-Centered Leadership Blog

I've been reading Carl Rogers' book On Becoming a Person. This morning, it was the first chilly morning of the season, so I got cozy on my couch with the book, my dogs, and my tea. I landed on the chapter titled "To Be That Self Which One Truly Is," and I found myself drawn to a particular passage that I will share here: "It seems to mean that the individual moves toward being, knowingly and acceptingly, the process which they* inwardly and actually are. They move away from b

There's a moment at Grand Prismatic Spring that some people miss because they're focused on getting to the spring itself. The spring gets all the attention. It's the largest hot spring in the United States, third largest in the world, and it earns the crowds: a 370-foot-wide eye of water shifting from sapphire at the center to green, yellow, orange, and rust at the edges. The beautiful bright blue you can see in the middle isn't because of the minerals; it's the result of the

It's 5:00 AM. I'm standing in the Ithaca airport with my kids, sleepy eyes, boarding passes in hand, and ready for the first leg of a three-flight journey to Montana. I had a plan. I'd built in buffer time. I knew our gates, our layovers, our seats. And then the text came: the middle leg of our trip, the second of three flights, was cancelled. The text came as we were boarding our first flight, so we didn't have much time to process or think through our options. That was the

Photo taken in Rouen, France If you clicked on this post, some part of you is already asking a leadership question. Maybe you're leading a team through change. Maybe you're navigating the very real weight of an executive role. Maybe you're leading yourself through a hard transition, or you've been called a leader by other people for years and have never quite believed it. Wherever you're starting from, this post is for you — because I think about leadership broadly and inclus

If you know me, you know that the Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music & Dance is often my favorite four days of the year. It is a space filled with art, rhythm, community, and an undeniable energy that feels like a collective exhale. The festival has something for everyone. There are babies dancing alongside teenagers, alongside people in their 80's. There are people who never go to sleep and there are others who wake up rested, bright and early to do yoga with the sunr

Embodied Leadership Walk into most leadership development programs and you'll find the same toolkit: playbooks for change management, models for strategic thinking, exercises in giving feedback. All valuable. All aimed squarely at the neck up. But talk to any leader who has sat through a board meeting with a knotted stomach, or snapped at their team after a sleepless night, or felt their chest tighten right before delivering hard news, and you'll be reminded that leadership d

Dr. Laura Colket We are taught early on that serious work requires a serious demeanor. We grow up to believe that if we aren’t grinding through a to-do list, we aren't being productive. But if you want your team to truly innovate—to solve complex problems in an increasingly volatile world—you have to give them permission to be curious, to lean into their creative side, and, quite simply, to play. Play isn’t the opposite of work; it is the engine of innovation. As human beings