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Archive for February 19, 2025
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| Dear Friends,
Recently, a child’s simple remark stopped us in our tracks. “My teacher didn’t show up today,” Daniel’s son said. “Really?” “Well, his body was present, but his mind was absent.” His words mirror our world today — one shaped by transactions and extractive systems that amplify absence. They leave us hollow, barely skimming the surface of life, with our eight-second attention span fractured between pings and pixels. But what if we choose to lead with presence? What if presence became relationship, relationship became regeneration, and regeneration became a rising tide — a collective emergence that nurtures the whole? |
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 Last month in India, we sat together in deep inquiry — leaders, thinkers, and seekers from across the world — exploring what it means to design for such gifts of emergence. And starting March 2nd, we’re hosting a 21-day virtual Pod to build on that dialogue with change-makers from 30+ countries: Join Laddership Pod |
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The retreat surfaced powerful questions that will also shape our Pod. A renowned author asked, “Why does a circle of five souls here feel deeper than a stage of 15 million?” sparking a conversation on broadcast vs. deepcast. A Howard Thurman scholar spoke of shifting from organizations to organisms — what nutrients allow them to thrive?  A corporate chairman with 300K+ employees, eyes wet with revelation, said, “I’ve had it all wrong. Instead of asking what to grow, we must ask — what grows here?” An entrepreneur paused before a quote: “He who keeps more than he needs is a thief.” Where does accumulation end, and circulation begin? And as AI reshapes our world, Gandhi’s dictum came to mind: Will it be powered by multiplications of wants or fulfillment of needs? What architectures of presence will regenerate our life force? |
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| In a time of peak polarization, we need a new way of being together — one that untangles us from competing narratives. Instead of meeting with our absence, what if my presence met yours, and we learned to cultivate the emergence of that sacred connection?
To hold such questions together with a global group next month: Join Laddership Pod
In one of those luminous moments at the retreat, 300 of us stood under the open sky, stories and songs still humming in our bones. Then, like murmuring starlings, we moved |
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The best use of imagination is creativity. The worst use of imagination is anxiety.
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Three Ways to Manage Dread
Beth Kurland was on a flight when the pilot instructed people to fasten their seatbelts due to severe weather ahead. Beth describes how she was anxious for the rest of the flight imagining the worst. “There was no actual turbulence, just anticipation that created my suffering.” It turned out to be a smooth, uneventful flight. As she analyzed her dread, she developed three suggestions for being mindful when dealing with anxiety. Notice: “In what way is my mind creating a story about something that is not actually happening right now, or only happening in my mind?” Be with: Being with “what is” takes “the resistance and emotional struggle out of fighting something we can’t change.” Conjuring difficulty: What is actually present? “There is anxiety in my body—yes. And then there is the narrative my mind is constructing.” Following these suggestions “can often bring some ease to even the most challenging moments.” { read more }
Be The Change
The next time you are anxious, breathe into mindfulness. Notice the narrative in your mind. Be with what you cannot control. What is your mind constructing? Breathe. |
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Sangha of Auspicious Companions 