About Me
I'm joining Service Space because ... I am incredibly grateful and excited to have the opportunity to serve with inspirational souls.
A good day to me is when ... I laugh out loud joyfully with another person
My hero in life is ...My son
My favorite book is ...Love Poems from God
One thing I'm grateful for is ... A sense of humour
A Small Detail, 20 Years Ago
May 18, 2020, 3 comments, 11 smiles
It has been such a privilege to learn from the many stories and insights that surface in our Laddership Circles each week.
A profound image that a member of our circle shared yesterday:
I was the receiver of a micro moment of kindness with major ripples in my early twenties…
I was at a point in my life when I was extremely low and, while I don’t think I would have acted on it, thoughts of ending my life had started to creep in. It was a dark time and I didn’t see a way out of the darkness. I was working in the front office of a government office and barely holding it together.
My boss came back from her lunch break and brought me a cookie with a big smile. It touched my heart on a day when any shred of kindness or love meant I was able to get through that day.
I do not even remember if I ate the cookie, that wasn’t the point. It was like someone lit a candle in a super dark room and it was enough light that now 20 years later I still remember it so clearly.
It made me reflect that we never, ever know what impact an act of kindness will have. The small details seems to be so vital to aliveness in every sense.
Glimpse Into Laddership Journeys :)
Mar 11, 2020, 3 smiles
Has been a joy to be a witness to the intentions and journeys behind various applications for an upcoming Laddership Circle!
An excerpt:
Radical generosity feels like an act of kindness so out of the ordinary that you can hardly breathe and you lose your words when you see it or experience it. I feel like it comes from a place either deep within where we are all connected at the Soul level. [...]
My husband and I, along with our 3 kiddos, started practicing what I would call more intentional generosity a few years ago around the holidays. The goal was/is to turn Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving marked with hectic consumerism) into RAK Friday, encouraging friends and family to participate in radical acts of kindness and soulful generosity all day. It has turned into our favorite day of the year.
The most inspiring part of this day is when you ... Read Full Story
Overheard In Our Laddership Circle
Jul 26, 2019, 1 comments, 16 smiles
Overheard in our Laddership Circle that started this week ...
"The intentions with which people come to a Laddership circle always amazes and humbles me. Just in our first week, I felt so honored to see the organizing principles that drew each person to the circle and how genuinely people shared deeply personal stories. A young man from France wrote about not seeing his dad after the age of 12. A couple from Austria rawly reflected on facing uncertainty after letting go of a a 2-year labor-of-love. A Chinese entrepreneur spoke about how severe depression became her turning point. In the era of sensational news, soundbytes and shallow interactions, I'm moved by the power of the ancient "technology" of a circle -- and how people are showing up with such raw sincerity."
Laddership News: Small Is Beautiful
Jul 08, 2019, 5 smiles
This month's 'Laddership Newsletter' was just posted online. As we enter the seventh month of 2019, we take this moment to pause and reflect on the beauty of small. David Bullón Patton brings us the power of noticing the small things, and Meghna Banker brings us the power of doing the small things.
Laddership News: Laddership News: Fearless Compassion
May 20, 2019, 6 smiles
This month's 'Laddership Newsletter' was just posted online. Reading Poonam's description of the recent evening with Arun Dada, I was struck by the connection between fearlessness and compassion. I had not seen it so clearly before, they are the masculine and the feminine principles of active love. To be compassionate we must be fearless, fearlessness allows for compassion to act. This month we hear about those two virtues from Poonam's story and from Tim Harrison's work on compassion.
Laddership News: Laddership News: Global Circles
Apr 21, 2019, 3 smiles
This month's 'Laddership Newsletter' was just posted online. This month we have stories from different parts of the world: Vietnam and Spain. Both describe so eloquently of the transformative power of circles, binding hearts, minds and hands in gentle ripples across borders, whether internal or physical.
Laddership News: Laddership News: Quiet Power Of
Mar 17, 2019, 4 smiles
This month's 'Laddership Newsletter' was just posted online. Spring arrives quietly, without fanfare, and yet it is dramatically transformational of the winter landscape - external and internal. This month's stories remind us of the similar quiet power of helpfulness: it's such an ordinary word, hiding unimaginable power in it.
Laddership News: Laddership News: Grace And Preparation
Jan 27, 2019, 7 smiles
This month's 'Laddership Newsletter' was just posted online. It is said that a blessing occurs when grace meets preparation and this month's stories weave that truth beautifully. We have an eloquent study in sincere preparation from Jignasha and an account of grace as a tangible thing, a 'collage of living answers' from Audrey.
Highlights From Compassion In Education Call!
Jan 17, 2019, 2 comments, 13 smiles
What a privilege to have had the opportunity to be on the current Education Laddership Circle's breakout call on Sunday with compassion educator and researcher, Timothy Harrison, talking about the science of compassion.
That sentence can seem like an oxymoron at first hearing, but Tim was able to explain with great warmth and heart, why those two words must accompany each other as we evolve through these interesting times we live in.
The conversation opened with a quick share from the participants on what compassion means in their world, so many reflections: moments in wholeness, a mother’s love, the future...all sorts of perspectives. These reminded Tim of a story from the Buddha, when asked why compassion was important when there are so many other qualities to cultivate. The Buddha replied that in the same way that an elephant’s footprint is so large, that it can contain the footprints of every other animal, ... Read Full Story
Laddership News: Laddership News: Peace And Goodwill
Dec 16, 2018, 1 smiles
This month's 'Laddership Newsletter' was just posted online. Peace and goodwill are words that appear very often at this time of year, and really they are states of consciousness rather than of being. This month's stories point to what creates those states - the small acts of kindness, generosity, compassion and love that foster the relationships that lead to a consciousness of peace and goodwill to all.
