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The Sacred Hoop by Paula Gunn Allen*
“At base, every story, every song, every ceremony tells the Indian that each creature is a part of a living whole and that all parts of that whole are related…
Babies Are Not Machines
How do we grow a healthy organism? We provide the kind of environment that helps the entity thrive. Whether a Ficus house plant, a Doberman puppy,…
Jamie Grumet Featured In TIME’s Century of Impact
What a Difference a Decade Makes:
TIME features iconic cover of Jamie Grumet breastfeeding her son on their centennial celebration issue, A Century of Impact,…
Ten Not Soft Skillsets of Emotional Intelligence
In the 25-plus years since the book Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman was published, people still misunderstand the concept. I see this frequently…
Forget Upstream Activism: We Are The Stream
“Our worldview is like the foundation of a house: if it’s faulty, everything might collapse“
– Jeremy Lent, The Web of Meaning
It was best that, as a…
Powerful Parenting Magic
Pam Leo talks about her beloved book Connection Parenting and what she's learned since writing it 17 years ago.
The Web of Meaning: The Introduction to the Book by Jeremy Lent
As our civilization careens toward a precipice of climate breakdown, ecological destruction, and gaping inequality, people are losing their existential…
How to Take Back Power When You’ve Lost It
“Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love,” said Dr.…
How A Weight Loss Clinic “Mistake” And A Shipboard Explosion…
What if I told you you’re probably reading this post in this blog because of a mistake in a weight loss clinic in 1985, and a horrific shipboard explosion in…
Comparing the Kinship (Indigenous Worldview) To Wong’s Dual-Systems…
"The idea that self-actualization is a long term process that few ever meet stands in contrast to an Indigenous worldview that sees…