My Message,
Vision, Purpose, and Mission
My Worldview/Headspace
My Essence or 'Brand'
My Values, Passions and
Needs
My Teachers
My Strengths and Struggles
My Signature Projects
Rodin - The Thinker
Rodin - The Kiss
Waterfalls Switzerland
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I Value:
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Discovering - I am
incorrigibly curious (see My Essence) and am constantly
drawn to wonder about and understand the 'elegant simplicity' that
is generally at the core of an idea or concept.
I also love to take what appear to be disparate parts and
create a synthesis or 'whole' - and I especially love it when this
synthesis 'appears' in the form of a simple, 'elegant' visual model!
(see Models)
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Communicating - delicious
ideas and wonderful experiences are gifts to be shared. I am drawn
to connect and communicate with with clarity to and with others to
inform, invite and inspire. (see My Writing, and
Models)
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Relating - although created as unique individuals, I believe we are
created to exist in relationship with the Divine, and with each
other. I am drawn to
establish and maintain relationships in which there is deep
connection, a mutually clear understanding of and commitment to the
kind of relationship we want to create, agreements are honoured, and
each individual assumes responsibility for issues that arise.
In these relationships, there is freedom to feel our
feelings, to speak our truth, and to enjoy creative synergy in the
expression of who we are. (see Worldview/Headspace)
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I am Passionate About:
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learning and growing -
discovering and uncovering delicious new ideas
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articulating clearly what I mean - finding just the
'right' word! ... and understanding clearly what others are trying
to communicate
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discovering and appreciating the best in people and
experiences
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gentle softness - both the 'feel'/texture of things,
and touch, and generally as a way of being
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intensity of experience or sensation - gentleness doesn't mean 'fuzziness'!
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the freedom to be me - space to be quiet so I know who I am, and space to
live 'out loud'
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chocolate! |
I Need:
After many years of living without being
conscious that I HAD needs (never mind meeting or having them met!), it
was both scary, and an enormous relief, to begin to wonder about and
articulate them. I have
discovered I need:
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the freedom and space to be uniquely me,
and to openly speak my truth - it's when I don't recognize and
honour this need in myself that I develop the need to control
others.
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to be heard and appreciated for who I
am, and respected and valued for what I have to offer - and of
course that starts with knowing and loving myself.
To the extent that I give myself that gift, I don't 'require'
the approval of others.
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my
Myers-Briggs type is INTP (introverted, intuitive, thinking,
perceiving). I am learning that one of the very real needs I have (as
basic as the need for food and water) is the need to create time and
space in my life to be and breathe, to reflect and wonder.
Without I find that I become 'beside myself', and (as those
who know me well can attest) no fun to live with! |
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