Project lead for the Therapeutic Touch Network of Ontario’s inaugural CARE 150, Therapeutic Touch Awareness Week, May 1 – 7, 2017, Kaizen Leadership Institute’s founder, Julia von Flotow, is walking her talk when it comes to healers being leaders. Julia believes in “leading the change you want to see in the world”…. change that can make a … [Read more...]
Is Yours A Spiritual Hunger?
April 7, 2017 by
What do you really hunger for? It’s spiritual hunger I’m speaking of - a hunger for wholeness, balance and a sense of connectedness. When you've satisfied your spiritual hunger, you make do with a lot less of everything else, no longer needing or wanting to clutter up your life. How often, in your work-a-day life, do you live on automatic pilot, … [Read more...]
Crafting Career Success in the 21st Century
March 31, 2017 by
The increasing rate of change globally and technologically is calling for a personal redefinition of career success. Over the last twenty to thirty years, it has become increasingly common for people to switch jobs, change roles within an organization and even careers every 2.5 to 3 years or even less. The Baby Boomers, a huge demographic, now just … [Read more...]
How can Sustainable Success be Possible?
March 12, 2017 by
There’s no time like right now to stop and assess your strengths, opportunities, and threats and make some healthy choices that will empower you and transform your life. I call it developing personal leadership and cultivating resilience. While this, in my view, is a life way, a mindful lifestyle practice that can lead to personal fulfillment … [Read more...]
Helping Those Grieving a Loss
February 28, 2017 by
Understanding grief as the experience of loss is an important step in healing. Understanding healing as a process of moving into right relationship, towards wholeness, balance and harmony allows us to reframe the experience of loss and slow, perhaps even arrest the continual loss of energy, so common in the experience. Often, when a friend or … [Read more...]
How to Heal Yourself and Help Others When a Loved One Dies
February 24, 2017 by
When someone you love is dying…. This can be time of great sorrow and anguish or a time filled with peace, harmony and good will. Dying is both simple and complex – a process that often engages not only the one who is dying, but members of their family, caregivers, healthcare and hospice support team. It takes energy to die…to let go and … [Read more...]
How to Face Suffering with Compassionate Intent
February 17, 2017 by
Therapeutic Touch® is widely recognized as a gift that eases pain and suffering, so common at end of life. To understand and appreciate Therapeutic Touch as a helpful means of easing the experience of those dying, it is important perhaps to reflect on the end of life experience from the perspective of the dying; the context and the dynamic of … [Read more...]
Are you a Sucker for the Irrelevant?
January 30, 2017 by
Managing attention is the toughest challenge we face in our lives. Sucked up into the whirlwind demands of everyday living, like a rat on a treadmill, we give all we’ve got to keep the little treadmill going that keeps us humming and spinning ever faster….but whatever for? It’s the patterns of thought and behaviour that keep us stuck, in a rut, … [Read more...]
Anatomy of a Habit and How to Over-ride Old, Counter-Productive Conditioning
January 17, 2017 by
Engrams are what neurophysiologists call learned behaviour, neural patterns put to memory. They are coded step by step instructions for each habitual movement. The first time we do anything, whether learning to dance, swim, drive or walk, we have no engrams to rely on, so our movement is erratic and sloppy. With repeated practice, the engrams, for … [Read more...]
An Invitation to Open to the Magic of the Holiday Season
December 20, 2016 by
Give yourself a break from the hustle and bustle of your life to open to the magic of the season. You owe it to yourself. Simply pause, tune inwards and take a few deep breaths to quiet your mind. Now, listen to your heart. Trust that it will guide you – move you to attend to that which wants your attention. Stay present to your heart and give … [Read more...]
