Keith Howard

Month: October 2010

  • A transformational thought

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    This week I will be in Toronto, Ottawa and Calgary. When I picked up the Globe and Mail in Calgary this morning I was delighted to find the following quote that echoes part of what Emerging Spirit has been lifting up. Family life and the workplace are changing at an unprecedented pace, both in ways that…

  • Secondary Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

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    I spent much of the past week at the BC Conference leaders’ event, Sowing Promise, Growing Leaders. The event was very good with a combination of inspiration and encouragement, mediated by Peter Short, teamed with windows for people to begin pursuit of individual areas of reflection and action. One of the most useful times for…

  • The United Church and General Motors

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        In a couple of weeks I am to begin a series of presentations named “Stepping Further Out” (Ottawa – Oct 27; Calgary – Oct 30; Vancouver – Nov 6). As a way of summarizing the past I am flirting with these paragraphs. I wonder though whether it is too harsh, not tough enough…

  • Weak and Safe Stories

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    The power of stories to shape our lives is known but seldom attended to until we are off the rails and wonder how we got that way. Who wrote the story that we live? Sometimes I wonder just how complicated are those basic narratives or whether the plot lines actually sprout from dead simple mottos…

  • Thanks a Lot, eh.

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    One of the things about the practice of gratitude is that it forces us to consider the world might be larger than what we can control. For giving thanks implies that we might actually be receiving something from some … one, thing, being, …. situation. And that perhaps what we receive is more than what…