[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Leadership Design Group exists” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] In part, to help organizational teams, both board and staff, profit or non-profit, to be fully alive in all their purposes for why they even exist. If you knew my own personal story across the 75 years of my life you would hear how, especially, […]
[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Imagine my surprise…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …when, beginning grad school in 1973 here in Denver, Colorado, I learned that one of my main intentional mentors at the time also had mentors. That impressed me. As Leadership Design Group’s whole-person mentoring model began to be formed during those three important years, it was
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Gettysburg…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …The name and place evokes such powerful emotions in Americans. A good friend of mine develops current leaders by exploring examples of past leaders—great, good and otherwise—at the Battle of Gettysburg. (See his program, “If Properly Led” here.) What becomes clear from the study of any good leader
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Growing older does not mean one stops growing…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …in all the dimensions of their life. There is a “sad myth” hanging around those in their Third3rd of life that you grow older, you accomplish a few good moments in your life, your kids, should you have them, are boosted
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Need a Marriage Tuneup?” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] In my work as a psychotherapist and leadership mentor I am continually encouraging individuals and couples to live fully and congruently from their Core in all 8 Dimensions in order to realize the full capacity of their uniquely designed lives. Individually the benefits of Whole
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”My wife and I are nearing the 50th anniversary of our marriage.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] We’ve chosen, as often as reasonable, to drive to a special place near where we live to watch the sunset behind the Rockies. We have a full view, from Pikes Peak above Colorado Springs to the south,
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”‘I need a mentor.’” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Anyone associated with young people has probably heard those words before, particularly in a business or organizational context or in working with disadvantaged youth. Mentoring is a powerful tool for helping young people develop. But from a 65 or 70 year-old? Wouldn’t that seem a
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”‘I know you’re not the man who birthed me…’” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] “…But I need a man I trust to give me some fathering, as my father was absent from my life. And now, I’m also a father, who needs some guidance. Will you be that with me, for me?” Those who
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”‘See that older man over there in the corner?’” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] “He’s going to ask if I can mentor him. I can see it in his eyes.” Several years back, when presenting a mentoring workshop, that is what I said to a good friend who had gone with me to a
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”It’s late summer…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] … in 2016 and I am on a brief, quick journey through parts of Oregon and Washington. The past 100 hours have given welcome glimpses of just how LDG’s Whole-Person Mentoring Model has impacted lives across the decades. Meaning-filled conversations have easily evolved with women and
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Some unknown boogyman in the dark…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …Most kids you and I know (maybe even ourselves, that’s you and me, way back when…) have been spooked by that apparition. Those munchkins can be totally certain that they heard or saw something. To talk them out of that “certainty” is almost
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Core: noun, often attributive: ˈkȯr” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] At Leadership Design Group, we journey often into a person’s core—and, if we are healthy, into what is at our core. It is, after all, at the center of our Circle of Life Model. Let’s go there again for a few moments this morning
[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Several months ago I held a beautiful baby boy.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] He was just weeks old. Uniquely, when his 30 year-old mother was his age, I also had the privilege of holding her within her first year of life. Her 63 year-old father is a stellar business leader whom I’ve mentored
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”…and back to wholehearted living, no matter one’s age…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Younger friends tease and laugh at my quoting, some times, from the AARP publication that is meant for we “olders.” With warmth and care, I remind them that they will be “old” before they know it, as well. Time sneaks
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Way back in the last century…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …when we were kids growing up on farms in Arizona (Judy…currently 72) and Oregon (Wes…now 74) it was the custom to have parties to celebrate couples, friends of our parents, who had been married 40, 50, 60 years. Being the last-born in our
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”The ink was not even dry…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …on the clerk and recorder documents, the BOLD CAPS emblazoned “Letters of Testamentary”. Ralph C. Wilson (not his real name) ascended into heaven right on schedule, according to the Father’s calendar not ours. He left behind a pile of property to distribute. It
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”I am 54 years old…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …husband to Kim, father to Chelsea and son-in-law James, and Grandpa-to-be for baby Evelynn. The answer to this question on success has radically changed over the past several years. As has the meaning of fully living my unique life in all 8 Dimensions, as
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”The start, and heart, of our Middle Third.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Realization… …this word is a noun, with a simple definition from Merriam-Webster: the state of understanding or becoming aware of something: the act of achieving something that has been planned or hoped for. Realization characterizes the start of our Second3rd of
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Think of a ‘Doctor of the Core’…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] During a recent Leadership Design Group Workshop, they gave me an assignment: “If I visited a ‘Doctor of the Core’ for a ‘core check-up’ What would I tell the doctor about the health of my core – Its values, integrity, and character?
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Good friends for decades.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] The morning this is being written we, my wife and I, are in the home of these “good friends for decades” kind of friends: for over three decades now (but not the family in the picture above). This couple, now in their 60’s, live close
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