Toward a Life of Balance

As the year comes to an end, we reflect on what went right or wrong and how to course correct for the future. We are desperate to find a "new normal" and a life of balance. But we cannot create a new normal that brings the past forward, unchallenged and unchanged. The coronavirus, the economy, civic unrest, social inequities, and all the rest of it will still be there, waiting for us on the other side of midnight. Then what? As we approach 2021, how can we meet it with eyes wide open, a heart full of courage, and our hands outstretched to offer our best to everything and everyone that comes our way?

Courage, Self-Awareness, EmpathyLORI EBERLYDecember 16, 2020year-end reflection, change management, self awareness, growth

The Gift of Duality: Welcome It All

This is your reminder that either/or thinking is a trait of white supremacy culture. I promise, we’re more complicated than that. You are capable of both/and thinking. We are not binary. We are complex, multifaceted, multidimensional beings. Learning to accept the fullness of our experience is an act of radical self-care.

Self-Awareness, Curiosity, Creativity, integrityLORI EBERLYNovember 9, 2020self-awareness, duality, nonduality, acceptance

Find Your Fuckery in the Mirror

Mirrors are crucial tools to increase self-awareness, which requires tedious and demanding mental work. For the leader, self-awareness is an ongoing understanding of our communication patterns and how we enhance and damage trust. Without this knowledge, we cannot reduce our own fuckery.

The Fuckery Book, Self-Awareness, DiscoveryLORI EBERLYOctober 7, 2020Mirroring, Communication, self-knowledge

In Search of Justice: Living the Questions

Our world is calling for help. Do you hear? She is summoning all healers, artists, and truth tellers. Our communities—fatigued and burdened with struggling to create long overdue change socially and environmentally—desperately need social justice advocates and community organizers, risk takers and peace makers. Will the equity experts, mediators, and transformers of conflict, please stand up? Those of you with a history of making good trouble, please welcome the newcomers. Make room for the optimists and the cynics. All are welcome. All are needed.

Leadership, Self-Awareness, Mediation, CommitmentLORI EBERLYSeptember 17, 2020MEDIATION, communication, CHANGE MANAGEMENT

Leadership Communication: Stop Mincing Words

Trying to be “nice” and using euphemisms to remain comfortable, rather than communicating directly is a form of fucker. Honesty can feel uncomfortable—both to receive and to give. But being willing to be vulnerable—to become uncomfortable with discomfort—is part and parcel of effective communication and leads to greater understanding and connection.

Leadership Bedrock: Know Yourself

The only way I know how to show up authentically is to be vulnerable. So, I started this video series talking about how I am racist. I’m presenting it as a tool for other white people who think of themselves as liberal, progressive, and well-intentioned in order to highlight that racism isn’t something we can just say we’re aware of and leave it at that. We have to recognize how intoxicating it is to experience white privilege and that intoxication— much like a drug or alcohol—is addictive and we don’t want to admit we have a problem.

Leadership, Self-Awareness, IdentityLORI EBERLYJuly 30, 2020boundaries, expectations, showing up, authenticity

Redefining Self-Care

Self-care is often understood primarily as external activities you do to take care of yourself. External activities can be helpful but the internal aspect of self-care is where we move from self-soothing to self-empowerment. It’s a big red flag when self-care enthusiasts try to tell you how to take care of yourself. No one can tell us what we need. The answers lie within.

Notes from Outside the Comfort Zone

Everyone—regardless of their title or expertise—has a “zone of genius”, that place where either 10,000 hours of experience or innate talent or a little of both come together masterfully. Put another way, mastery is your zone of genius. It’s your A-game, your superpower—that thing you do like nobody else. And nothing shuts it down—not even a pandemic.

Your Fuckery Map: A Blueprint to Trust

No one goes through life without stumbling over their own fuckery. The RADIUS ECD method helps you transform your personal Fuckery—whatever it might be—through self-inquiry and structured exercises. In this article, we introduce the Fuckery Deck, our foundational approach to mapping behavioral change.

Leading Through Crisis

We’re hard wired to fight, flee or freeze; this is our nature and these reflexes serve us well. But for the collective to thrive and emerge from crisis intact, strong leadership is needed. That leadership emerges when we recognize our habitual reactions, pause for reflection and counsel, and respond with clear purpose.

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