Posts by Carol Ross
Helpers on Our Journey
In my work with A Bigger Voice, I’m using the Hero’s Journey to understand the elements of a client’s story. When interviewing a client, one of the questions that comes up is this: "Who were the helpers?" It has increased my awareness of people who have helped me during my journey. They range from a…
Read MoreThe End of the School Year or How I’d Rather Have a Root Canal Than Endure Another May
We’re in the home stretch. The awards ceremonies, choir and band concerts, and field days have come and gone. The seniors have graduated and finals are half over. Textbooks have been turned in and yearbooks have been passed out. Math club and chess club have met for the last time. What’s left are a couple…
Read MoreAnatomy of a Boundary Crosser
In a written interview with boundary crosser, Karl Iagnemma, I found some great quotes that speak directly to what it’s like to operate in multiple worlds. Iagnemma is a robotics researcher at MIT as well as an award-winning fiction writer. One of the gifts of boundary crossers is being able to see patterns across disciplines.…
Read MoreThe Scarcity of Hybrids
I previously posted about the power of hybrids–how "both/and" thinking takes the conversation to a new place and how vibrant communities, where a many viewpoints are put forth, are ideally suited to take create hybrids. Jeremiah Owyang has a great posting about how it’s difficult to find hybrids that fill a real need in the…
Read MoreCrossing Between Cultures and Races
A friend points me to this article about a woman who grew up in both American Indian and white worlds. Lots of wisdom that seems to be ripe for cross pollinating between the two worlds. I have said very little about boundary crossing between ethnic cultures. This is a bit odd, as that’s part of…
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