Posts by Carol Ross
The Mark of a Community-Builder
My friend, Shirley Anderson, host of the Coaching Salon, is one of the people I consider to be a great community builder. Shirley brings together coaches three times a month to learn about all things related to coaching–from building a coaching business to sticky situations with clients to honing coaching skills. Twenty or more coaches…
Read MoreI Owe My Sanity to Fairy Cards or How Taking a Vacation is Easier Than You Think
Lately, I’ve been feeling like there’s always one more thing on my list that needs to get done. Friday evening comes and I look forward to getting caught up on the weekend—the emails that I’ve neglected, the blog postings that have been ruminating since reading a newspaper article or having an insight while jogging or…
Read MoreBottom Up vs. Top Down
I finally got it the other day when someone said that A Bigger Voice is about creating change from the bottom up. It used to be that change could only come from the top down or required a massive organizational effort from the bottom up (Think Civil Rights movement in the U S.) With technology…
Read MoreImprov Wisdom
I’ve fallen in love with a gem of a book, Patricia Ryan Madson’s Improv Wisdom. Madson is a retired professor of drama at Stanford University, with lots of credits in the areas of improv and creativity. Less than 150 pages, the book is a quick read. It is organized by principles of improvisation that, when…
Read MoreWhat Would You Say At the End of Your Life?
Two years ago, I did a series of interviews with Ilene Kouzel, a friend dying of ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. The inteviews eventually were packaged into episodes for a podcast, Conscious Living, Conscious Leaving. Ilene loved to tell the story about adding one of her caretakers to her bank account, to make…
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