Sacred Work
Start With a Seed
It’s been a year since I did my first interview with Ilene Kouzel, a friend dying of ALS, on the topics of Conscious Living and Conscious Leaving. Almost to the day. Ilene died last October. Nick, Ilene’s husband, had recently asked me for the audio file of our "lost interview," one of the later interviews…
Read MoreIlene Kouzel Scholarship
The Ilene Kouzel Scholarship for Diversity in Leadership has just been established in honor of my friend, who died of ALS last October. The scholarship is intended to help fund participants of the Coaches Training Institute Co-Active Leadership program. More details are on the Conscious Living, Conscious Leaving blog. While I have not gone through…
Read More2nd Program of Conscious Living, Conscious Leaving
Many of you who have followed this blog for awhile have seen my postings about the interviews I did with my friend, Ilene Kouzel, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2004. Ilene died last October, just weeks after releasing the first interview as part of the podcast, Conscious Living, Conscious Leaving. The team putting the…
Read MoreQuestion #11
This is the last Q+A that Ilene sent me, less than two weeks before she died. Typically, she would wait for me to email her a question and then she would email her reply. She found it easier to answer a question that I posed, rather than write spontaneously. The last couple of questions in…
Read MoreSafe Journey, Ilene
Ilene died on Monday, October 9, at 3:15pm MT, at her home in Bailey, Colorado. I like to think that at that moment, her soul was set free, from a body that no longer could serve her wild and loving spirit. I imagine that right now, she is giddy, dancing, and being the coyote-trickster…
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