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Posts in category "transformation"

Persistent Challenges are our Greatest Gifts?

Persistent Challenges are our Greatest Gifts?
My client, Jillian, brilliantly represents and coaches her clients so that they find themselves in venues that best fit their talents. They feel seen in the best light by audiences, and they are thrilled with her work. Who would imagine that Jillian secretly yearns for the limelight, herself, and is, at the same time, deathly... Read more »
By Therese Rowley, Ph.D.,
May 7, 2012 at 1:39 pm
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Organizing the Future around Empathy

Organizing the Future around Empathy
As a consultant in a big six consulting firm in the 80′s, I was told to keep my emotions at home because management consultants don’t have emotions. 15 years later, the same firm hired me to teach their global, internal consultants leadership – including a component of emotional intelligence. Now we know that emotional intelligence... Read more »
By Therese Rowley, Ph.D.,
November 30, 2011 at 6:05 pm
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The Art of Losing Yourself

The Art of Losing Yourself
During personal change and transformation, it is appropriate to lose the self you have always known. Significant passages in your life are your soul’s prompting to remember more of your gifts, or show up as a more integrated self in the world. This requires mourning the loss of who you have always known yourself to... Read more »
By Therese Rowley, Ph.D.,
October 24, 2011 at 12:39 pm
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Conscious Capitalism

The Conscious Business Network is a place for colleagues to explore what is possible beyond even the best current ideas, and to connect to the next level of potential in relationship and work.  In We First, author Simon Mainwaring insists it is time for business to become the driver for transforming capitalism – by honoring purpose, values, mutual... Read more »
By Therese Rowley, Ph.D.,
May 4, 2011 at 10:15 am
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Bullying from First Grade on Up

Carrie Goldman has a ChicagoNow blog called Portrait of an Adoption. In a November blog she wrote about the bullying her daughter received from her fellow boy classmates in the first grade for bringing a Star Wars water bottle to school.  She has received national attention for drawing attention to this important issue. Goldman stated... Read more »
By Therese Rowley, Ph.D.,
December 9, 2010 at 8:59 pm
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Holiday Shopping: Share Your Favorite Inspiration

Vertigo is the immediate feeling I get as soon as I think about buying Christmas presents for the 43 people in my immediate family. This year, as I tried to wrap my head and heart around what might make each of them smile, happy or more inspired, I decided to focus on books – written... Read more »
By Therese Rowley, Ph.D.,
December 8, 2010 at 10:28 pm
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The Fictitious Epidemic of ADD and ADHD

“A three year old is not half a six year old.” said Sir Ken Robinson. We are flailing and failing to support children’s unique  gifts and talents. We are anesthetizing kids with ADD/ADHD drugs instead of waking them up so they can ably lead us toward a sustainable future. These ideas came from Sir Robinson’s... Read more »
By Therese Rowley, Ph.D.,
November 29, 2010 at 12:13 pm
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Airline Pat Downs and Feel Ups

The U.S. Government has decided that in order to catch terrorists who have violated our laws, taken lives, and who fly on airplanes, they now have the right to terrorize and violate the speech, space, and person of all citizens who fly. What we have here is a failure of creative solutions, a completely lack... Read more »
By Therese Rowley, Ph.D.,
November 18, 2010 at 12:53 am
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The Business of You: Meaningful Work

Many of my clients feel stifled and frozen in their high level corporate positions, afraid to leave the golden handcuffs that keep them bound to something that does not feed their soul. Finding meaning at work doesn’t just mean changing jobs, it means getting to know yourself differently. Clients and colleagues who have slowly morphed... Read more »
By Therese Rowley, Ph.D.,
October 22, 2010 at 9:35 am
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Miners: Underground to Space and Back to Ground

What are the chances that what we learn in and about Space, high above the planet we call “home”, could be helpful to a group of men trapped 2100 feet beneath the surface of where the rest of us live?  Apparently, when we explore the terrain that is off our map of reality in any... Read more »
By Therese Rowley, Ph.D.,
October 14, 2010 at 10:13 am
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