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Personal Transformation

Cognition & Communications ⸱ David Sibbet

Can We Pivot Toward Hope?

In politics a “pivot” is a turn in another direction. Lots of different turning is called “spinning.” When we stop spinning and begin to collectively listen and find common ground, it can birth a new story. And new stories can guide new decisions. And belief and energy in a new
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Cognition & Communications ⸱ David Sibbet

A Radical New Theory of Collapse

I sustain a keen interest in metaphors and plausible narratives about where we are headed as a society, and frankly, I am worried. I was rocked recently by a close reading of sociobiologist and futurist Rebecca Costa’s 2012 best seller, The Watchman’s Rattle: A Radical New Theory of
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Cognition & Communications ⸱ David Sibbet

Are You Feeling More Anxious These Days?

As summer heats up, I’m thinking ahead to the fall and Leading as Sacred Practice (LASP), the week-long conference that Gisela Wendling, Alan Briskin, Holger Scholz and I will be facilitating this October 23-27 (2017) at IONS’ Earthrise Retreat Center in Petaluma, California. Last year’s gathering in Germany
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Family ⸱ David Sibbet

Life After Death—The Gift of Consciousness

My life mate of 46 years, Susan Herron Sibbet, passed away three years ago today. She died in my arms, with our children side by side. Our house had become a sanctuary. Today, amazingly, she lives on in the form of two books that are being published. One, announced today
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Family ⸱ David Sibbet

The Sacred Life of Boxes

For the past six months two seemingly different circumstances have been “working” me. The first is a commitment that Gisela Wendling, Holger Scholtz and I made last summer to organize a special retreat at his family farm, the Beuerhof (in the Vulcan Eifel region of Germany East of Cologne). We
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Family ⸱ David Sibbet

Crucibles of Change: Learning to Love Transformation

Crucibles are on my mind. A crucible, as you may know, is a container that can stand a lot of heat and is used in chemistry and metallurgy to combine elements into new forms. As a student of metaphor, I love applying the image to change. It points so aptly
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Graphic Facilitation ⸱ David Sibbet

What's Our Edge? A New Year's Question

The time between Christmas and New Year's always beckons me to think about what is emerging in my life. The ceremonies during the holidays are clues – which decorations call for attention? What kinds of rearrangements in my desktops and altars mirror what I am working on? How do
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Graphic Facilitation ⸱ David Sibbet

Stepping Up to Big Questions

I’m on my way to Germany with Gisela Wendling, The Grove’s Director of Global Learning, to conduct a new kind of workshop for me and The Grove. Called a Visual Interventions LAB, it is moving into the space long held by the National Training LABS that have been
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Community Building ⸱ David Sibbet

Winter Solstice—Trusting the Return of the Light

This winter the solstice (Saturday December 21 at 11:11 PST) marked a turn to a new year at a level I've not felt for a while. I usually spend it with my Elder's Circle down in the Santa Cruz area conducting ceremony in a hollowed
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Family ⸱ David Sibbet

Lessons from the High Sierras—Taking Stock of 2013

I always spend time in the dark of the year thinking through what is lying deep in the soil of my life that will spring forth in the next cycle of the sun. This year I've drawn deeply from the lessons I learned as a boy growing up
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Cognition & Communications ⸱ David Sibbet

New Years Day with My Dad

My father, the Reverend Laing Witherspoon Sibbet, passed away this New Year’s Day at Sutter Solano Medical Center, in Vallejo, California. His death, as did his life, touched me deeply, and I’d like to share some of this story. He was 93, and up until his last sermon
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Family ⸱ David Sibbet

Choices

For months I’d been looking forward to a special meeting in New Mexico at the Village of the Shining Stones near Abiquiu called the First Peace Gathering. It promised to be a very unique and inspiring event, initiated by an organization called Ehama, the teaching vehicle of two traditional
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