two of my teams at work

associate core director

I am now an Associate Core Director of the McCarthy Technologies system. Only one step away from the top certification, Certified Core Director. The only thing I'm lacking is having booted an entire organization.

interviewed for a book, I write best by speaking

Fran Fisher, founder of The Academy for Coach Training, is writting a book on the Living Your Vision process, working title: Release Your Brilliance.

She sent me the list of interview questions. I responded in writing, then today we had a phone-interview to follow up. She and I are surprisingly aligned.

I noticed the difference between my written answers -- which were careful and edited -- and my spoken answers in conversation, which were boundless, authentic, true. It's the same thing I've noticed in this blog.

Maybe I should be writing my book by talking it.

Bono - there are stories to tell that are not songs

I was looking for people who are fully expressed as a team, fully expressed as themselves, and fully expressed in the world. People like I am becoming.

Reading Kipley's blog turned me on to U2 and their lead singer Bono.

I just read a great book of interviews with him, BONO in conversation with Michka Assayas.

This is a stunning book. It's someone who's made it all the way to rock-and-roll stardom, change-the-world activist & ethicist, and family guy who takes his kids to school. A man and an artist who has grown up all the way, and is fully himself.

Bono knew Michka well. This is their liesurely & reflective conversation over three years.

"I don't think of U2 as a band that makes music for 20 thousand people. I think of us as a band that sings to one person in their ear, in their headphones, as they are going to sleep."

"I don't want to be naked and vulnerable on stage. But I can't hit the high notes unless I am."

"Ordinarily, I would not make a book like this. I would rather go be with my kids. But if I can make this a book for my kids, it's worth it."

"I'm a person who actually doesn't like to look back in my work, in my day, in general. But maybe this is the moment. There are stories to tell that are not songs."

-- Bono

bootcamp & theatre

People who have learned theatre from me first go way further with theCore. They enter hungry, soft, limitless, trusting, true.

Whatever I'm headed toward, I need to teach theatre first.

home, work, bootcamp, i am the eightfold path

Jeff has moved out. I changed the answering machine to my voice.

I made the livingroom into an art studio. It has a big white table at one end, and couches opposite for gazing. I sleep in the small bedroom downstairs. I have no vision for upstairs. The winds are still settling.

Work is absorbing. I am doing my game project. And I am leading a Bootcamp to teach the McCarthy shared-vision system, "theCore," to two other program managers. I called it a cross-divisional best practices group. Like a great-winged seabird, it is lifting. Everything is converging. Theatre, bootcamp, vision teams, life-coaching, software. It feels like one big rehearsal room, except what we are making is our lives.

I am, finally, trained.

Ania arrives this Friday. I pick her up in the evening.

In my office, eight yellow flowers spray from the shale base.

Morgan, my life coach, graduated from the Academy last week. I went. It regrounded me with the Academy. And with Morgan, who lives in Oregon.

I have new eyes to see with, but no words for what I see.

joy, wisdom, instinct --
paint the wall yellow, make way for
babies; all lives change

i am the eightfold
path, iron arms outstretched, shiva
fingers mudra-soft

the electric bill
and the monastery are
equally my own

sanctuary makes
a sacred place to breathe; built
new each fumbling day

if i went to Tibet
i would only miss the
blond boardrooms of home

where souls like starsails
furl and catch, bellying to
terrifying skies

Fixed the Odin Teatret links

I fixed the links in the post with all the Odin links. This has many of my favorite writings, especially the "Odin zero" thru "Odin 7" posts.

I've lost 18 pounds in the last 6 weeks

It doesn't show yet, but I can feel it when I move and sit. I fit in my slimmer jeans again.

My pattern is, I do all my growing ahead of time -- over a long time, typically -- then make all the changes fast & easily. I think that is happening with my body. Suddenly I don't feel heavy any more. I feel long and lean and like my body just needs to catch up with the rest of me now. Weight is melting away.

It has coincided with greater alignment at work. I am doing meaningful work of great joy, that requires and extends my theatre & team skills.