This blog post is an excerpt from the forthcoming book “Raising Children in the Midst of Global Crisis: A Compassionate Guidebook for Parenting in Turbulent Times” by Jo delAmor Beyond loving connection, my parenting and teaching style boils down to paying attention with presence and deeply respecting the kids in my care. If we’re paying attention with … Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Cultural Transformation
Parenting As Activism
This blog post is an excerpt from the forthcoming book “Raising Children in the Midst of Global Crisis: A Compassionate Guidebook for Parenting in Turbulent Times” by Jo delAmor In this book we engage parenting as a form of activism. Or, more correctly, what Bayo Akomolafe has termed post activism. It’s about responding to the needs of … Continue Reading →
Partnering with Your Children for a Bright Future
This blog post is an excerpt from the forthcoming book “Raising Children in the Midst of Global Crisis: A Compassionate Guidebook for Parenting in Turbulent Times” by Jo delAmor The most powerful thing we can do for our children in these uncertain times is to join them in facing this unprecedented time on Earth with honesty, courage … Continue Reading →
Nurturing New Paradigm Qualities in our Children
This blog post is an excerpt from the forthcoming book “Raising Children in the Midst of Global Crisis: A Compassionate Guidebook for Parenting in Turbulent Times” by Jo delAmor “In a very real way we are writing our own future, the future of our world, on the hearts and minds of our children. Let’s think deeply, love … Continue Reading →
Reflections on ‘Business As Usual’…for parents
This blog post is an excerpt from the forthcoming book “Raising Children in the Midst of Global Crisis: A Compassionate Guidebook for Parenting in Turbulent Times” by Jo delAmor Joanna Macy, wise eldress, scholar and root teacher of the Work That Reconnects, describes the situation we’re living in through the lens of a few different stories that … Continue Reading →
Raising Children for an Uncertain Future
“You cannot raise your children as your parents raised you, because your parents raised you for a world that no longer exists.” Gretchen Schmelzer The world is changing rapidly. We are living in uncertain times. To some extent the times have always been uncertain. Throughout the generations, parents have never known what the future will … Continue Reading →
The Multi-Myth with Michael Meade
In our October session of Speak the Spark we had the incredible pleasure of listening to Michael Meade, author of the recently released book, Awakening the Soul (among many others). What an amazingly warm, authentic, deeply rooted human being!!! I was completely enthralled for the full two hours of his sharing and felt deeply held in … Continue Reading →
Living into a New Story with Charles Eisenstein
When I saw the lineup of guest teachers for the Speak the Spark course I was immediately in. Ten of the most brilliant thinkers and radical, change-making storytellers of our times were scheduled to walk us through this journey of exploring sacred storytelling for a new paradigm. The first among them, and one of the … Continue Reading →
Dianic Creation Story
Let us begin at the beginning… Before the Speak the Spark course even really begun we received our first assignment. To find a creation story that spoke to our hearts and to share it with the group. Creation stories are the first stories…they are the stories of beginnings, of origins…the stories upon which all other … Continue Reading →
Back to School…Divinity Calling
My quest to find a path of authentic service that supports the personal and cultural transformation that I feel is necessary for the healing of our world has lead me away from business…and towards the ministry. And therefore, back to school. I shifted out of coaching as my full time focus in 2014 so I … Continue Reading →
