Sharing a slice of my life with you in advance of our upcoming VisionForce Safari! MONDAY – June 23, 2014 5:30am Wake with dreams of a new book: “Stand vs Position” (insights flowing after workshop for South Sudanese peace activists in Nairobi last week). They keep coming so I get out of bed, grab my laptop and get back under the covers (it’s chilly here at night). 6:00am...
Read More11:15am – Streets of Nakuru, Kenya “I’m going to Nairobi to facilitate a workshop,” I yell over the wind. I explain to my friendly motorcycle taxi driver, Dennis, that I’ll be back in 2 days. I hadn’t been in the country 24 hours when I’d been invited to co-facilitate a 2-Day workshop for SouthSudanese peace activists. I’d said, ”Yes” without hesitation, because I know this is the kind of...
Read MoreJUNE 17th, 11:15am – Streets of Nakuru, Kenya “I’m going to Nairobi to facilitate a workshop,” I yell over the wind. I explain to my friendly motorcycle taxi driver, Dennis, that I’ll be back in 2 days. I hadn’t been in the country 24 hours when I’d been invited to co-facilitate a 2-Day workshop for SouthSudanese peace activists. I’d...
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I’ve seen visions that my heart and mind will not allow me to let go of. I can never pretend I’ve not seen so clearly what I’ve seen. I must keep walking… I’m into year five of a sabbatical from facilitating the dojos for visionaries we at VisionForce call iStands. In 2010 I realized I had so much more to learn, and it was time to let go. I’ve traveled...
Read MoreVisionForce is an initiative that grows from a desire to serve and support those who feel a calling in their heart to stand for their people, their world, their values, their vision–in the face of anything: fear, doubt, judgment, grief, endless challenges and seeming impossibility. It’s for the single father, for example, who has been cut off from his children and is being judged by...
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This post is Part One of my first person account of my first trip to Africa in 2006 with Robyn Emerson (that’s her and me goofing to the left): I look out the window. Nothing but clouds below… The smart and responsible thing to do would be to say, “No.” Mother Culture was screaming it in fact. “No! Michael, are you crazy? You’ve been working so hard for so long, and you are starting to...
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