I recorded this last week at of the key stops on our VisionForce Safari is Morris Thuku’s home and school in Elburgon, Kenya. Watch this beautiful welcome we were given, and allow yourself to RECEIVE it fully. FEEL your WELCOME to this world, to LIFE, to Africa, to Kenya, to your heart! Have you ever received such a beautiful welcome? Tell me about it in the comments...
Read MoreSharing 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...
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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...
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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...
Read MoreI sat down with my new friend, Farah Mushtaq, to discuss plans for the VisionForce Safari this summer, and asked her if I could record our impromptu conversation. Listen to her speak of Africa! I met this visionary woman by chance here in Chiang Rai, Thailand a week ago, and now she’ll be part of our adventure this summer. She started and runs a small orphanage in Nakuru and is involved in...
Read MoreAs one of the perks for the crowd funding campaigns to raise money to finish and publish the book I’m writing, I’m offering audio commentary to supplement the stories in the book. Tonight I felt a desire to share Derek’s Story, a sample of the kind of audio commentary I’m creating. Derek was a troubled young man I took under my wing, gave him a job in my landscaping...
Read MoreMy upcoming book, VISIONARY HEART: Bringing Down My Walls, Standing For My People, shares many of the stories of my life as they relate to the work offered here at VisionForce. This chapter tells a story of my walls of judgment beginning to form towards one of my younger brothers. I wanted to walk away in judgment, but then I finding a place to stand where my heart could see him again. Finding a...
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