Category Archives: Healing and Wholeness

Where compassion?

Posted on November 15, 2013 by dgermann

Where are our community’s nutrient places where compassion can first take root? Where in yourself are your senses of injustice, ethics, conscience and rage? Where in yourself can you find the strength and resolve to stand up for, to speak … Continue reading →

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Compassion acts

Posted on November 14, 2013 by dgermann

What are the compassionate practices already at work in this place? What is this place? What can it be? Can compassionate community mean something concrete to this place? What specific skills and attitudes lead to compassionate caring for those approaching … Continue reading →

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Compassion how?

Posted on November 13, 2013 by dgermann

How might we show compassion for each of the persons we have identified? What might compassion look like, beyond what we are already doing? What are the barriers and things which slow our compassion, and how might we get beyond … Continue reading →

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the story that holds them all

Posted on November 11, 2013 by dgermann

Story comes through conversing. Story uses conversation to weave movement, indeed to weave itself. We meet: we make a story together. The story is us, and the story is you and the story is me. We create each of these … Continue reading →

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Let’s make conversation

Posted on November 9, 2013 by dgermann

Let’s make conversation conversation rich, textured and opening :- Doug.

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It is a month or two off

Posted on November 8, 2013 by dgermann

It is a month or two off, you know it will be a gentle death, as gradual or short as you like. You have time to get used to the idea, time to gather special people around if you wish, … Continue reading →

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Possible links: POST and compassion?

Posted on November 7, 2013 by dgermann

What are the possible links between POST and a compassionate community? :- Doug.

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Where is love in POST?

Posted on November 6, 2013 by dgermann

Where is love in POST? Where is love in Conversation? Where is compassion? :- Doug.

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Maybe wisdom is the wind

Posted on October 28, 2013 by dgermann

What is my wisdom? Maybe there is another way to look at it, a different question. Maybe wisdom is not a thing, especially not to possess. Maybe it is a way of being, a movement through us, with us, some … Continue reading →

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Clients and lawyers, patients and doctors: growing together

Posted on October 15, 2013 by dgermann

We have this picture of us as lawyers sitting here across the desk from clients, working on them and their static issues and opportunities. Of course we know it is a moving target, but we see ourselves and our clients … Continue reading →

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Sometimes we rest

Posted on October 14, 2013 by dgermann

Everything is moving—but not always at the same speed—sometimes we rest. :- Doug.

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Save the world–or savor?

Posted on October 12, 2013 by dgermann

Do we save the world—or savor? :- Doug.

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What has been the meaning of your life?

Posted on October 11, 2013 by dgermann

What has been the meaning of your life? What can it be? :- Doug.

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Where is the wholeness in your life?

Posted on October 10, 2013 by dgermann

Where is the wholeness in your life? :- Doug.

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The deepest levels of your life?

Posted on October 7, 2013 by dgermann

What would take your life to the deepest levels? :- Doug.

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There once was a gathering of a dozen sages in South Bend

Posted on October 2, 2013 by dgermann

There once was a gathering of a dozen sages in South Bend. They were the last of the sages known on earth and they were intent on something: a bold new story. A procreation of sages, a bringing forth from … Continue reading →

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Beautiful and worthwhile aging

Posted on September 27, 2013 by dgermann

What’s beautiful and worthwhile about this land called aging? Why are we headed there? :- Doug.

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