Police, secret service agents & FBI are everywhere.
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Conflict resolution, Social Responsibility
Police, secret service agents & FBI are everywhere. And those are only the ones I can see. I wonder how many snipers are stationed out of sight. Roads are blocked with huge cement bomb blast protectors. Traffic is cordoned off & diverted, while the streets are a colourful riot of every skin shade you can […]
Tags: action, paul hawken, reflection, social change, united nations
Hang out in your head & reflect, then get up off the couch & take action. Rinse. Repeat.
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Diversity & culture
There’s a time to speak & a time to listen. There’s a time to reflect & a time to act Last week was for reflection. Today’s for action. Based on a traumatic incident I had while in the ICU, in the first of this 3 series post I talked about the power […]
Tags: action, ally, films for action, gender, power, privilege, racism, reflection, sexism, social change
There’s a time to tell your own story & a time to hear others
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Diversity & culture
There’s a time to speak & a time to listen, There’s a time to tell your own story & a time to hear others, There’s a time to take a break because you can & a time to take a break because you have to, There’s a time to reflect & a time to act. […]
Tags: action, change management, kelly diels, patti digh, praxis, reflection, sexism, social change, wellness. racism
5 lessons from trekking with camels
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication, Travel
A blast of pungent, loamy, putrid smell wafted by my nose. Next came an odd, indescribable sounds of protest – a whine, guttural groan & deep, back of the throat rumbling wrapped into one. Turning around I saw our beasts of burden for the first time – 3 camels that would accompany us on a trekking safari […]
Tags: collaboration, fit, pacing, perspective, reflection, second look
Silence is the true friend that never betrays
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Communication
“Silence is the true friend that never betrays” said Confucius (551-479 BC), Chinese thinker & educator. Me thinks he was a Head Life Lens™. Reflection, deep thought & analysis are the medicine that prevent jumping blindly over a cliff with hasty ill-considered actions. Take a deep breath … and …. think. ~~TGIF- each Friday I […]
Tags: confucius, reflection
My stop then go kid & what I learned from buying a spatula
Posted by Lee-Anne Ragan | Filed under Change management & wellness, Communication, Creativity & innovation
I have two kids. One is an extremer Stop Life Lens™ and 1 is an extremer Go Life Lens™. (Go Life Lenses™ being oriented towards action – yes, let’s try it, jump in! and Stop Life Lenses™ being oriented towards reflection, rumination and thinking it over – hang on, wait a minute, let me think!). […]
Tags: contemplation, go lens, lessons in learning, musing, reflection, stop lens