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Dear Reader,

Contemplating love as a global force is a great way to start a new year!  My conversation with Kay Sandberg last week is already a highlight of 2013. If you haven't listened or checked out Kay's work, I hope you will.  Her way of thinking and working is a model for all. 

After last week's radio show, I remembered fondly the power of a circle in my own life.  After September 11, 2001, a group of mothers in my children's school met to form a "peace circle." Through an organization called Peace x Peace, we were matched with another circle of caring people in Nigeria.  For the next seven years, our group of six met monthly in each other's homes, learning about Nigeria and other parts of the world, while exploring the topic of peace and what it meant in our daily lives and in the world. Through these conversations, we laughed, cried and rallied, even working together to organize aid for a refugee in need of support after a dangerous and unaided journey from a war-torn region to the United States.  This amazing group became dear friends and taught each other to trust the power of open and respectful conversation --  focusing less on actions and outcomes and more on receiving the wisdom that is present in every circle. From this respectful and compassionate stance, extraordinary outcomes really do arise quite effortlessly.

Next Monday, I am honored to interview the founding leaders of the Dalai Lama Foundation, Tenzin Tethong and Darlene Markovich. Like Kay, these leaders are deeply practiced in circle leadership and are using it to awake new awareness in the world. I can't wait and hope you'll be with me.  

 


Best wishes,

 





Kate Ebner
CEO
Nebo Company
Visionary Leader, Extraordinary Life on VoiceAmerica Business  


Monday, January 14, 2013     

11 AM Eastern Time

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Educating for Peace: 

The Vision of the Dalai Lama Foundation    

    

How can we bring peace to a violent world?

Join Host Kate Ebner as she explores the answer to this question with two founding members of the Dalai Lama Foundation, Tenzin Tethong, former Representative of the Dalai Lama in the US, and Darlene Markovich, President of the Committee of 100 for Tibet. With a mandate from the Dalai Lama himself, the Foundation works for a more peaceful world by reaching people through educational initiatives and raising awareness. The Foundation's innovative programs, include study circles, classroom curriculum, and a multi-artist project entitled The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama Foundation illuminates the principles of circle leadership and reinforces that each person can contribute something to the global endeavor for peace. This program is Part 2 of a five-part series on visionaries using circle leadership to manifest big changes in the world. Don't miss this extraordinary conversation!

Tenzin Tethong

Tenzin Tethong Tenzin N. Tethong is President of the Dalai Lama Foundation. He is the founder of key Tibet initiatives in the U.S. including the Tibet Fund, Tibet House-New York, and the International Campaign for Tibet. He is a former Representative of H.H. the Dalai Lama in the United States and former Chairman of the Tibetan Cabinet. Mr. Tethong currently serves as Chairman of the Committee of 100 for Tibet and as a visiting scholar at Stanford University.

Darlene Markovich

Darlene is a leader in strategic human resources and corporate communications with diverse experience providing broad solutions to complex organizational challenges.  She spent 28 years at ALZA Corporation before retiring to focus on nonprofit activities. In 2003, Darlene co-founded The Missing Peace Project. She presently serves on several boards including The Committee of 100 for Tibet, Kreddha International, and is Executive Director of The Dalai Lama Foundation. She is based in Palo Alto, California.


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Love as a Force for Global Healing 
and Social Justice

In early 2001, Kay Sandberg was working as a consultant at a Silicon Valley company. When she hugged a team member after a particularly poignant meeting, she was promptly told (albeit apologetically) by an HR worker that that she couldn't hug people at their company. At that moment, Kay realized that she was working in the wrong place. Kay found her next step while visiting John of God, the renowned spiritual healer, in Brazil on behalf of a friend. "That's where I had my awakening moment. I was called upon to found Global Force for Healing there. I didn't need to know how to do it, I just needed to show up. In that moment, in that meditation, I said yes." Today, the Global Force for Healing practices love and compassion through high impact grassroots projects. Kay says that it was actually "founded in my heart at that moment in Brazil."

Global Force for Healing is inspired by one of Kay's heroes, Mother Theresa, whose saying "Work is love made visible" could stand as an alternate mission statement for the organization. Global Force for Healing is partnering with One Heart World Wide to share best practices in delivering healthy babies in birthing centers in Bali, Guatemala and India. They are also supporting and convening women's donor networks (such as Women's Donor Network) in keeping with their goal to reduce suffering and poverty in the world by empowering women worldwide, a proven strategy for positive change. Through another partnership with The Dalai Lama Foundation, Global Force for Healing is launching an educational course focusing on love as a force for social justice.  
 
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Kindness
by Naomi Shihab Nye

Before you know what kindness really is 

you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What you held in your hand,
what you counted and carefully saved,
all this must go so you know
how desolate the landscape can be
between the regions of kindness.
How you ride and ride
thinking the bus will never stop,
the passengers eating maize and chicken
will stare out the window forever.

Before you learn the tender gravity of kindness,
you must travel where the Indian in a white poncho
lies dead by the side of the road.
You must see how this could be you,
how he too was someone 

who journeyed through the night with plans 

and the simple breath that kept him alive.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
You must wake up with sorrow.
You must speak to it till your voice
catches the thread of all sorrows
and you see the size of the cloth.

Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore, 

only kindness that ties your shoes
and sends you out into the day to mail letters and
purchase bread,
only kindness that raises its head
from the crowd of the world to say
it is I you have been looking for,
and then goes with you every where
like a shadow or a friend.

Appears in the collection Words Under the Words
Time for Some Tough Love

What do you do when your mentee just can't make any headway on a problem or issue, even after months of helpful suggestions from you (the mentor)? Check out some advice and sample questions from Nancy Lamberton on how to ask the right challenging questions to push your mentee toward a breakthrough.

 
January 11, 2013   
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Love as a Force for Global Healing and Social Justice
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On Love 

 

"I'd like to see love as the four-letter word of choice on everyone's lips." 

 

-- Kay Sandberg 

 Visionary Leader, Extraordinary Life, 1/7/13   

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