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	<title>Thoughts in a given moment</title>
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		<title>Opportunities on the cusp: what to do with an intriguing opportunity that isn&#8217;t world-bettering?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t posted for a few days, so it feels about time to do another check-in with myself: how is my intention to serve the humanizing impulse going?
My first thought is that I said a few not terribly nice things about a few people today behind their backs. They aren&#8217;t people who would ever know, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=momentia.wordpress.com&blog=4110772&post=78&subd=momentia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://momentia.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/opportunities-on-the-cusp-what-to-do-with-an-intriguing-opportunity-that-isnt-world-bettering/</link>
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		<title>An overlooked gift and a healing bomb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am riding a wave these last few days, being tossed between anxiety and contentment. At this very moment I&#8217;m sitting in a dirty little vegetarian restaurant waiting for a friend, and up until about two minutes ago I was fretting, still about the group I&#8217;m facilitating. Then, all of a sudden, right next to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=momentia.wordpress.com&blog=4110772&post=76&subd=momentia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://momentia.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/an-overlooked-gift-and-a-healing-bomb/</link>
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		<title>Fault lines and facilitation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I’m still ruminating on the fault lines running underneath the surface of the group that I’ve been facilitating.  Funny that this weekend I was thinking, “I love my job!” and now I’m thinking, “My job causes me a lot of stress!”
Yesterday morning on my bike ride to work I decided that to honour [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=momentia.wordpress.com&blog=4110772&post=73&subd=momentia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://momentia.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/fault-lines-and-facilitation/</link>
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		<title>Being true to the work &amp; group conflict</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still chewing on the events of the day. I facilitated the first day of a new program. Interesting, thoughtful small group of participants, not without some internal stresses and tensions. A good challenge for me, but not 100% pleasant.
I&#8217;ve been thinking this evening about how to negotiate the tensions so that we don&#8217;t just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=momentia.wordpress.com&blog=4110772&post=70&subd=momentia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://momentia.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/being-true-to-the-work-group-conflict/</link>
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		<title>Following the humanizing impulse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m reading a book (and, apparently, reconstituting this blog from the dead) called Positivity, by Barbara Fredrickson. She was a professor in my department at the University of Michigan when I was a graduate student there, but I didn&#8217;t know her very well; I just knew that she studied positive emotions. Traditionally psychologists studied just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=momentia.wordpress.com&blog=4110772&post=67&subd=momentia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://momentia.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/following-the-humanizing-impulse/</link>
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		<title>Everything in service of a humanizing impulse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I read an article in the UTNE Reader (the link is to UTNE, but the article isn&#8217;t available online at this time) about an American soldier who committed suicide after returning home from Iraq. I started crying on the bus and when that little swell of emotion died down it left behind, as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=momentia.wordpress.com&blog=4110772&post=63&subd=momentia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://momentia.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/everything-in-service-of-a-humanizing-impulse/</link>
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		<title>Need for affiliation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past days I&#8217;ve been pondering my ennui, plumbing for patterns that keep me entrenched in a day-to-day lethargy that is, frankly, boring me to death. I&#8217;m tired of the internet (no offense!), I&#8217;m tired of hedging my bets and keeping all the doors open, I&#8217;m tired of gathering information. I&#8217;m in a rut [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=momentia.wordpress.com&blog=4110772&post=58&subd=momentia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://momentia.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/58/</link>
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		<title>Odd jobs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I had such a wonderful weekend. Sunday B. and I had a lovely, slow morning that stretched out until 1pm, at which time we ventured out on our bicycles. It was beautiful out! Sunny, and almost warm. This January is so dramatically different than our first January in Vancouver, when it rained 29 out of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=momentia.wordpress.com&blog=4110772&post=55&subd=momentia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://momentia.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/odd-jobs/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on craft</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two days ago B. sent me an email from work. &#8220;I was just recollecting two dreams I had last night,&#8221; she said, and I paraphrase. &#8220;One was that I was climbing up a ladder to climb into a window in  a house. The piece of the house I grabbed tore loose, and I fell really [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=momentia.wordpress.com&blog=4110772&post=52&subd=momentia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://momentia.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/thoughts-on-craft/</link>
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		<title>Size and place</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in London.
I&#8217;ve always considered myself a city person. To be happy, I need people around, and access to quirky events and cultural activities. I don&#8217;t need mountains, forests or oceans, or even lakes, unlike my partner B., who needs a quick route to Nature, and more than just a nice park. I&#8217;m content with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=momentia.wordpress.com&blog=4110772&post=50&subd=momentia&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://momentia.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/size-and-place/</link>
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