Tag Archives: awareness

(#418) Helping A Village Find Its Voice

Posted on May 27, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

Listen and respect one another. Find your voice. Use your voice. Pursue your rainbows.  We have heard that the village raises up a child.  What do we do, however, if the village has inadequate infrastructure, health disparities, high crime and poverty, … Continue reading →

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(#416) A Safe Place to Land

Posted on May 13, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

I kept hearing about the connections between congregants and neighborhood, congregants and congregants, as well as congregants and their own souls. Consider this. It’s 1993. You are an exuberant minister with a young and growing family.  You walk into a … Continue reading →

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(#415) Does the Disturbance Disturb You?

Posted on May 6, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

We limit our own growth and spiritual development. “I’ll be really happy if Negative Neil doesn’t come to the party.”  I go to the party. Sure enough, Negative Neil attends. I grouse, complain, and shuffle off to a corner to … Continue reading →

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(#413) Don’t Figure It Out

Posted on April 22, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

Leave room…develop the concept…be free…listen. My current improv instructor reminded the class last week to “get out our heads” and embrace the present. No script. Enhance your partner’s offer. Sense what exists in front of yourself in any given scene. … Continue reading →

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(#412) Choices: Where Do You Choose To Be?

Posted on April 15, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

Once we choose who we want to be, people grow “to the way in which they have been exercised.” – William James – One of my yoga practices this past week, inspired this blog.  As the instructor coached us into … Continue reading →

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(#408) Self-Evaluation

Posted on March 18, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

Narrow the focus and help yourself understand what does or does not serve and nourish your soul. I have a quick four question survey I ask audiences to complete for me.  It asks them to consider what we did during … Continue reading →

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(#402) Over Your Head

Posted on February 4, 2018 by Steve Piscitelli

The exceptional leaders take their moments of vulnerability and build on them. The most effective leaders I have collaborated with found themselves there more times than you might imagine. If you haven’t found yourself there yet, you will. At least, … Continue reading →

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(#396) Circle the Wagons?

Posted on December 24, 2017 by Steve Piscitelli

Rather than circling the wagons, maybe we should let the horses run. NOTE to my followers.  This will be my last post for 2017.  Next week in this space you will find my annual end-of-year retrospective.  Thank you for following, … Continue reading →

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(#391) Hotdogs, Weak Signals, and Promising Practices

Posted on November 19, 2017 by Steve Piscitelli

What signals need to be heeded for the future? How can you move “best practices” to “promising practices”? One legend holds that a baseball scorecard salesman introduced the hotdog to the baseball park. The story unfolds in 1905 when Harry … Continue reading →

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(#390) A Seven Week Challenge for Purpose and Growth

Posted on November 12, 2017 by Steve Piscitelli

May you finish 2017 with clarity, peace, and vision for your future as well as those in your life. I am offering you the chance to engage in a seven week journey. Over the past four or five years I … Continue reading →

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