Ecology

Leadership as ecological, distributed, and relational rather than positional or heroic. Mycelial leadership is mostly invisible when healthy, spread across the network, able to survive rupture, and composts harm rather than scapegoating it.

Pedestals, Podia, and Possibility: Precarious Leadership and Democracy’s Structural Strain

Precarious pedestals distort how we see leaders. From Olympic flame-outs to political platforms, symbolic elevation can mask structural fragility. What if the crisis isn’t personality—but architecture? A call for critical possibility thinking at democracy’s edge.

PLAY at Creative Recess

PLAY is not a break from seriousness — it is how we practice seriousness without becoming brittle. At Creative Recess, PLAY names an orientation to leadership, creativity, and lived experience: Possibility in Leadership, Art, and You.

Six Months Back in the Bluegrass

Being back in the Bluegrass hasn’t felt like a reset or a retreat. It’s felt like a settling — the kind that happens underground, quietly, without announcement. Roots don’t ask for applause. They ask for time.

Creative Recess, Human Rights, and the Inner Work of Global Change

Creative Recess explores how encounter-based practice complements human rights, the SDGs, and the Inner Development Goals by cultivating the relational conditions needed for ethical global change.

Mycelial Leadership

Leadership modeled on fungal networks: mostly invisible when healthy, moving nutrients, information, and support across the whole system.

Eco-Leadership

Leadership always happens inside living systems: social, cultural, ecological, political. Eco-leadership works with them, not over them.

Ecosystems Thinking

Systems are not machines; they are living networks. A way of seeing identity, organizations, and communities as ecosystems shaped by relationship.

December Solstice: Tilting Back Toward the Sun

On the winter solstice — after seven winters in Iowa and a cold return to Northern Kentucky — this is a reflection on rebuilding, play, and Creative Recess as a commons for imagination and care. Nothing suddenly resolves, but the direction changes.

My Second Soberversary: The Art of Beginning Again (Creative Recess 2.0 Begins)

Today is my soberversary — a quiet threshold, a return to myself, and the beginning of Creative Recess 2.0. Sobriety didn’t just pull me out of old patterns; it restored my imagination. This is Day One of something new — and something wickedly wonderful begins this Tuesday.