Fools and Nets: Who Survives and How
A fool, a fool. I met a fool i’ the forest, A motley fool. (Jaques, As You Like It, Act 2 Scene 7) If [...]
Meat and Salt: Equinox
When I first began thinking about Shakespeare’s King Lear and arrogance, I looked in the text for the youngest daughter’s response to her father’s [...]
Arrogance
My Shakespearian actor husband, Chuck Wilcox, began his Boulder Colorado Shakespeare Festival career playing Kent in King Lear. Kent is a truth-telling peer and [...]
Attitude: Unto All Generations
Many personal conflicts seed and grow from conscious and unconscious acceptance of ancestral conflicts. Until we understand our inheritance we can be trapped inside [...]
Attitude: Deep Roots, Dangerous Webs
Looking inside E for Engage means exploring Attitude. Don’t underestimate this word. Attitude is the key that unlocks the conflict. Two attitudes, at the [...]
Working the Edge
Case Study #1: Twenty Years of Baggage Question 1: When did you first become aware of, get to know each other? [...]
Tug of War
Three words can encompass a conflict: Root, Web and Edge. If you know these three things you can manage or even resolve most conflicts. [...]
Have Baggage. Looking for Conflict.
If we have a negative experience with conflict we tend to avoid, suppress, smooth over, “wait for emotions to cool down”, deny it’s happening, [...]
Conflict as Transformer
Conflict delivers us to the Edge of a transformation. We have no need to disagree, argue, or fight with others whose understanding mirrors our [...]
