Athena Group Int’l articles
Honoring Different Ways of Knowing
I recently returned from a visit to Bali, where I was immersed in the culture, people and a land that opened my mind and heart to more expansive ways of being and knowing. Rarely do we have an opportunity to step away from our day-to-day lives and truly open to new ways of seeing and experiencing the […]
The Lost Art of Storytelling
This summer I had the opportunity to work with a young man from Nigeria whose stories were quite thought provoking and validated our societal need to listen more generously. In our hurry to achieve and accomplish, many of us have lost the capacity for taking in much more than sound bites. The important process of storytelling […]
FIERCE INDIVIDUALISM: Our Best and Worst National Value
Climate change is tied with the Islamic State as the most-feared security threat across much of the world — except in the United States, where it is the third-most severe perceived threat, after ISIS and cyberwarfare. Just 56 percent of Americans surveyed, identified global warming as the most serious threat to the country according to a poll […]