I’m managing a lot of change in my life at the moment, hence this entry.

As a result of all the change happening I am re-reading sections of an excellent book my coach recommended to me a couple of years ago.  The book is called The Anatomy of Change: A way to move through life’s transitions by Dr. Richard Strozzi-Heckler, PhD.  It is a groundbreaking book in many ways.  I recommend it highly.

Although it was first published in 1984, it continues to be on the leading edge of thinking about how to manage change, and how to access your own inherent wisdom about what YOU need when you are going through transitions.  It is unconventional and very modern in some ways yet it also draws on ancient wisdom traditions.

I will mention only one brief piece of advice here that is covered in the book: when you are experiencing a lot of change, give yourself time – even just 15 minutes – a couple of times a week to just sit quietly and listen for wisdom from within.

Meditation is an excellent tool for this, but you don’t have to meditate to access your wisdom.  Sitting quietly in a place with no major stimuli to distract you can work as well.  Albert Einstein said he often came up with his best ideas after staring idly out the window at the sky for undefined periods of time.

Here’s wishing each one of us the patience to listen to our own wisdom.

Hi everyone.  I’m baaaack!   As you can see from the date of this post, I’ve been back for a while – and I’ve been busy.

It was a great trip.  Mixed in many ways: difficult physically sometimes, up and down emotionally, full of incredible natural beauty, and in some ways almost surreal.  Sometimes I think I haven’t even been there.

We accomplished our primary goal, which was to raise funds as well as inspire others to get involved with the Charitable Organization “Fondation Sur la pointe des pieds” www.pointedespieds.com.  We reached our final destiation after four fairly long days of kayaking (15-23 kilometres per day, setting up and taking down camp each day), but the journey was with it.  Along the way we passed over a hundred icebergs; sometimes navigating our way through an entire field of them.  And when we arrived at our destination, we were surrounded by glaciers making their way down into the ocean.

We had the good fortune of seeing a piece of the glacier fall off and become a new iceberg, and we also had the pleasure of seeing a large iceberg split apart and flip over.  It is truly magical.  We also had a polar bear within 3 km of our camp on our last night.  As much as this sounds potentially exciting, it is quite dangerous.  I learned that apparently polar bears are the only bears that have a taste for human blood.  This means they won’t simply kill you out of fear or anger, they might hunt you and EAT you.  Wow.

We also enjoyed our brief stay in Iceland on the way home.  I had been there before, spending over 3 weeks there in 1996 and circling the whole country by car with a British friend of mine.  It’s a beautiful and interesting place.

Of course, words will never do it justice.  To get a sense of what I’m saying, Google “Greenland” and check out photos of this beautiful country.  It is remarkable: vast, largely untouched, rugged, etc.  It reminds me a lot of Canada’s remote regions.