“I drew chalk outlines like some kind of strange murder scene. But nothing was being killed except my idea of myself as needing to be perfect.” On making one’s own trousers, and on showing our...

“Let’s talk about what happens when we all make art. And I don’t mean everybody has to be trained. I don’t mean everybody has to be making beautiful art. I do mean to interrogate what...

“There’s so much richness and cross pollination that happens when we go into those rabbit holes. When we allow ourselves the luxury of just opening the door and tumbling down. As intensives we are specialists...

“When I get stuck, I forget why I do any of the things that I do. I forget the sparkle in someone’s eye when they find out for the first time that they’re an intensive,...

“Maybe I will eat a single, ripe, peach. Anything. Anything to completion…. We forget that the restoration is possible. And then something happens and we remember. But we don’t have to wait for it to...

“What I discovered, over several false hires, is that the skills are just the tip of the iceberg. In fact, skills can be trained, sometimes skills are the least important part of the iceberg.” Using...

“Today, what does your body say? What do you need to say no to? What is your body saying no to?” Listening to our bodies. Listening to our guts. Sometimes we have a bad feeling...

“pleasure doesn’t start with orgasm-level excitement. Pleasure starts with the seeds of safety.” On the impact of stress and need on our abilities as (especially intensive) leaders; on how feeling safe makes us more human...

“It’s May. It’s Pleasure Month, here at the Intensives Institute. And we’re thinking about ways to allow our sense of pleasure to be part of our guidance system, to be part of our awareness system....

“Sometimes I’m right, and it doesn’t matter. What matters is that they’re having their life and they’re experiencing their thing. And when you bring that to leadership, it completely changes how you function… Above all,...