Ask "Crone OTD": (Crone Judith Pauly: "Older Than Dirt")

A note from OTD Judith

Thanks for all of your comments on last month's “underwear” letter. I want you to know it is TRUE that early on in WW facilitators were sent in their staff packets “tips for facilitators” with the suggestion to wear red underpants turned inside out. It came from a belief that by doing this it would help keep unwanted energies away. It is no longer sent out. click to read complete advice column.

Reaping the Benefits of Your Intuition by Alyce Barry

In the business world, it's often called "instinct" -- the feeling in your gut that tells you to do something. Following your instinct is also called "playing a hunch."

When you follow your instinct or play a hunch, you're listening to your intuition, the voice inside that knows what it knows, regardless of what anyone else says.

Intuition is capable of telling us things that we have no "rational" way of knowing. It's capable of what looks a little like magic.    click here to read full article

Accidental Zen by Mary Schanuel

The other day, I woke up and my mind stayed behind.

All day long I struggled to make words with a tongue that felt like an ignorant fat worm and was just as uncooperative. I left rambling phone messages capped with brief apologies and hoped I would be out when the calls were returned.

The dumbness even affected my writing. Offering writing tips to an employee, I jotted “sentice.”

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Multicultural Work Reverberates Throughout the Midwest Region  by Leslie Recht

This summer has been awash with opportunities for multicultural work in the Midwest.

In Kenosha, Wisconsin, on July 13, there was an "Isms and Issues" one-day workshop on racism, lead by Rick Broniec and Henry Thurman, with interns Teresita Fawcett and Josefa Jensen. This was an introductory opportunity to discuss racism, hear some definitions of terms that help to define the ways that racism operates in our society . . .     click here to read full article

Bridges and Boundaries Workshop: Not What I Hoped For  by Harriet Hirsch

I left the Bridges and Boundaries Workshop feeling sad and angry.

I was sad because I didn’t find a way to see how I behave in racist ways. I was angry because my attempts to do so were treated with scorn, bullying and attacks. I experienced white-bashing, arrogance, and shaming, from the presenters directed at the white participants.      click here to read full article

Find Your E-Circle

If you’re looking for an Empowerment-Circle in the Chicago or Wisconsin areas, contact Emily Halliday, E-Circle Coordinator for Women in Circle, at 773-764-2980 (home) or 847-899-0315 (cell) or ecircle@womenincircle.org.

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