Chiron

I can't stand Christmas.  Most holidays set my teeth on edge.  Some of it is the music-- omnipresent, cloying.  Occasionally I can break...

Multidimensional projects are interesting to teach and both interesting and damnably difficult to write.  "Meditations on Violence...

Sampling error, cherry-picking and story telling. In the most recent post on scenarios , I said " There are a very small percentage o...

I know that there are more, that this just scratches the surface of a way to look at the world, but I know two, and only two, of the Sacred ...

This came up in an e-mail exchange, and I wanted to expand here. Most stuff in real life can be avoided or de-escalated.  If you have been ...

I'm late to this. Tim Bown's book, "Leading the Way: Maximize Your Potential as a Martial Arts Instructor" is out and av...

Good unwind weekend.  Talk, swing swords at each other, mix it up unarmed a little, talk some more.  Got some of my internal assumptions ide...

Building from a piece of the last post and from Neil's comment: "Also, couldn't it be argued that this behavior is related ev...

I was asked a while ago to put something together for Bullying.  It's getting a lot of press.  There are a lot of programs, and people s...

Over two weeks.  That's a new record. Lots to recap. Upstate NY.  Good time.  The groups were small, and that was cool because it ga...

If I did poetry worth a damn, I would have written some today. Two long days of training-- twelve and eight hours-- with a very good group ...

I don't have much of a fantasy life.  Rarely daydream in the traditional sense.  My mental resting state is a half doze where images flo...

Wake up call at 0330 in Budapest this morning.  Maybe this morning.  I think that would have been 1830 yesterday for this time zone.  Lots o...

I love teaching cops. Teaching martial artists I am aware that most of them, from rank beginners to 'modern combat masters' are get...

These are the guys I spent last weekend with. Enjoy.

I’m writing this on a train in Eastern Europe between Budapest and Prague.   Don't know when I'll be able to post it.  Probably ...

I've been letting things settle, thinking things through.  The three day "Ethical Protector" class from RGI was good.  Import...

One of the tenets of Conflict Communications is "Work from the common ground." If you and I disagree and we only talk about poin...

Just finished the Bujinkan Camp. Good times, good people.  Largely due to Jack Hoban .  Some of you have heard about my first exposure to ...

The myth of Pandora's box always confused me.  It made no sense.  After all, Hope was in the box filled with all of the evils and ailmen...