Part 1: My Grandfather — Earlier this year I visited a traditional Chinese medicine/TMC doctor in Atlanta for the first time in my eleven years living in the United States. The whole experience felt like visiting with an old friend. I enjoyed the conversation, the atmosphere, the pulse reading. Towards the end of the visit…

A Thanksgiving Meditation —

Complexity and Dao Series #3 — While complexity leadership theory was the crowning jewel of my doctoral advisor Dr. Russ Marion’s academic career, it has also become the foundation of my emerging leadership consulting career. As a young doctoral student, I was completely enamored with complexity theory. I remember having enthusiastic conversations with Aunt about it…

“The coaching circle yesterday was a temporary alternative world!” This thought popped in my head as I was savoring that sense of buoyancy from last afternoon’s coaching circle while taking my morning walk. A big smile rippled across my face. My favorite sentence from Priya Parker’s book The Art of…

Over the past week I have been enjoying “Mountain Time” while camping with my husband and our pup Sadie, amidst the beauty of spring in the Blue Ridge Mountains. I have always believed that “to think out of the box, one needs to first get out of the box”. The…

2023 New Year transition reflection series 2 — Chinese New Year is one of the most nostalgic times for me. Last night while I was talking with my Aunt, my mother’s younger sister, I was reminded of two distant memories. The first was how we used to celebrate the New Year. The culture of my home village in…

Letting go and letting come in the U movement — The U movement encapsulates the essence of change: letting go and letting come. In modern society where humanity is so obsessed with material pursuits, so lost in sensual stimulation, the scale is tipped over towards letting come. Most people want to have more. However, in light of a person’s holistic…

2023 New Year transition reflection series 1 —

I have been hosting coaching circles since 2019 when I first started my u-lab journey. While some circles come and go, others stay together for long periods of time. I was new to the Theory U world when I attended the Presencing Foundation program at Cape Cod in November 2019…