Trust

Healing a Health System....

Healing a Health System....

Can the Health System survive?

It comes down to the people.  It is not about their work, but how they feel; feeling valued, feeling your work is valuable to those you serve, and feeling valuable doing the work.  It is work as an extension of what you believe, what you love, and how you want the world to be reflected back to you.

For 22 years I have watched systems work to chart their way into the future. It is a difficult future; the Baby Boom generation is such that it is going to be a costly future as well.  It is not a problem, problems can be solved. This is a predicament, it is inevitable, it must be managed.  To manage a predicament people must bring their best, give it, and do that repeatedly.

Staying with strangers....

Staying with strangers....

They were kind and offered to put me up for the weekend. I did not know them, and they were trusting that this stranger in the house would be alright.  That is the principle of Couchsurfing. People generously open their homes to strangers passing through to spend a night.  I was coming back to Princeton for another Hakomi weekend, and the place I had stayed previously was not available.  I put my name out with my plans for my weekend of education, and I got several offers from strangers to host my stay.  Each one was kind, generous, and unique.  However, one was on the bus route I used to get to the Yoga Center where the training was taking place, and I was intrigued.  A family of four from the French Alps staying in Princeton for a couple of years, and their house was 50 meters from my bus stop.  At the end of the weekend with them, my life had been forever changed.