Listen: I have a three-fold spiritual (and mental health) practice that I like to call “wonder-wonder-wander”. It has become especially relevant to me in recent months while this pandemic winter drags on and threatens to drag me under the waves of melancholy...
Holding Space and the Fine Art of Being Wrong
by Krista dela Rosa | Jan 10, 2021 | Brave Space, Community, Complexity, Fear, Holding Space for Others, Holding Space for Yourself, Leadership, Liminal Space, Shame
Listen to Krista read the post... You might be surprised to hear this, but one of the things Heather and I are in almost constant communication about is whether we could be wrong. Are we wrong about how we have approached something? Were we wrong in the way we...
The other side of despair
by Heather Plett | Oct 7, 2020 | Brave Space, Complexity, Fear, Grief, Holding Space for Others, Holding Space for Yourself, Liminal Space
listen to me read the post... I remember that moment clearly. I was sitting in the rocking chair in the tiny living room of the first home I owned with my ex-husband, I was five months pregnant with my first daughter, and I was in complete and utter despair. I...
How does one become an “expert” in holding space? First, you fumble.
by Heather Plett | Jul 29, 2020 | Brave Space, Family, Grief, Holding Space for Others, Liminal Space
Listen to me read this post... Here we are, five years after my blog post on how to hold space went viral, and we’ve just launched the global Centre for Holding Space. It’s exciting and gratifying and also a little nerve-wracking. I couldn’t have imagined this even as...
Ten practices for the liminal space
by Heather Plett | May 15, 2020 | Holding Space for Yourself, Liminal Space
Listen to me read the post: We’re now a couple of months into The Great Pause (i.e. pandemic). We’ve baked all the bread, learned to cut our own hair, logged too many hours on Zoom, built elaborate islands on Animal Crossing, adapted to the new protocol at the grocery...
Holding liminal space
by Heather Plett | Aug 22, 2016 | Liminal Space
“I’m holding space for you.” That phrase has become more and more common in our vernacular lately, and there’s a part of me that delights in hearing it and a part of me that sometimes cringes. The part that cringes is the part that hears the cliché that that phrase...
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