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		<title>Yes, and…The one word story icebreaker</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liz Williams]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The teacher was late to the week-long clown workshop.  10 mins passed before one of the other students stood up and announced that our instructor had asked her to start class if he was late.  “There are two rules of improv:  the first is to always say ‘yes, and.’  No matter what a fellow improviser [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Vagus Nerve Reset</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liz Williams]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2022 07:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Vagus Nerve Reset I gave a quick run-down of the Vagus Nerve Reset from Stanley Rosenberg&#8217;s book Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve in a post about staying out of emergency mode. I&#8217;ve gotten questions about how to get the most out of it, so I thought I&#8217;d give the vagus nerve [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Out beyond ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liz Williams]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 01:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[“Out beyond ideas of right-doing and wrong-doing&#8230; …there’s a field.  I’ll meet you there.”  Maybe you know this quote from Rumi, the mystical Sufi poet whose popularity continues unabated centuries after his death.  It has so much to teach us about collaboration, especially the kind we must find in ourselves before we can connect with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Art of the Pause</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liz Williams]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 01:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Art of the Pause 2.5 minute read In every workshop it was the same:  Some could incorporate the skills immediately. Some could not, no matter how hard they tried.   Then, weeks after the class, I’d get an email like this:  “OMG, Liz – it WORKED!  I paused and then I (insert skill here) and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Open Focus Results #1:  High Shoulders with Pain</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liz Williams]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2022 01:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As a certified Open Focus coach (COFC), I&#8217;m prevented from making claims for open focus sessions.  I&#8217;m not licensed to treat anything, and can&#8217;t claim to have done so.  Which is fine with me.  Instead, I will share what I see and hear from the people I work with.  Like today&#8217;s session. An orchestral musician [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Beyond Resilience &#8211; Staying Out of Emergency Mode</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liz Williams]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2021 23:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Possibly you&#8217;re one of the people who are happily sailing through the toxic sludge of Covid pandemic and ill political winds that continue to blow. If so, I commend you. I am not one of those people.  The last several years took me down to my studs.  Not that all that time I spent stretched [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Protected: Open Focus Friday Comments</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liz Williams]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2021 21:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>This Uncertainty Won&#8217;t Last Forever &#8211; In drawings.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liz Williams]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2020 20:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[When I wrote about Transition, the predictable psycho-emotional response to change, I didn&#8217;t expect to see it come alive in so many people.  Although it was only two weeks ago, it seems a lifetime.   Friends and acquaintances are starting to wonder aloud if they will ever feel creative again, or relaxed, or like themselves.  &#8220;Are [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Leading in a Crisis with Resolve *and* Kindness</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liz Williams]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2020 18:52:16 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[congruent]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The corona virus crisis is showing us what leadership can look like and women the world over are rocking it.  Jacinda Ardern, the Prime Minister of New Zealand has been giving us a master class.   _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ Reading Time: 2.5 minutes (although if you click on the links, you might get a coffee and settle in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Hold on tight! Transition Curve Ahead</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Liz Williams]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2020 00:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Every change sets off a transition process.  This is why you&#8217;re having all these feelings during this unprecedented time in history.  Although our understanding about this new corona virus is changing daily, the way we respond to change &#8211; the transition process &#8211; is well-understood,  predictable, and you&#8217;ve been through it before.  You know [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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