Helen House, one of my CTI Faculty colleagues is currently in the ICU in a Michigan hospital suffering from pneumonia. Whenever one of the CTI Staff, Faculty or any of our loved ones is sick we all send prayers and good wishes for their quick recovery. Yesterday, two of our other colleagues decided to turbo-charge these prayers by suggesting that we all pray together at 10 AM PST for a half hour. Immediately, faculty from all over the globe emailed and said that they would participate in the prayer circle at the same time. We just received the good news that Helen’s health is improving specifically after this infusion of loving and healing energy that we offered together this morning. Prayer works! Read the rest of this entry
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Posted March 5th, 2011 by Judith Cohen, MCC, CPCC
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Posted March 1st, 2011 by Judith Cohen, MCC, CPCC
And so is the Queen of Paradox! Ironically, accepting my feeling that I had nothing to say prompted me to restart my blog. I got coached this morning about wanting to start posting on this blog again but at the beginning of the coaching session, I didn’t have much hope of writing anything today. However, as always, coaching works and I now feel inspired to share with you the fruit of my coaching session. My big aha! for the day was that accepting what is true and honoring my experience can lead to inspiration even if what is true feels the opposite of inspiring! Read the rest of this entry
Posted August 23rd, 2009 by Judith Cohen, MCC, CPCC
For those of you who have not yet seen Albert Nerenberg’s light-hearted documentary, Stupidity, I recommend it as food for thought. Although parts of the movie are comic, the impact of human stupidity is far from humorous. From people’s inability to define stupidity to our global leaders inability to effectively employ antidotes to global warming and war, we constantly reap the painful and often cataclysmic effects of human stupidity.
Nerenberg is interested in the study of stupidity and its causes so that we may choose another route and pursue wisdom instead. For all the studies on intelligence and wisdom, according to Nerenberg the study of stupidity is quite paltry in comparison. Is stupidity so stupefying that even the best minds find it beyond their capability to study? Or are we so arrogant as to consider human stupidity unworthy of our serious study? Either way, we have proven over the millennia that human stupidity is recurrent and seemingly boundless. It is neither a laughing matter nor is “Stupid!” merely an epithet to hurl at someone with whom we disagree. I’m sure that each one of us can admirably demonstrate stupidity in our own lives. Read the rest of this entry
Posted August 17th, 2009 by Judith Cohen, MCC, CPCC
One second may be the only the barrier you face between life and death. As I was surfing the web recently, I came across a powerful blog called One Second written by Alison, a woman widowed by a drunk driver. She is the mother of three daughters and she is on a mission to raise safe driving awareness. It only takes one second to make a choice that will lead to safety or recklessness. In her One Second Installations, she engages participants in a way that challenges them to think new ideas and to create momentary experiences that stick with them to encourage safe driving.
Her latest blog post tells about a recent One Second Installation. She and her crew brought a steel hospital table and a body bag to the Surf Club one evening. At the Surf Club she offered people the opportunity to be zipped into the body bag by their friends. Although everyone was interested, nobody volunteered. So she waited. Two hours later after the crowd had some drinks at the bar people started to volunteer. There was nervous laughter as people repeatedly made sure that their friends would unzip them after a second in the bag. An hour later, fortified by even more alcohol, people were having a good time being zipped in the bag and then unzipped. Alison was afraid that the point of the exercise was being lost. This was not supposed to be a fun event. Rather it was supposed to be a wake up call about 1) what it feels like to be in a body bag 2) trusting one’s friends 3) consciously making choices. Read the rest of this entry
Posted August 11th, 2009 by Judith Cohen, MCC, CPCC
This weekend the members of the class of 1969 at John F. Kennedy High School in Plainview, NY got together for our 40th reunion. Unfortunately, I was not there and judging from the pictures I missed a wonderful event. I chose not to go for several reasons. However, the primary reason was that I was just back in NYC in June and I will have to go back again this fall. I felt that three trips back east in such a short period of time was too much. As it turned out, I got to see several people here on the west coast before they left for NY. I told them to take lots of pictures which they then generously posted on facebook.
My dear friend Jan whom I’ve written about in prior entries here and here visited me this past weekend. We met during our freshman year of college and have been close friends ever since. In 1971, Jan transferred to another college for the remainder of her education. I frequently visited her there and became friends with many of her new friends. One woman in particular named Deb was especially fun to be with and very smart. I would spend time with her whenever I came to visit Jan. Although we have kept up with each others’ lives through Jan, I hadn’t seen Deb in probably thirty years. Coincidentally, Deb ended up being in town at the same time as Jan and the three of us had a reunion this past weekend. Read the rest of this entry