by Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Mar 3, 2021 | Communication, Conflict Coaching, Leadership, Race Relations
I was meeting with a client and his two team members on Zoom. I start every client meeting with breathing, and this one was no different. Right before I started setting us up to do our breathing, I asked if one of the team members was going to her car because she had...
by Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Feb 24, 2021 | Apologies, Communication, Inner Conflicts
There’s an ugliness in me and I am convinced it is in all of us whether we have taken the time to discover or acknowledge it or not. That ugliness is when someone does something wrong to me, my first instinct, is often to punish in some way. I’ve been aware of this...
by Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Feb 17, 2021 | Communication, Conflict Coaching, Inner Conflicts, Leadership, Race Relations
Since the start of the new year, there has been this feeling floating out there in the anti-racist work communities that I am a part of, also ones that I just observe. It’s an anticipation that started with whispers and has now built into a loud roar. The cumulative...
by Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Feb 10, 2021 | Communication, Leadership
What does it mean to belong? Belonging is an emotional journey, not just a definition. When you belong, you truly feel it and when you don’t, the feeling becomes an ache. If belonging were a song for me, it would be that one line from the Cheers TV show theme song....
by Lynne Maureen Hurdle | Feb 3, 2021 | LGBTQIA, Race Relations
A friend of mine who is Chinese American has been posting on Facebook for the last week. He has been pouring out his grief over a friend who was also an Icon in the Asian American community. Corky Lee was a Chinese American journalistic photographer particularly known...