Sessions at Sunrise

JD has been a raving fan of ambient music as a listener for 38 years of his life. Ambient music is like a sound current from which we open new channels of listening, creativity, and seeing possibilities.

JD reflects upon a poem he wrote for one of his coaching clients, a father who was opening his eyes to gifts in his adult son that reflected how much he'd put into his son, in more good ways, more amazing ways that he noticed before.

JD talks about leadership, and how we continuously access a higher quality of expression in any moment. We can operate by different orientations to see and sense current reality, and use a generative listening to sense and act from an emerging future possibility, not as a doer, but as a co-creator with forces moving in us that we pretend to understand.

JD shares a new way of defining integrity, as a way to describe the quality of tolerance we give ambiguity and mystery to see more clearly what is really going on.

JD shares his past experiences with feeling loved for the first time growing up by special soul. His experience signifies how love is letting another be a legitimate other, safe to be themselves, authentic and liberated.

JD shares his poem about the Apricot, with a hard pit in the middle as one's personal gift, and a fuzzy outside. The poem symbolizes the quality of the soul that is conserved and remains unchanged, and the fuzzy outside is the soft layer that meets whatever arises.

JD reflects on a funny fumble in the kitchen when chocolate was put on top of his eggs by mistake. Mistakes are some of the greatest moments of learning to be human, loving and forgiving, with a soft edge.

JD shares his poem inspired by his adventures in Baja California, climbing a 7,000 foot volcano near San Ignacio. He shares the relationship between intention and attention, to bring for his movements toward reaching the top and coming back down.

JD shares his encounters with the creative process, in taking actions in service to outcomes that aren't pleasant, wanted, or feel good. As he puts on his tennis shoes, he brings outward the conversation in himself to compromise his goal and procrastinate his actions.

JD shares his experience of the motion picture "The Darkest Hour" when Churchill opens his heart during a powerful scene, taking collective leadership to bring forth a new conversation that gives rise to community and change.

JD shares the significance of morning reflection, intentional stillness, and how this quality of being is the place from which everything arising in the mystery of the day is made contact.

JD shares a special bedtime talk with his daughter Hannah about the purple dragon in the closet. Rather than parenting with judgement, force, and domination, he finds his attention resting in a more loving awareness, a place from which his heart is open and listening, to be where the other person is, with empathy and respect.

JD shares his special poem about losing his best friend to suicide. The poem emphasizes what is possible in keeping the person in your heart, and sharing experiences with them.

JD described the one thing that is forbidden. If you're making decisions without the awareness of your thoughts, emotions, and intuition, self-inflicted complexity arises from downloading automatic thoughts as judgement. This is like a parasite.