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Embracing the Energy of Winter
This is the second in a two post series on embracing the gifts of winter’s energy. You’ll find part 1 here . It's winter. I've been...

Tasha Harmon
Jan 272 min read
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Keeping Quiet
You may have noticed that I have not written a blog post in almost a year. This past 14 months has been filled with family needs, and...

Tasha Harmon
Jan 103 min read
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How Does Change Happen?
“Two questions have been with me most of my life: How do people change? How do systems change.” These words open the introduction of...

Tasha Harmon
Apr 22, 20244 min read
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Survival of the Nurtured
These last couple of months have been overwhelming, on so many levels. For me that overwhelm has included the death of my father (and all...

Tasha Harmon
Mar 18, 20245 min read
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He Asked If I Needed Help – Why Did I React So Defensively?
I am a super competent person. Or at least, I am super attached to my sense of myself as a super competent person. I have always known I...

Tasha Harmon
Jan 18, 20243 min read
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What Are You Going to Steer By This Year?
My last two weeks of December have been… not at all what I expected. My elderly parents came down with COVID right before Christmas, and...

Tasha Harmon
Jan 2, 20243 min read
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My Wish for All of Us, on the Winter Solstice
This is the Winter Solstice – the longest night of the year. For me, it’s a time for reflection, for sitting with and in the darkness, in...

Tasha Harmon
Dec 21, 20232 min read
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Accepting the Invitations of the Season
Over the last few weeks, as the days have gotten shorter and shorter and shorter, with darkness arriving by 4:30 now here at 45.5152° N,...

Tasha Harmon
Dec 10, 20231 min read
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When using consensus can work against equitable participation and real collaboration
I’ve been helping groups build their capacity for participatory decision-making for decades now. When I started that work, and, indeed,...

Tasha Harmon
Nov 29, 20233 min read
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You Don't Have to Rush to Catch the Stillness Train
In my last blog post, I wrote about softening into change. For me, stillness is often a pathway to softening. Creating a pause can create...

Tasha Harmon
Nov 27, 20232 min read
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Softening Into Change
I wrote this poem in November of 2003, in Syracuse NY, where I was teaching at a national conference. It was a time in my life when I...

Tasha Harmon
Oct 31, 20233 min read
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Sometimes, Getting It All Done is Not the Important Thing
My parents are in their late 80s, and my mother is descending into dementia. It’s been a slow fall, over more than a decade now, but it’s...

Tasha Harmon
Oct 31, 20233 min read
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What Are You Growing Out Of?
My partner and I were talking, years ago, with my brother, his wife, and their then almost 6-year-old son. The four of us adults were...

Tasha Harmon
Oct 23, 20232 min read
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Focusing on What’s Needed
When we are navigating difficult and demanding situations (making tough decisions, managing big transitions, etc.), it is helpful to...

Tasha Harmon
Oct 9, 20232 min read
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The Power of the Pause in Transitions
Image of leaf-covered tree branches reaching down toward a pool of blue water, the shadow of the branches visible in the water. A sliver...

Tasha Harmon
Sep 25, 20233 min read
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There are reasons we never feel like we are doing or being “enough.”
In this recent post, I talked about shifting from the “Am I (doing/being) enough?” framework to a framework of “Is what I’m doing...

Tasha Harmon
Sep 11, 20232 min read
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