Organizational Change

He Asked If I Needed Help – Why Did I React So Defensively?

Tasha Harmon

Jan 18
3 min

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...

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Tasha Harmon

Dec 10, 2023
1 min

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,...

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When using consensus can work against equitable participation and real collaboration

Tasha Harmon

Nov 29, 2023
3 min

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,...

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Tasha Harmon

Oct 31, 2023
3 min

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...

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Sometimes, Getting It All Done is Not the Important Thing

Tasha Harmon

Oct 31, 2023
3 min

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...

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Tasha Harmon

Oct 23, 2023
2 min

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...

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Tasha Harmon

Oct 9, 2023
2 min

Focusing on What’s Needed

When we are navigating difficult and demanding situations (making tough decisions, managing big transitions, etc.), it is helpful to...

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Tasha Harmon

Sep 25, 2023
3 min

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...

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There are reasons we never feel like we are doing or being “enough.”

Tasha Harmon

Sep 11, 2023
2 min

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...

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Tasha Harmon

Aug 22, 2023
2 min

“Enough” is the Wrong Measuring Stick

“It feels like I can’t ever do enough.” “I wish I felt like that was enough.” “We can never do enough to meet the need.” I hear this, and...

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Tasha Harmon

Aug 17, 2023
2 min

Reaching for Brave, Not Safe

As a facilitator and coach, I have used the term "safe space" for years to describe what we are trying to create in meetings and...

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Tasha Harmon

Aug 7, 2023
2 min

Transforming "Why" to "What"

Often, when we are feeling stuck and frustrated, we are asking ourselves, or our colleagues or friends, "why" questions: Why is this so...

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Is It Just Me, Or Is It a Structure Problem?

Tasha Harmon

Jul 31, 2023
8 min

Is It Just Me, Or Is It a Structure Problem?

This is not likely a question you find yourself asking very often, but I’ve heard it come up a lot in both my coaching and organizational...

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