by Jeffrey Hollender | Aug 7, 2007
Music drifts into our back yard from the benefit party almost one mile away and it’s only 5:00 pm. This is the land of benefits; almost every Democratic candidate for President comes to the Hamptons in the summer to raise money. Last night we attended two parties, to...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jun 1, 2007
I just finished reading Paul Hawken’s new book “Blessed Unrest.” It is a beautifully written, extensively researched, deeply thoughtful but in the end-unsatisfying read. While Hawken talks convincing about the conversion of the environmental/sustainability movement...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Apr 1, 2007
I spent two days this week doing something I haven’t done for five if not ten years – going to a retreat to explore who I want to be in the next iteration of my life. The retreat was led by Peter Senge and the Shamballa Institute outside Boston on bright, crisp sunny...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Feb 1, 2007
New Delhi – Sunday February 18, 2007 One wonders if there is anything to say that has not been said before. This is a city of extreme contrasts drawn together by sights and smells that all can enjoy and none can avoid. A delicate smoke fills the air, coloring the sky...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Nov 1, 2006
Reflections on Growing to the Seventh Generation Community Sometimes I forget that my job is more about growing my self than growing others. It is – or at least seems easier to grow others than to grow me. I usually have a point of view about who you need to be or...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Sep 1, 2006
The remnants of a hurricane blow through northern New England leaving the sky cloudy and the ground damp. The temperature isn’t quite cool enough for a bath but I take several anyway to escape to that clearly defined warm space. The endless possibility leaves me at a...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Aug 5, 2006
“One of the most important roles we can play individually or collectively is to create an opening, or to ‘listen’ to the implicate order unfolding, and then to create dreams, visions, and stories that we sense at our center want to happen…” Synchronicity, The...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Aug 3, 2006
My brother Peter would have turned 50 today. There would have been a huge party, around the swimming pool of a rented house near the beach. Loud music, beautiful people, too much to drink. But he didn’t quite make it to 44. He lived his whole life in half the amount...
by Jeffrey Hollender | Jul 6, 2006
“presencing constitutes a third type of seeing, beyond seeing external reality and beyond seeing from within the living whole. It is seeing from within the source from which the future whole is emerging, peering back at the present from the future. In these moments,...
