Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops Quotes

“When we see things as they are, we become aware of our inherent connectedness, what Thich Nhat Hanh calls interbeing.”
― Ken Nelson, Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops: Creating the Conditions for Transformation in Your Groups, Trainings, and Retreats

“When you know how to harness the neuroplasticity of your brain in that moment, you can alter the pattern.”
― Ken Nelson, Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops: Creating the Conditions for Transformation in Your Groups, Trainings, and Retreats

“Much mental and therefore neural activity flows through the brain like ripples on a river, with no lasting effects on its channel. But intense, prolonged, or repeated mental/neural activity—especially if it is conscious—will leave an enduring imprint in neural structure, like a surging current reshaping a riverbed. —”
― Ken Nelson, Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops: Creating the Conditions for Transformation in Your Groups, Trainings, and Retreats

“I become myself. It's taken
Time, many years and places;
I have been dissolved and shaken,
Worn other people's faces . . . —May Sarton”
― Ken Nelson, Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops: Creating the Conditions for Transformation in Your Groups, Trainings, and Retreats

“My independence has served me, but it has also hardened me. I am seeking balance.”
― Ken Nelson, Designing & Leading Life-Changing Workshops: Creating the Conditions for Transformation in Your Groups, Trainings, and Retreats