This is our final Peace Overtures Radio episode for season 3 as we complete our discussion on STEWARDSHIP. In this episode called: Discover Your Own Path To Stewardship, we return to our favorite series on the SUNDANCE channel called Iconoclasts: Isabella Rossellini and Dean Kamen. Both Rossellini and Kamen are perfect examples of leaders who discovered their own path to Stewardship. As we mentioned in last week’s show, If we’re to discover new solutions to the problems we … [Read more...]
It’s Time To Rediscover Stewardship
We’re glad you can join us on our season long discussion of our Five Dimensions of Well-Being. Our journey has taken us to several Alignment Films that cover the following dimensions of well-being HEALTH, FOOD, ENVIRONMENT, and last week we completed a series around WORK LIFE. We shift this week to our fifth and final dimension of STEWARDSHIP with this episode called: It’s Time to Rediscover Stewardship. To help us get started lets first look at the word STEWARDSHIP. Author and … [Read more...]
How To Change Your Definition of Success
For most of us our jobs are our lives. Then when something changes either in the position we hold, the company is sold, or we’re downsized in a re-organization - our self worth gets downsized too. It’s the same when we’re successful and receiving accolades, promotions, and big bonuses. We think it’s an accurate reflection of our self-worth. As a result, true contentment remains fleeting or even elusive. We included Fun With Dick and Jane to assist with the beliefs around the definition … [Read more...]
How To Leverage Your Work-Life
Sue-Anne and David continue their Peace Overtures Radio series with this episode around the Work Life Dimension of Well Being with the featured Alignment Film: After The Wedding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZzxmZuOvKI After The Wedding begins with Jacob Petersen who has dedicated his life to helping street children in India. When the orphanage he heads is threatened by closure, he receives an unusual offer. A wealthy and powerful Danish businessman, named Jørgen, offers him a donation … [Read more...]
Did Work Steal Your Soul?
Recently I’ve been reading articles that say there’s no such thing as work-life balance anymore. In fact, what’s reported as optimal is a type of mashing of the two. So there’s a flow back and forth between work and the needs at home. That’s supposed to be the best we can expect from our modern style of work life. While in theory it sounds like it might work, I’m not convinced that it is. Especially when you consider Americans are known workaholics and many don’t take all their … [Read more...]
There’s No Stopping This Change
This week Sue-Anne and David complete their discussion around the ENVIRONMENT dimension with this episode called: There’s No Stopping This Change. In this Peace Overtures Radio episode, they’ve chosen The Lego Movie as the Alignment Process film. The Lego Movie was released in 2014. It’s a computer animated film about an ordinary Lego construction worker, named Emmet Brickowski, thought to be the prophesied ‘Special’. Emmet is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil tyrant named Lord … [Read more...]
Returning Balance To Life
This week we continue our season long theme: The Five Dimensions of Well-Being, with another Alignment Process film around the ENVIRONMENT dimension. This episode is called: Returning Balance To Life The featured Alignment Film is Avatar the blockbuster film from James Cameron. Avatar is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are colonizing Pandora, a lush habitable moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system to mine the mineral unobtanium. The expansion of the mining … [Read more...]
The Power of Co-Creation
This week we continue our Five Dimensions of Well-Being Series with another Alignment Session around the ENVIRONMENT dimension. The featured Alignment Process film is Planetary. PLANETARY explores our interconnected nature and the roots of our current climate change crisis, reframing it as a fundamental problem with the way we see the world and our place within it. The Planetary film makers travelled the world for two years to gather the stunning footage and intimate interviews from … [Read more...]
Keeping Up With Climate Change
Peace Overtures Radio We're continuing our radio series: Five Dimensions of Well-Being with the focus this week on the ENVIRONMENT. The featured Alignment Movie is: An Inconvenient Truth. An Inconvenient Truth is a 2006 documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim about former United States Vice President Al Gore’s campaign to educate citizens about global warming via a comprehensive slide show that, by his own estimate made in the film, he has given more than a thousand … [Read more...]
Is FOOD Driving Your Life?
This week’s Peace Overtures Radio episode is called: Is FOOD Driving Your Life and our Alignment Film is Super Size Me. Super Size Me is a 2004 American documentary film directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock. The film begins with some staggering statistics about the obesity problems in the U.S. - the world’s most obese nation. According to Spurlock, over 60% of us are overweight - some 100 million people. He says obesity is now second only to cigarette smoking as a major cause … [Read more...]