Rooted in tradition. Written for now.
Ancestral Ways explores what happens when ancestral wisdom meets the modern workplace.
Here you’ll find essays on traditional healing, cultural intelligence, leadership, burnout, and the deeper work of building cultures that heal rather than harm.
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Healing the Way We Work
Read more: Healing the Way We WorkThere is a version of this post where I introduce myself, list my credentials, and explain in professional language what I plan to write about here. I am going to skip that version. You can find the bio on the About page. What I want to say first is simpler: I started this site because…
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When Three Days Isn’t Enough
Read more: When Three Days Isn’t EnoughWe need to talk about something most HR handbooks get completely wrong. Three days. That’s the standard bereavement leave most companies offer for the death of an immediate family member. Three days to absorb the loss, handle arrangements, travel if needed, sit with family, and return to your desk ready to produce. Three days. My…
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La Cultura Cura Does Not Mean What You Think It Means
Read more: La Cultura Cura Does Not Mean What You Think It MeansSomeone put it on a slide deck recently. La cultura cura. Culture heals. It was in a sans-serif font, centered, inside a colorful box, sandwiched between a diversity statistic and a call to action about employee resource groups. I do not know who made that slide. But I know they did not learn that phrase…
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