Tough Rubs

Tough Rubs

Our success as a team and with donors hinges on relationships. Few things matter more than our ability to perceive what’s really going on—which is often unspoken. When we miss this, a rub can occur. Or we lose opportunity and potential. Use this tool with your foundation team to expand skill and awareness.

Sufficiency

Use these for conversation about sufficiency and ways scarcity shows up in our lives and organizations. They reach below the surface into deeper patterns that go beyond money. You may want to use these cards with your team, donors, or clinical partners—in organizational communication pieces, leave-behinds, wrapped packets at an event, etc.

Alchemical Way

These video clips stimulate higher-level imagination and wisdom about generosity. Some revolve around ways of thinking that are radically different than the norm. Others capture things we may already understand deeply but have trouble articulating. Use them for your own expansion or for foundation board meetings and internal leadership groups. For projection to a larger …

The Alchemical Foundation

How to use it: Wild success, disproportional success, rarely flows from the basic mechanics of development. The basics are essential. But they aren’t magical. They rarely unleash huge energy and movement, or return results that are vastly greater than inputs. For this we need a new set of approaches and skills. Then we enter the …

Three Triangles

These video clips stimulate higher-level imagination and wisdom about generosity. Some revolve around ways of thinking that are radically different than the norm. Others capture things we may already understand deeply but have trouble articulating. Use them for your own expansion or for foundation board meetings and internal leadership groups. For projection to a larger …

Greed and Generosity

These video clips stimulate higher-level imagination and wisdom about generosity. Some revolve around ways of thinking that are radically different than the norm. Others capture things we may already understand deeply but have trouble articulating. Use them for your own expansion or for foundation board meetings and internal leadership groups. For projection to a larger …