Lyedie Geer

09/10/2025

Responding to this question, if it makes any sense to you, may give you insight into your deepest longings. . .

08/21/2025

I'm honored to be among the seedkeepers for this remarkable book by Helen Whybrow . . .

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08/07/2025

"Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant." — Maya Angelou

Looking at how the essential elements on this beautiful planet can help us respond to these tumultuous times. This is the final in a series on visiting the elements. The last post explored Fire; today we’ll be visiting Earth.

In these times that seem senseless in so many ways, the element of Earth gives me faith. Today, I'm going to muse on the Earth element and share a few practices that call in the Earth element.

Earth is the beautiful planet that is our home. Earth elements include minerals, stone, humus. Earth gives us a sense of ground. It is also the living layer of soil that supports us so beautifully by giving rise to the greening, the trees, and plant life. Earth's magnetic field orients how we move and experience up and down, as well as forward and backward.

In these times that seem senseless in so many ways, the element of Earth gives me faith.

07/18/2025

Looking at how the essential elements on this beautiful planet can help us respond to these tumultuous times.

Perhaps humanity's earliest technological advance was the ability to harness the power of Fire. Stealing the element of Fire for the benefit of humanity is a narrative found across cultures, from Prometheus in Greek mythology to Māui in Polynesian stories. In Cherokee myth, Grandmother Spider snuck into the land of Light and took some Fire away in her net. Coyote, Beaver, Dog, Rabbit, Crow, and Possum are all credited with stealing Fire and bringing it to humans.

All of these stories hold a deep respect for the power of Fire — There is heroic sacrifice and divine punishment. In each, the transformative power of Fire advances human progress and brings unintended consequences.

Fire illuminates, warms, burns, destroys and gives life.

06/05/2025

The Longings Project is accepting applications for the Bluebird Award for a couple more weeks. Learn more about the Bluebird Award and please forward this message to women you know who may benefit from this offering of three months of coaching at no cost. Applications are open until June 20th . . .

https://thelongingsproject.com/offerings/bluebird-award

06/03/2025

Looking at how the essential elements on this beautiful planet can help us respond to these tumultuous times. This is the second in a series on visiting the elements. The last post explored Water; today we’ll be visiting Air.

Where water offers us moisture and connection, Air provides us with oxygen and spaciousness.

Being composed of invisible gases, Air reveals itself through movement. It breezes and blows. Winds prevail, gust, and subside. Air, like water, is mutable. Where water responds to gravity, Air responds to differentials in pressure and temperature—moving through updrafts and downdrafts. Water is dense. Air is nebulous. Air is hard to define; it is, after all, the Air we breathe. Unseen, ever-present, Air is always felt by its presence or absence.

Let's look at Air as the substance we breathe, the mysterious element that wraps around our beautiful planet, and as the element that gives us a felt sense of spaciousness.

Where water offers us moisture and connection, Air provides us with oxygen and spaciousness.

05/22/2025

What do we do now?

In the midst of this gorgeous ruckus, I have been quiet. Listening for how to respond instead of react. I’ve been feeling myself wanting to find and then offer some crystalline drop of wisdom, and I’ve been coming up short. I’m humbled by the truth of not knowing. I’m in awe of the power of the pause, and yet it is difficult to withstand the desire to know in the face of such profound uncertainty.

The futurist Jamais Cascio has developed a term for what I call the gorgeous ruckus. He calls what we are all currently experiencing, BANI. Brittle, Anxiety producing, Non-linear and Incomprehensible. This term, born out of his desire to capture how it feels to be experiencing this chaotic world, is helpful though sobering. In such chaos the mind twirls, the heart closes, and intention that inspires active hope and creativity loses touch with its North Star.

I am alongside entrepreneurs and leaders as they navigate the shattering of norms and structures that is occurring in our world. As Jamais Cascio points out, we are trying to find options when there are no “good” options, no clear path forward. Collectively, we’ve been given everything we need on this beautiful planet — The task is to learn to thrive and to love each other well. We humans continue to struggle with doing the right thing, even when we know what that is and have the technology to accomplish it. My sense is we are not going find a way forward; we need to forge it. I believe we must all attend to the future and become good ancestors.

One thing is certain— even how we approach change has to change! I tend to look for underlying essentials to find leverage points. Fundamental patterns and archetypes inform my methodology, along with many business and change models. So, over the next few weeks I’m going to suggest that we visit the Elements of Nature — Water, Air, Earth and Fire — to find our most resourceful responses.

Visit the Blue Chair Blog to read more about practices to connect with Water’s resources . . .

05/22/2025

The Longings Project is once again accepting applications for the Bluebird Award. I’m pleased to be able to continue this offering of three months of coaching at no cost to two women a year.

Learn more about the Bluebird Award at the link in bio and please share with women you know who may benefit from some wind under their wings. Applications are open until June 20th . . .

02/17/2025

Happy birthday dear Suzy! May this next
trip around the sun be surprisingly wonderful! 🎈✨🤸🏻‍♀️✨

02/16/2025

Reflections from Plum Village on healing our world's pain

12/23/2024

12/21/2024

As this year turns into the next one, I send you warm and light-filled greetings. Follow the link below to receive the gift of my annual reflection and visioning practice.

In January, I’ll be joining with a group of colleagues to explore the notion of hope beyond hope. We’ll be exploring this rich gnarly territory, not pretty-pretty-syrupy-hope, but the kind of hope that meets these potent times. I’m looking forward to feeling the comradeship of others wrestling with a hope that is fit for now — and to sharing with you what I glean.

Warmly, Lyedie

And a poem about hope by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

How Can We Not Try to Save It

Only this world—
not some unknown chance
of life somewhere else,
only this here, this life,
this improbable chance to be steward of meadow
and desert, mountain and cliff,
this chance to inhabit this
acre, this continent, this planet,
to know this frozen pond,
this slender stream, this dried grass,
this herd of mule deer, this darkness
that comes when our planet spins,
this light that arrives
on darkness’s edge.
Only this chance to sing
of this world, this disappearing
world, this world of emergence,
this world with its stars
and its bones, its prickles
and petals, its sweetness
and ache, this world
with its hopelessness
and, oh dare I say it,
its hope.

photo credit: Elizabeth Ungerleider

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