Curt Beckmann

One of the earlier homework assignments in David Kessler's excellent Grief Educator Training is to create your own Loss Inventory. It is a very helpful exercise for taking a step back and looking both at how loss shows up in our lives, as well as how we have navigated loss in the past. My decision to take the training was in an interesting context. My brother had died by suicide about 6 months earlier. That was not the reason I was most conscious of, however. Before my brother's passing,...

This Zen-inspired phrase captures the moment. Today on the cusp of certification from my yearlong NVW program, I take this Labor Day dive, energetically my first foray in a new direction as a life and business coach. The act awakens the spirit like a backpacker’s rinse in a brisk mountain lake. Memories of prior plunges bubble to the surface, belying the truth that this will be entirely its own adventure. The rich and challenging final session, in-person with all of the inspiring members of...