Lately I’ve been getting quite a few questions about AI… 

Not from skeptics, but from people like you, who may be sitting with the very big decision to join Wayfinder Coach Training. People who identify as Wayfinders and care deeply about helping others, but who may be wondering whether human coaching still has a place in the world that’s emerging.

It’s certainly a reasonable concern. The world is handing more and more of our interactions over to algorithms, chatbots, and endlessly responsive, always‑on digital assistants.

And yet, after more than twenty years of coaching and training coaches, what I’m seeing is that [...]

I promised to share with you the first and, I believe, most powerful of the Wayfinding compasses: something I call the Body Compass. 

From early childhood, you’ve been taught to override signals from your body in order to cooperate with other people: sit quietly and listen when you want to squirm, pretend you’re fine when you have a headache, get up when the alarm rings even if you’re still exhausted.

None of this is universally bad—it all helps us work together in groups—but it has one outcome that’s not only problematic, but catastrophic. It makes most people turn off the signals [...]

If you’ve been following my work for a while, you’ve heard me talk about “wayfinding.”

I borrowed that word from an anthropologist, who used it to describe the ancient Pacific Islanders. These incredible voyagers crossed thousands of miles of open sea without maps or compasses, guided by individuals whose ability to “read” ocean currents, winds, stars, and sea life gave them almost superhuman navigational skill. 

Wayfinding, as I use the word, is that same art, applied to the landscape of our modern lives. Wayfinders are able to rely on their own inner wisdom, rather than what they’ve been taught by modern [...]

I’m falling apart.

This has always been the case, but I’ve noticed it more lately because my family is moving. Our possessions, fresh out of cardboard boxes, are a random scatter of stuff. It’s as if our former home has dissolved.

The house we’re moving into is also dissolving. It’s old; we’ve been told that some of the foundation stones were dragged here by horses. Since then, maintenance has been…patchy. The roof, insulation, heating, and innumerable other things are in various stages of dissolution.

“Well,” I thought yesterday after moving approximately four billion heavy boxes, “at least all this work will make [...]