The Numina Blog

When we take on a new client, we test for 12 essential human skills. One of these is the ability to enter the other’s reality. Successful people can see and feel what the world looks like through another person’s eyes. Election times, for example, highlight how...

Success in any creative endeavor depends on trust. If your colleagues trust you, they will give in ways they didn't know were possible. If banks and investors trust you, they will finance your projects. In deep personal work, if a client trusts you, he or she will see...

There’s a lot of generic advice that circulates around becoming a strong leader: hire people smarter than you are, read autobiographies from major CEO’s, wake up at 5 am. While these can all help advance your skills as a leader, they aren’t particularly...

People grow most when they hold their life to date as a thing of beauty. We get stuck in past versions of ourselves by clinging to mistakes we regret and ruing opportunities we missed. In the self-guided transformation retreat we have been developing, we include a...

We have been developing a transformation retreat that people can do in their own space. Typically, when a person goes on a retreat—whether facilitated in person or self-guided—they transition into the next chapter of their lives. So it is important to know how we get...