Last Friday marked one year of activity for the Lawrenceville Shut Up & Write writing group I co-host. I am using this special occasion to start a new routine: sharing my writing. You likely spent days and months wondering, “Why am I not getting any of them promised Ethics Nuggets I signed up for?” Well, that is about to change, thanks to this four-syllable, one-hour-a-week habit I picked up a year ago.I used to write for a living, in Hebrew. When I found myself in New York City, called to...
16 days ago • 1 min read
What is Ethics Coaching?Glad you asked!To answer that, let’s start by defining “ethics.”While there are many definitions, for the purpose of our work, we define ethics as values in action.To describe values, we use the phrase “This I Believe.”Ethics, in a phrase, is “This We Practice.”Ethics coaching supports the journey from “This I Believe” to “This We Practice”: from belief to practice AND from I to WE. We see ethics as a social contract.To put it together:Ethics is a social contract based...
16 days ago • 1 min read
Have you ever been blindsided by things not going your way? Doing everything in alignment with your values, in flow with it all, flying high and fast - into a brick wall? That happened to me when I ran for a seat on the board of Zebras Unite. There were two of us competing. The vote was decisive. It wasn’t even close. I had no idea how emotionally crushing the defeat would be. Rather than shrugging it off (“huh, this sucks”) and moving on, shortly after receiving the news I was walking my...
over 1 year ago • 3 min read
The scale of casualties is horrifying.The seemingly gleeful sadism of a thousand murders is unfathomable.The reality it evokes is tragic.Tragic in the sense of an impending, inevitable catastrophe.It makes sense that faced with such a traumatic and vicious offensive, the Israeli public not just expects, it needs to see a fierce, decisive, and far-reaching response. Accused of the negligence that made an attack on this scale possible, Israeli leaders are pressed to prove they can and will keep...
over 1 year ago • 1 min read
I’d like to recognize and commemorate a teacher who changed my life.A pioneering filmmaker, artist, and activist instrumental in defining the Feminist Art Movement, Susan Kleckner was my first teacher in New York City.I took her class “A Roll A Day” at the International Center of Photography (ICP) a couple of months after arriving in New York. I was a writer at the time. The best way to experience the city was to make something in it, and writing in Hebrew was not ideal for immersing myself...
over 1 year ago • 2 min read
In What is Ethics Coaching? Part I we defined “ethics”. Now, let’s talk about what we mean by “coaching”, what is it, and what it looks like.Or perhaps we should start with what ethics coaching isn’t.It is not TherapyWhile customers named one of our offerings “Entrepreneur Therapy”, coaching is not a mental health service. It is not intended nor equipped to heal or unpack emotional injury or trauma. While coaching conversation may involve bringing up the past and acknowledging trauma, it is...
over 1 year ago • 2 min read
For the past year and a half, as a society, we have been pretending that the pandemic never happened. It makes perfect sense. We NEEDED to. After a couple of difficult, surreal years, we just needed to feel everything is normal again. And so we did.I apprehensively shared this observation with a couple of friends that are still impacted by the pandemic, people whose daily experience is far from normal, and may never be the same. I was somewhat surprised that they agreed emphatically. In their...
over 1 year ago • 2 min read