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Michael Kass

An Urgent Request From The Trees

A couple years ago, I had the opportunity to stand in the center of a cathedral of Ancient Redwoods and facilitate a group of 100 or so…

3 min readMar 7, 2021

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An Urgent Request From The Trees

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Michael Kass

Why so many Zoom meetings are soul sucking cesspools of doom and what to do about it

A recent story by NPR’s Pallavi Gogoi proclaimed that CEOs want to ‘Ditch those awful Zoom calls.’ Not just any CEOs, either. Big time…

5 min readOct 26, 2020

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Why so many Zoom meetings are soul sucking cesspools of doom and what to do about it

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Michael Kass

Reconnecting with the Heart Center

Here’s something I notice: If I go more than four or five days without doing some sort of meditation, breathwork, or embodied movement…

3 min readSep 7, 2020

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Butterfly energy emanating from the heart

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Michael Kass

Disentangling from Outcome Culture

The first time I danced with a meditation practice, it disguised itself as a theater warm up.

3 min readAug 31, 2020

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Disentangling from Outcome Culture

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Michael Kass

Beyond ‘Best Practice:’ Ethical Storytelling and Cultural Transformation

I’ve been leading organizational storytelling workshops since 2012. For the first few years, I enthusiastically taught the narrative…

9 min readAug 21, 2020

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Beyond ‘Best Practice:’ Ethical Storytelling and Cultural Transformation

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Michael Kass

The Unexpected Beauty of Staying in Place

Four years ago, right around my 40th birthday, I signed up with Rites of Passage to spend three days in the desert alone, fasting. I know…

4 min readMar 27, 2020

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The Unexpected Beauty of Staying in Place

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Michael Kass

Debunking Three Fundraising Myths

My favorite part of the storytelling workshops that I offer for not-for-profit and community benefit organizations are the questions and…

5 min readJul 10, 2019

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Debunking Three Fundraising Myths

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Michael Kass

‘Sometimes you don’t even want to breathe’

‘What if you put your grandfather on the boat?’

3 min readJul 10, 2019

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‘Sometimes you don’t even want to breathe’

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Michael Kass

Lessons from the Heart of a Horse

A few weeks ago, I had the privilege of traveling to Utah with The Nomadic School of Wonder to learn from a herd of wild horses. They live…

5 min readJun 17, 2019

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Lessons from the Heart of a Horse

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Michael Kass

Toppling the Cult of Why (or: Simon Sinek Has It Wrong)

Earlier today, I attended an awards ceremony for social impact entrepreneurs in Los Angeles. Every single speaker and awardee alluded to…

5 min readFeb 1, 2019

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Toppling the Cult of Why (or: Simon Sinek Has It Wrong)

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Michael Kass

Michael Kass

I’m on a mission to help build a future for all beings by harnessing the power of the story to create change. Want to help? www.storyandspirit.org

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