I write a free newsletter called Letters to New Teachers — short reflections and encouragement for those beginning the teaching journey.If you’d like to read or subscribe: https://judithhemphill.substack.com Continue reading Substack

Imagine this. Imagine that we are indeed at a point in evolution perhaps as dramatic as that between life in water and life on land. The shift this time could be from human to conscious human, from barely aware human to one who is fully awakened. Just as a rhododendron could not imagine what it would be like to be a dog, so we can’t … Continue reading Our Job

The Old Paradigm belief was that there’s not enough to go around. Everyone can’t make it. Somebody’s going to be left out. There are way too many people. There’s not enough food. There’s not enough water. There’s not enough time. There’s not enough money. ‘There’s not enough’ generates a fear that drives us to make sure we’re not the person, or our loved ones aren’t … Continue reading Lack vs. Abundance

(7) There are two fundamental emotions, love and fear. All the positive feelings of joy, creativity, wonder, comfort, enthusiasm, you name it, all stem from a sense of loving or being loved. Hate is not the opposite of love, because it is only one of the dark emotions that all actually stem from fear. You hate someone or something because you are afraid of it … Continue reading Our 2 Foundational Emotions

A change in your beliefs is sometimes referred to as a (4) paradigm shift. A paradigm is simply the way you see things, like the widespread belief most people held at one time that the world is flat. But that belief has been disproved, and we can never go back to it again. Sometimes a revolutionary, planet-wide paradigm shift happens because of new technology, like … Continue reading 3 more Big Ideas

A wonderful author named Parker J. Palmer introduced me to the concept of Big Ideas. As I now use the term, a Big Idea is an idea that makes all other ideas easier to understand. Each Big Idea is not necessarily complicated, especially after you discover it. In fact, they can each be expressed in a short, declarative sentence. We don’t usually think in Big … Continue reading What’s the Big Idea?

Intentionally bequeathed or otherwise, a legacy is whatever you leave behind when you die for others to remember you by. A legacy project is a deliberate remembrance created by as many people as choose to participate. It can be created at any time and take any form. The project should be something that represents the person whose life is ending or has special meaning for … Continue reading What is a legacy project?