WRITINGS

Welcome! The writings and articles below are the accumulated teachings of Tanis Helliwell and the International Institute for Transformation. They are free for your use – and please do share as widely as you wish. We are all learning from each other and from our own experience. Enjoy!

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Taking the High Road

By Tanis Helliwell I would like to introduce you to a concept that I refer to as the high and low roads of work. When taking the high road, we are concerned both with what we do and how we

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Serving Others in All Jobs

By Tanis Helliwell  “When you work you fulfill a part of Earth’s furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life, And to love life through labour

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Seven Powers

Seven Powers to Increase Your Effectiveness By Tanis Helliwell When faced with difficult personal times, or even with feeling that we are powerless to affect positive change in the world, I think it is important for us to remember that

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Living and Working With Meaning

By Tanis Helliwell “Although attempting to bring about world peace through the internal transformation of individuals is difficult, it is the only way.”  –H.H. The Dalai Lama Our Work is Worth More than Money Often we have too small a

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Are you Burning out?

By Tanis Helliwell “You cannot change everything you face, but you have to face something to change it.” –Baldwin Burnout is an ever-increasing problem for individuals, for organizations and for our world. When we do not root our lives either

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Joys of Being

By Tanis Helliwell “If the “Know Thyself” of the oracle were an easy thing, it would not be held to be a divine injunction.”  — Plutarch February is here quicker this year and I’m not ready for it. One part of

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Organizations

Creating Healthy Organizations By Tanis Helliwell  Most of us spend three quarters of our waking hours working. If we are to lead happy productive lives we need to find work environments where we are growing into the best that we

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Commitment

By Judy Atkinson Commitment is like bacon and eggs: The chicken is involved, the pig is really committed! “Are you in like the pig, or like the chicken?” The sad fact is that most of us spend an inordinate amount

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