It was in October of 2006 that I was selected to participate in a program called The Philanthropy Workshop West (“TPW”).  The invitation came at a time in my life where I’d been on overdrive in many professional endeavors and my father recently had passed away–leaving me an “orphan in the universe.”

This crossroads called for a reassessment of my own commitments, as I needed to ferret out what truly mattered to me. It was time to pause and reflect on my life’s direction. For TPW’s final module, each of us were tasked to choose a non-profit organization we would become involved with as a participant, and prepare a 40 minute presentation incorporating our learnings from the nine-month TPW program in our engagement with this organization.
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Maggie Kaplan, Executive Director of Invoking the Pause is featured in this video where she shares the various mysteries that have unfolded both during the Convening and the initial startup phases of ITP.

“What surprises me about this experience is how it has taken to a level beyond which I could have anticipated. The level of professionalism, personality and opening, bearing of souls and essence as human beings has been inspiring. We had hoped in planning this Convening that people would bring their whole person. We wanted them to feel comfortable expressing the full range of their humanity.”

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