Narrative, framing, and the urgency of intersectionality
Crenshaw reflects on the importance of conceptual frames to understand the stuff that happens in our lives.
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The Happiness Lab: Dump Your Inner Drill Sergeant
Many episodes of this podcast by Dr. Laurie Santos are helpful. This one is both seasonal and evergreen.
Odyssey: A Journey of Growth
In 1990, in Vancouver, we made a documentary about our work with young people using substances. This was made through community television at Rogers. Randy Jones had a weekly community television show at the time, with Rogers, and he was our entry point to pitching this. We paid for the video tape, and did the…
Resilience coaching can change your life
Video review from Carl on working with Kim Cairns.
Talk on parenting; Happy New Year on your parenting journey
This is a humorous and serious TED Talk by the owners of Babble.com on the early years of parenting and societal taboos on what parents can talk about. It is an interesting perspective on bringing the “hard realities” to the parenting discussion. TED-Talk-on-Parenting
Emotional intelligence: how good leaders become great – UC Davis Executive Leadership Program
The UC Davis Executive Leadership Program is a transformative, interactive seminar series that will expand your ability to confidently guide and direct your organization. Gain practical techniques, effective strategies and essential personal insight to become a passionate, inspiring leader. In this video, instructor Mitchel Adler, Psy.D., CGP, discusses emotional intelligence and how good leaders use…
From the archive: James Baldwin speech at the University of California at Berkeley (1979)
Issues of anti-Black racism and policing are top of mind these days. We [white folks] need to do better.
Teams that think about their impact on each other, do better
Emotional intelligence is the ability to be aware of your feelings and acknowledge their role in your decision making and behaviour. Teams that think about their impact on each other and who develop their emotional intelligence do better.
Perspective shifting with PathCrafters
Emotional intelligence is the ability to be aware of your feelings and acknowledge their role in your decision making and behaviour. Teams that think about their impact on each other and who develop their emotional intelligence do better.
Here’s to resilience (and the end of the efficiency myth)
We have lived through an era of emphasis on efficiencies and as predictability success declines in this modern era there is a requirement for, and a benefit from our ability to adapt quickly to changing circumstances.
Overlooked factors that determine success
What’s Not On The Test: The Overlooked Factors That Determine Success What’s not on the test, Hidden Brain, NPR So I said, you know, this is obviously true. But it turned out that in psychology at that time, there was a sense that somehow personality and the subject of personality was kind of, you know,…