September 2009

24 Sep

Posted at 12:29h in Love, Meaning, positive emotion, Positive Psychology, Relationships, savoring by

[caption id="attachment_138" align="alignleft" width="286" caption="Me with Ariana (left) and Cruz (right)"][/caption] I spent the past weekend in Florida visiting some old and new friends. It was amazing to spend time with Joe and Terry (the old ones) and their two-month old fraternal twins, Ariana Michele and Cruz Aiden (the new ones). How amazing it was to meet these little guys for the first time – so precious and sweet and innocent. So easy to love. I admire the measures Joe and Terry took to even have these babies. Given they are two men, these measures were creative, far from convention,...

22 Sep

Posted at 19:12h in Action Research, forgiveness, Hope, positive emotion, Positive Psychology, Relationships, resiliency, savoring, social contagion factor by

Hello Mother, Hello Father Greetings from summer sleep-away camp. Really, I write this tucked away in the woods in northeastern Pennsylvania – a tiny spot of heaven called Camp Happy Times – aptly named for a place where two hundred kids who have or have had cancer come for a week’s time of fun, fun, and more fun. They come here to celebrate the joy of life. Essentially, they come here to be kids, not just the “kids with cancer”. [caption id="attachment_132" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="This is me (center) in the middle of the table in a cake eating contest. I...

18 Sep

Posted at 13:30h in Action Research, Coaching, Cognitive-behavioral, Life Coach, Life Coaching, Positive Psychology, Thoughts-Action by

When I Let Go Of What I Am, I Become What I Might Be. ~Lao Tzu I was driving with my sister the other day and said something about the voices in my head getting in the way. “You have voices in your head?” she asked. “We all do,” I responded. * Are you a ‘should’er? * These voices are often related to belief systems which tell you what you SHOULD be doing - or even more simply, who you SHOULD be. A suggestion: Put these SHOULDs on a list and then once all there, cross out the should and replace...

13 Sep

Posted at 14:43h in Uncategorized by

Several weeks ago, I had the opportunity to participate in a really cool experience: An Appreciative Inquiry (AI) summit hosted by Mayor Jackson of Cleveland, Ohio called Sustainable Cleveland 2019: Building an Economic Engine to Empower a Green City on a Blue Lake. The event brought together business, political, educational, and religious leaders from across the Cleveland community to create a new collective economic vision: a sustainable, green economy for the region by the year 2019. "How," you ask? This is the task of the Appreciative Inquiry summits: to have the system figure out the "how." It's about figuring out...

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