March 2014

25 Mar

Posted at 07:40h in change-agent, Glimpse into Me, My life, Positive Psychology, Social-Emotional Leadership, SOMO Leadership by

I wrote this paper during my Masters in the Foundations of Education -- a year or so before I had discovered positive psychology (or as I like to think sometimes: how positive psychology found me). It was before I thought the words "SOcial-eMOtional leadership" -- I had a vision for it. I sensed/intuited the need. Rereading it now gives my life such a re-membered sense of meaning & purpose. Thank you for sharing it with me. ********* Louis J. Alloro March 18, 2006 CURR 534 Change Paper It is unfortunate that we have trained to believe that change can not happen – or at the very...

10 Mar

Posted at 16:13h in Glimpse into Me, gratitude, Mindfulness by

[caption id="attachment_1192" align="alignleft" width="150"] Me and my twin sister, Christine at age 3. Monkey heads![/caption] I've been looking through old photos lately -- pictures of Little Louis, a little monkey whose head was always slightly larger than his body -- until his body became larger than anything else. I was a fat kid. (That's largely my story.) I remember being age9 and not fitting in the GAP jeans mom wanted to buy me. I was devastated. We had to go to the "special store." Not long thereafter, I went to Weight Watcher meetings with my Aunt Mary Ann at the VFW in...

04 Mar

Posted at 22:37h in change-agent, family, Glimpse into Me, Social-Emotional Leadership by

[caption id="attachment_1174" align="alignleft" width="300"] These are my most beautiful parents on the night of their 50th wedding anniversary party, August 2013[/caption] I am a (maybe 'the') suitability zealot in our family. On holidays, I'm the one to take out a second pail to recycle all of the wine and water bottles we go through. I'm often given a hard time by the "powers-that-be" that it's just too much work on a day with such hustle and bustle. "But look," I'd say, "It's really not. Look how easy this is," as I'd affix a sign on the one pail that says "recycle...

02 Mar

Posted at 21:19h in Action Research, Glimpse into Me by

This is my application essay to the University of Pennsylvania Master in Applied Positive Psychology program, which I wrote in March, 2008. In a quest to clean up files on my computer, I found it tonight and it makes me smile to know I am still on my path towards freedom. *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  * For some time now, I have been thinking that I when my time comes, I’d like my tombstone to read, “It feels...

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