Would you plant vegetables over a toxic waste dump? When we try to change organizations without buy-in and commitment, that's what we are doing. Image created by Gemini AI Read more ...
8 days ago • 1 min read
On March 18, 2025 we finished up the MindShifting: Conflict and Collaboration course with 12 presentations on lessons that participants created. These are so inspiring, there were lessons for young children through high school, lessons for adults, posters, a song, and an AI generated podcast about a technique to de-escalate a confrontation with a student. You won't want to miss these. The next MindShifting class starts April 22 (NY teachers can find the course on Frontline, WA teachers can...
14 days ago • 1 min read
Fong Chua hosts the Peak Potential Success show, and I recently had the chance to talk with him about succeeding despite adversity, developing a mindset that fuels success, and #MindShifting. I hope you find this as helpful and interesting as I did. You might want to consider subscribing to the podcast for more interesting discussions.
20 days ago • 1 min read
Carl Jung, frenemy of Sigmund Freud, and a pillar of Psychoanalysis. He died in 1977, and in his later years talked about the interfaces between humans and technology. He felt that our relationship with technology would be the greatest danger we faced in the future. Here is a quote from one of his later interviews: “The power of science and technics … is so enormous and indisputable that there is little point in reckoning up all that can be done and all that has been invented. One shudders at...
22 days ago • 1 min read
The highest happiness a human being can have is overcoming our internal Saboteurs and creating something in the face of adversity.
28 days ago • 1 min read
The tales of Cassandra and Jonah are direct opposites. In his desire to seduce Cassandra, the god Apollo gave her the gift of prophecy, she could see the future. But when she spurned him, he twisted the gift into a curse, while she could foretell the future, and she would speak the truth, no one would believe her. Cassandra had the knowledge of impending disasters, but had to watch helplessly as her prophecies unfolded, her warning dismissed as the ramblings of a madwoman. Read more here.
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Sending a planeload of people who were in the US without immigration papers to Panama monopolizes media. The story has everything: illegal immigrants, Panama bending to Trump after he threatened them, airplanes, military, international relations. Did that make you angry? Anxious? Happy? Donald Trump is the par excellence of creating memorable moments. Read more
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Have you noticed how much conflict there seems to be in the world today? Nation vs Nation. Race vs Race. State vs State. Liberals vs Populists. Person vs. Person. Are you feeling it? Some of us are feeling we are at the breaking point Never has it been more important to know how to work through conflict, to find connection, and to move toward solution. That's why I am offering 6 scholarships to the MindShifting: Conflict and Collaboration course that starts February 25. I don't want cost to...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Can you collaborate with people you vehemently disagree with or even dislike: What would it take?
about 2 months ago • 1 min read