I don't have to work hard to remember the giggles and rapt attention of my kiddos when they were wee ones, glued to SpongeBob SquarePants cartoon. Not part of your cultural milieu? Quick primer: SpongeBob is a hyper-enthusiastic, endlessly chatty sea sponge who lives in a pineapple under the sea … [Read more...] about The Simple Way to Catch Your Own Brain Making Assumptions
“I see you too.” Four words, said quietly over my shoulder, which I’ve never forgotten. If you’ve ever walked into a room to teach, facilitate, or untangle a conflict and wondered how to really see the people in front of you, without boxing them in or glossing over what matters, this post is … [Read more...] about My Three Circle Check: A Simple Way to See People More Clearly (and stay out of the I.C.U.)
Feeling behind? Overwhelmed? Like your head and/or heart is going to explode from the unbelievable, surreal isht show going on in the world? (Thanks to my dear friend Marsha for that great term). I hear you. I feel you. 70% of us have experienced trauma 470 million of us … [Read more...] about Four mini ways to make you feel better in honour of World Mental Health Day
🗝️ A key heads-up: this is the final post of our month-long celebration of learning, and it’s time to announce the winner of the 1:1 call with me! Why? It's the one-year anniversary of the Transformative Trainers Academy (my membership for experts who've been asked to teach but never trained to … [Read more...] about Who won the 1:1 call? The thrilling reveal is inside, and your free bonus month ends tonight
🗝️ A key heads-up: this is truly the final post of our month-long celebration of the Transformative Trainers Academy one-year anniversary. I was originally going to announce the winner of the 1:1 call with me today, but realized I needed to get out this RoundTable invite to you. So I’ll announce the … [Read more...] about Learning and Development Roundtable – Simple tools to stop you and your brain from being overwhelmed
🗝️ A key heads-up: this is the final post of our month-long celebration of learning, and there's a prize in it for you, including the chance to win a 1:1 call with me. I’ll announce the winner in the next post. Why? It's the one-year anniversary of the Transformative Trainers Academy (my membership … [Read more...] about One Year, Five Doors, One Last Chance to Win
🗝️ A key heads-up: we're continuing our month-long celebration of learning, and there's a prize in it for you, including the chance to win a 1:1 call with me. Why? It's the one-year anniversary of the Transformative Trainers Academy (my membership for experts who've been asked to teach but never … [Read more...] about Truly Astonishing Lessons From an Unforgettable Year Teaching TTA
🗝️ A key heads-up: we're continuing our month-long celebration of learning, and there's a prize in it for you, including the chance to win a 1:1 call with me. Why? It's the one-year anniversary of the Transformative Trainers Academy (my membership for experts who've been asked to teach but never … [Read more...] about The Simple Way to Celebrate Your Own Learning
🗝️ A key heads-up: we're continuing our month-long celebration of learning, and there's a prize in it for you, including the chance to win a 1:1 call with me. Why? It's the one-year anniversary of the Transformative Trainers Academy (my membership for experts who've been asked to teach but never … [Read more...] about Learning and Development Roundtable – Team Engagement Strategies: Proven Tools and Techniques to Energize and Inspire Your Group
🗝️ A key heads-up: we're kicking off a month-long celebration of learning, and there's a prize in it for you, including the chance to win a 1:1 call with me. Why? It's the one-year anniversary of the Transformative Trainers Academy (my membership for experts who've been asked to teach but never … [Read more...] about The Simple Way to Spot Your Own Learning Origin Story
Last week I wrote about my 10x10 exercise - making ten lists of ten things each as a way of remembering, in the face of ongoing struggles, how much we’ve survived and to serve as some much-needed inspiration. I covered: Dance, Travel, Safaris, Leaps, and Forged. This week I continue with my … [Read more...] about My 10×10 Exercise: A Simple Way to Measure Your Own Resilience and More Part Two
It's been a hard stretch. For a lot of us, more than likely including you too. And when times get hard, we tend to do one thing reallllllllly well. We forget how much we've already survived and even thrived. So I create an exercise. Ten categories, ten items each, … [Read more...] about My 10×10 Exercise: A Simple Way to Measure Your Own Resilience and More Part One
The trick is for the (scissor) blades to learn to work smoothly together, so as not to cut each other.
— Mary Jo Putney
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
— Amelia Earhart
There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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