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12/22/2021

Cities have historically had a bad reputation for mental and physical health. However, in a fast-urbanising world, the higher social connectivity of larger cities could have positive influences on city dwellers’ mental health. While more social contacts make containing epidemics such as COVID-19 harder, they also lead to greater economic opportunity, more political and technological innovation, and, apparently, lower rates of depression. As more people live in cities every year, it is important that we acknowledge, measure and internalise how the physical places we inhabit – and the people we share those spaces with – influence our wellbeing in ways we might not expect."

Large cities might seem detrimental to mental health but a comparison of depression rates suggests bigger is better

12/10/2021

- Compassion in Times of Crisis.

His Holiness the Dalai Lama”s conversation on Embracing Hope, Courage, and Compassion in Times of Crisis with two scientists followed by a question and answe...

12/08/2021

"Heartbeats, breaths and gut contractions repeat themselves with regularity, keeping the body warm and fed – a physiological equilibrium known as homeostasis. Moreover, each of these cycles involves peripheral nerves – especially the vagus nerve – sending chemical and electrical signals to the central nervous system. As a result, the activity of specific regions of the central nervous system synchronises with cardiac, respiratory and gastric fluctuations. While sensory impressions coming from the external environment vary from moment to moment and fade away, this coupling between brain and viscera is a permanent feature of your physiology. You can close your eyes, cover your ears, hold your nose or seal your mouth, but you cannot cut yourself off from your bowels. Everything changes around you, but your internal organs are always there, always broadcasting signals to the brain, always playing their thorough bass in the grand music of life. "

Exciting new research findings are validating ancient folk beliefs that root the sense of self deep in the body’s organs

11/10/2021

Vanguard Skin Specialists hosted a series of complimentary Minari screenings throughout southern Colorado, in appreciation to frontline healthcare workers, f...

09/24/2021

"What does Emotional Intelligence (EI) mean?
Emotional Intelligence refers to a different way of being smart. EI is a key to high performance, particularly for outstanding leadership. It’s not your IQ, but rather it’s how you manage yourself and your relationships with others."

—Daniel Goleman, Crucial Competence: Building Emotional and Social Leadership

This article will define emotional intelligence (EI) and break down the 4 domains and 12 competencies that make up Daniel Goleman’s framework.

09/23/2021

The South Korean cultural envoys for the Republic of Korea representing the youth they influence worldwide - speak of reimagining the world through the light they see in the faces of their friends. The stories of friends, acolytes and mentors around the world, that we have reconnected to, from the small spaces of our life-work rooms.

The world of careless connection has been taken away, in quarantine. So what is the new world we have been bringing to life in our imagination. If the new stars in our night sky are the stories we have learnt about one another, how does this change our field of action?

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09/14/2021

"Martha: This is practically a Freudian notion of a kind of manic defense against death. It is not like formal mania. It’s not psychosis. It is an activated, grandiose invulnerability, and you see this a lot, even on an individual level. You see funerals that are a celebration of life, where you can just tell that everybody’s feeling their appreciation and the gratitude and their presence. And that they can still sort of hear the person’s voice in their ears. It is like the horror hasn’t hit them yet. They’re in an initial, almost ecstatic phase of grief where you’re just so relieved that you remember the person or that you’re alive, you had your toes curled on the dip so you didn’t fall in. There’s a kind of manic response that is activated and grandiose and inflated by massive, collective crisis.

Tressie: What many of us struggle to understand is how and why this manic response is so unchecked by logic or even motivated self-interest. Is there something about our Western mode of thinking or our collective belief in rugged individualism that makes us rush through the process of grief in these weird, counterproductive ways?

Martha: On this territory, there is no culture that is plugged into the radio, television or reads books that hasn’t been indoctrinated to believe in this kind of notion of pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. If you are living in a community that fosters a kind of humility and interdependency and mourning and sense of mortality, you’re doing that as a radical act against that individualistic way of thinking.

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That sense of community requires a lot of humility, precisely the thing I am afraid that the onslaught of Covid denial stories is robbing me of by undermining my empathy for others. Martha helped me with perspective. This is not a problem of individual moral certainty or persuasion. This is a social problem with big structural issues. That does not absolve me of my responsibility for seeing the humanity in people I vehemently disagree with, but it does make me feel less guilty about being unable to save them.

I still do not understand how we can be in community with people who, by withdrawing from their social responsibility, are actively harming others. But I do not think I have to understand it. I don’t think that I even have to be in community with Covid deniers. I have to somehow be in community with the people who are behaving in socially responsible ways without demonizing those who are not. Demonizing them turns my community into a reactionary force, which is precisely how the vaccines and masks became weaponized to begin with. It is a classic case of not becoming what you despise by losing focus on what you value. Still, I honked my horn at that little rally last week, and it was definitely not in solidarity with the anti-vaccine demonstrators. Baby steps." - Tressie McMillan Cottom (NYTimes, September 2021)
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We are all grieving. But some of us are rushing into a collective denial of death and loss.

08/14/2021

"Twenty years ago, Erin Brockovich was released, and the brash, unvarnished legal assistant turned activist at the heart of the film—memorably portrayed by Julia Roberts in micro-miniskirts and vertiginous high heels—had the surreal experience of becoming a household name almost overnight. “Let me be the first to tell you that life takes an interesting turn when your name becomes a verb,” the real Erin Brockovich writes in the introduction to her new book, Superman’s Not Coming. “To ‘Erin Brockovich something’ has become synonymous with investigating and then advocating for a cause without giving up.” - Amanda Fortini, The Atlantic (Sept. 2020)

Twenty years after her moment in the Hollywood spotlight, the famed water-safety activist has not slowed down.

08/13/2021

Episode 7: The Treasure Trove of Emotional Intelligence - Interview with Dr. Nithila Peter

For a lifelong process of developing EI and creating Parity - a few pointers.

Emotional Intelligence - understanding ourselves and relating to others - will help us achieve parity. Join us as we interview Dr. Nithila Peter of eiLeads to learn how to improve your emotional intelligence and how EI helps us implement the Parity Prescription. You can find the resources that we us...

07/15/2021

"Emotional acknowledgment is the simple act of noticing a nonverbal emotional cue—like a frown or grin—and mentioning it. This mention can be a question or a statement, such as “You look upset” or “You seem excited.”

The authors borrow from costly signaling theory, a concept proposed by evolutionary biologist Amotz Zahavi in the 1970s, to suggest that this small act can have a powerful effect because it is read as a sign of genuine intentions. As an example, Zahavi argued that when peacocks fan out their tails to attract mates, it is an “honest signal” of their reproductive fitness. That’s because the colorful display also attracts predators, a potentially fatal risk for weaker peacocks." - Greater Good, Berkeley.edu

Recognizing your coworkers' feelings is a way to show that you care.

06/18/2021

"Over the past year, propelled by the murder of George Floyd, about a dozen members of Hella Creative launched a campaign to educate the public about the significance of Juneteenth, which is the day in 1865 that the final enslaved people were freed in the United States. The group also lobbied companies to give employees the day off to commemorate it and immerse themselves in Black history.

These efforts worked: More than 800 companies have pledged to make Juneteenth a paid holiday for workers. Yesterday, President Biden signed a bill enshrining the day as a federal holiday, which makes Juneteenth the first holiday that acknowledges America’s history of slavery and celebrates the contributions Black Americans have made to this country."

The day commemorates June 19, 1865, when the Union army arrived in Texas to announce that the Civil War had ended and enslaved people were now free. It was two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Some believe enslavers deliberately withheld the news to keep their plantations running; others believe federal troops waited to let slave owners reap their last harvest before communicating that slavery had been abolished. Since then, Black Texans have celebrated Juneteenth with elaborate parades, cookouts, and parties, much like the rest of the nation celebrates the 4th of July.

Meet the designers whose activism got companies to commemorate the end of slavery.

06/18/2021

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, explains what Biden has to accomplish in resetting relations with Vladimir Putin, the Russian President. She is insightful, eloquent and has a thorough perspective. Communication processes on this issue, formidable. Highly recommended watch.

Fmr. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joins Morning Joe to discuss President Biden's meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, why she says Putin is t...