Thursday, January 14, 2010
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
Sustaining CONFIDENCE while building a business!
This is a great blog post from Rhonda Hess about how to sustain confidence. I especially like it because it criticizes "The Secret," a movie I found facile, dishonest and frankly creepy in that it dispensed so completely with altruism. (Of course we all love it when someone dislikes the same things we dislike, right? I had the good fortune to see that movie with some close friends who all had the same reaction.)
Rhonda breaks it down here- how the universe does provide, but, as the saying goes, "helps those who help themselves!"
Happy reading!
Rhonda breaks it down here- how the universe does provide, but, as the saying goes, "helps those who help themselves!"
Happy reading!
Monday, December 7, 2009
Looking for a way to make the world better?
I met this guy Don, and I think he is doing really solid work, mostly
financed out of his own money. If you are looking for a worthy
Christmas donation spot - I recommend this.
You can contact Karen at karen@karenschachtermsw.com
The note from Karen:
A number of you have expressed a wish to donate, or to know more about
Village Empowerment, so I wanted to follow up and invite all of you to
check out his website, www.VillageEmpowerment.com
. If you’d like to know more
about what he’s doing, be sure to sign up for his newsletter list and
you’ll get occasional updates. (They are sure to inspireJ)
Don’s work has been very meaningful to
me, primarily because I have seen, first-hand, his passion, his
commitment and his contribution.
I feel pulled to do more and to help him toward his goal of supporting the 200 villages throughout Africa
who are requesting his help to become self-sustaining.
Our family also plans to take a trip to Malawi later this year, if possible, to
see Don, and his work, in action, and to participate ourselves in the
change he is creating.
If you would like to contribute to Village Empowerment, and
specifically to our family’s goal of raising enough money to help
create self-sufficiency in a village ($10,000), please contact me.
I would like to send the gift to Don by the end of next week if possible. I am very grateful for your
generous support.
Any amount helps – Noah donated $38 of his
allowance, which is enough to feed a family of 4 for a month! Hannah
donated $10 which will buy clothes for 2 children!
So if you can give $10 or $20 or whatever your budget allows, that can do a world of
good in these communities!
financed out of his own money. If you are looking for a worthy
Christmas donation spot - I recommend this.
You can contact Karen at karen@karenschachtermsw.com
The note from Karen:
A number of you have expressed a wish to donate, or to know more about
Village Empowerment, so I wanted to follow up and invite all of you to
check out his website, www.VillageEmpowerment.com
about what he’s doing, be sure to sign up for his newsletter list and
you’ll get occasional updates. (They are sure to inspireJ)
Don’s work has been very meaningful to
me, primarily because I have seen, first-hand, his passion, his
commitment and his contribution.
I feel pulled to do more and to help him toward his goal of supporting the 200 villages throughout Africa
who are requesting his help to become self-sustaining.
Our family also plans to take a trip to Malawi later this year, if possible, to
see Don, and his work, in action, and to participate ourselves in the
change he is creating.
If you would like to contribute to Village Empowerment, and
specifically to our family’s goal of raising enough money to help
create self-sufficiency in a village ($10,000), please contact me.
I would like to send the gift to Don by the end of next week if possible. I am very grateful for your
generous support.
Any amount helps – Noah donated $38 of his
allowance, which is enough to feed a family of 4 for a month! Hannah
donated $10 which will buy clothes for 2 children!
So if you can give $10 or $20 or whatever your budget allows, that can do a world of
good in these communities!
Friday, November 20, 2009
theater methodologies for helping traumatized youth
I found this paper on the use of drama techniques for helping young people affected by trauma and violence.
There has been some discussion in the interim about how to use these methods safely, with professionals like Van der Kolk feeling they may re-expose and re-trigger if not done properly.
There has been some discussion in the interim about how to use these methods safely, with professionals like Van der Kolk feeling they may re-expose and re-trigger if not done properly.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Keeping it Simple
Top Ten from Sandy Davis
Here are 10 tips that will help you keep your self-care activities simple and effective:
(1) Because you cannot give what you do not have, make it a daily habit to pay yourself first. Once you’ve done so, you’ll be able to pay others generously, compassionately, and continuously.
(2) To ensure that you pay yourself first, you may need to invert your priorities. As much as possible, make your daily self-care your first priority, and then schedule everything else in your day around that sacrosanct priority.
(3) As much as possible, turn your ongoing self-care activities into consistent daily routines. Make them unfailing habits.
(4) Make sure you set up self-care structures for yourself that are ecological and that work well for you. If you find a particular structure to be causing you more stress than it is relieving, redesign that structure.
(5) Chunk down your daily practices until they are manageable ongoing commitments—and then do them without fail. It’s better to aim just high enough to hit the target right in the center, than to aim way too high and miss the target completely.
(6) Remember to embrace your failures with honesty and humility. If something is broken, fix it.
(7) Remember also to joyfully celebrate all your successes—big, small, and even miniscule. Small successes beget big ones.
(8) Keep your sense of humor about you. A little bit of laughter goes a long way.
(9) Dare to imagine outrageously wonderful adventures and successes, and then pursue them with abiding courage, patience, and faith.
(10) Practice, practice, and practice some more.
Sandy Davis | (207) 563-7263
Sandy@ResilienceWorks.com | http://www.ResilienceCircle.com
Here are 10 tips that will help you keep your self-care activities simple and effective:
(1) Because you cannot give what you do not have, make it a daily habit to pay yourself first. Once you’ve done so, you’ll be able to pay others generously, compassionately, and continuously.
(2) To ensure that you pay yourself first, you may need to invert your priorities. As much as possible, make your daily self-care your first priority, and then schedule everything else in your day around that sacrosanct priority.
(3) As much as possible, turn your ongoing self-care activities into consistent daily routines. Make them unfailing habits.
(4) Make sure you set up self-care structures for yourself that are ecological and that work well for you. If you find a particular structure to be causing you more stress than it is relieving, redesign that structure.
(5) Chunk down your daily practices until they are manageable ongoing commitments—and then do them without fail. It’s better to aim just high enough to hit the target right in the center, than to aim way too high and miss the target completely.
(6) Remember to embrace your failures with honesty and humility. If something is broken, fix it.
(7) Remember also to joyfully celebrate all your successes—big, small, and even miniscule. Small successes beget big ones.
(8) Keep your sense of humor about you. A little bit of laughter goes a long way.
(9) Dare to imagine outrageously wonderful adventures and successes, and then pursue them with abiding courage, patience, and faith.
(10) Practice, practice, and practice some more.
Sandy Davis | (207) 563-7263
Sandy@ResilienceWorks.com | http://www.ResilienceCircle.com
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Wrongly Pathologizing Populations
Vanessa Pupavac's article "Pathologizing Populations and Colonizing Minds: International Psychosocial Programs in Kosovo" appeared in Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Vol. 27, 2002.
It is worth a read: http://tr.im/BXxh
Pupavac correctly cautions against superimposing Western notions of how whole populations (e.g. refugees) get traumatized because it interferes with self-government potential (among other things).
It is worth a read: http://tr.im/BXxh
Pupavac correctly cautions against superimposing Western notions of how whole populations (e.g. refugees) get traumatized because it interferes with self-government potential (among other things).
Saturday, September 19, 2009
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