Most people can vividly remember a moment in their life when they felt very deeply heard and understood by another—perhaps by a friend or partner, therapist or teacher, family or community member. On ...

When we think of leadership, we often think in terms of output. A leader is someone who provides inspiration, teaching, direction, vision, and problem-solving. But true leaders distinguish themselves ...

In his Oct. 23rd talk at Page Auditorium, Percival Everett — the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book “James” — repeatedly speaks to his seemingly antiquated practices, including his abstinence ...

This post is Part 1 of a two-part series. Have you ever spaced out when someone was talking to you? Or have you ever talked to someone whom you had a feeling wasn't listening? They were somewhere else ...

In this excerpt from It’s Not Magic, author and psychologist John Amaechi explains how most of us fall into the trap of not ...

Facilitation is an art that draws on the living - that is, on the observation of natural processes - to promote learning and transformation. Whether accompanying a group, creating an eco-place or ...

We’ve all witnessed it. The Thanksgiving table and other family gatherings turned terribly wrong. “Don’t talk about politics.” Maybe our parents told us that. Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost the ...

In this time of political partisanship, Americans hold widely divergent views of what is right, and by gum, if we could talk to those “on the other side,” we could persuade them to recognize that we ...