Time to Step Up

In my last‎ blog, I said something about chilling for the rest of the summer before creating new posts. That sounded perfect at the time. Well my friends, I felt inspired. I recently spent a week with an amazing group of people at The Daring Way™ Facilitator Training....

The Critical Importance of Human Connections

I recently read a Huffington Post article where the author argued that addiction is essentially an adaptation to a lack of human (social) connections. Although I’m not typically a fan of reducing complex social problems to simple explanations, my light bulb went on a...

Why Valuing Our Mistakes Matters

I’m a fan of Ted Talks. And two of my favorites are Brené Brown’s talks in 2010 and 2012. In the 2012 talk, she spoke about the importance of valuing our failures. I couldn’t agree more. Brené is among numerous authors and speakers that have talked about how, as we...

The Role of ‘Best Practices’

Over the past decade, the human services sector has become more and more focused on identifying and utilizing ‘best’ or evidence-based practices to achieve better outcomes or improve the cost-benefit ratio.  At face value, this seems like common sense.  That’s part of...

The Velvet Fist

In his blog post, Warren referenced the “really interesting conversations” he has had in the past couple of years that have served to stimulate his thinking about topics he will write about in the future. I too have been in conversations recently which have offered...