Building Healthy Learning Communities
The Applied Leadership Project (ALP) is the culminating project for the Masters of Environmental Leadership Program at Naropa University. This is the written and oral presentation of my research.
My Fascination with MLK
In my opinion, Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) was one of the greatest examples of human potential. He embodied so many significant quality that we look for in a leader: respect, fearlessness, passion, compassion, humility, and mindfulness, to name a few.
Honest Abe and Climate Change
Last night, I saw Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln. It was stunning and fantastic. Aside from a few cinematography liberties exercised, it was historically precise. What follows are some of the thoughts that it triggered in me.
Neuroscience and Group Dynamics
Just like the brain, group work is far from static. It is an ever-evolving matrix of relationships. Messages and roles are constantly changing from person to person, from neuron to neuron.
Avoiding Nonprofit Burnout
This paper examines the driving factors of burnout within small nonprofit organizations and purposes interventions aimed to create “organization authenticity”, a term inspired from the work of Morris Berman (1981) on body authenticity.
Selfcare and Worldview
What happens when a young, important movement still lies on the fringe in society? What are the common challenges that it faces? I would like to focus this section on two challenges that are usually associated with the infancy of a movement: self-care and worldview.