“Take everything that’s bright and beautiful in you and introduce it to the shadow side of yourself,” the wise and wonderful Parker Palmer counseled the young in his superb Naropa Unviersity commencement address. Only by accepting our…

Roughly speaking there are only two reasons you do anything in life:Because you want to.Because someone else wants you to. The first category of internally motivated activities might include things like eating, socialising, hobbies and going on ho…

In her new book Teach Your Children Well: Parenting for Authentic Success, psychologist and author Madeline Levine exposes the pitfalls of over-parenting, and argues for a new definition of success and achievement.    Levine uses the term &l…

DescriptionJim Manske’s insight:Makes sense, doesn’t it, that beginning with empathic listening, then connecting to needs before creating a strategy would lead to more connection?See it on Scoop.it, via Radical Compassion