Rebecca–Sails Peter Drucker, often called the founder of modern business management, was famous for suggesting that when we focus more on strengths, our weaknesses become irrelevant. Robert Biswas-Diener, one of our favorite positive psychologists, has a really great take on this idea. He says that it isn’t that we should ignore our weaknesses, and at times we may actually have …
Blank Mandala July 2016 Those of you who know us-who have attended one of our workshops or trainings-know that we love mandalas. Big mandalas, small mandalas, coloring mandalas, all kinds of mandalas! Although in some ways mandalas are nothing more than a circle drawn on a piece of paper, there is something compelling about that simple form. Mandalas have been called …
Jenny Wilkinson–Mandala We at CWW are blessed with a very specific signature strength-Appreciation of Beauty and Excellence. One might assume that everyone is endowed with this quality. And yes most people do have visual preferences-evident in the colors they choose to paint their rooms, the way they arrange their living space, the particular flair they have in their style of …
Rebecca–Cleaning Markers We just went to a Psychodrama conference in Phoenix and were inspired by some strategies that they use to help people to take action in their lives. Psychodrama is a field that uses role playing and techniques from the world of drama and stage to help people gain more insight into themselves and to bring about positive changes in their …
Rebecca–Don Juan Finally Released to His New Home Rebecca recently had her hands full transporting her cat, Don Juan, from DC to Tucson. The trip was an absurd comedy of errors. She recounted the day as follows: Things started out fairly uneventfully for us at the airport. I had TSA pre-check so that I didn’t have to take off my …
The Cat Out of the Bag and Other Stressors Click to Read Post »
Gioia and Laura First–Snow Spirals We recently got a historic snow storm here on the East Coast. In the Washington DC area, we are still digging out, and the kids have been home from school for a week. However, Gioia still had to get to work. She was scheduled to do an outdoor challenge group, a structured trust building exercise …
Rebecca’s Golden Circle The New Year is upon us! Many of us are carrying over into 2016 resolutions we’d like to have accomplished in 2015. We may have had firm intentions at the start of last year to follow through, but got distracted or lost focus as the year progressed. Here at CWW, our resolution is to finish a book that …
Why, What, How? Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle Click to Read Post »
Rebecca–Card for Lois “Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.” Dalai Lama It’s that time of year–Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s. For better or worse, ‘tis the season. Rebecca, known for being something of a Grinch, is fond of complaining about the “worse” part. For example, during the holidays the commercialism and the pressure to spend money can distract us …
Rebecca–Path/Fuse Sometimes a cigar is not a cigar. Perception is a tricky little creature. We know that what we “see”, what we think is “reality”, is susceptible to all sorts of biochemical mechanisms. What seems clearly obvious to some may be completely invisible to others. What we “see” may also change dramatically when something shifts our perception. Rebecca’s husband, KC, is fond of …
Gioia–Pensive Who Would You Be?I’d be Ghandi, I’d be Martin Luther King, Jr.,I’d be Me! If you could be like anyone, who would you be and why? We used to pose this question on the inpatient units, just as a conversational warm up with patients. Some answers were predictable-Oprah, Jesus, George Clooney, Denzel Washington, or Princess Diana. Some people wanted …
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