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 …
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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 …
Jenny Scribble Snake and KC Scribble Face What we “see” objectively can often change very quickly. We recently ran a workshop at Montgomery County Government with Building Site Inspectors. We had made a powerpoint on a simple white slide template and, because the facility did not have a screen on which to project the powerpoint, we projected it onto the …
Gioia and Rebecca’s Recent Publication Happy Spring–for those of us the East Coast it has finally arrived. Gioia and I wanted to share with you that we have just published our second article about positive psychology and art therapy, a topic that most of you who know us know that we are passionate about and deeply committed to. Gioia and …
Rebecca–Rabbits-Card for Annie’s Bday Sometimes when “good” things happen to us we feel like we had have stroke of good luck–we find a hundred dollar bill, we’re running late for an interview but we hit a string of green lights and find a parking spot right in front of the job site, we are in “the right place at the …
Gioia–Love “Love” gets batted around quite a bit during the month of February, for obvious reasons. We thought we would offer a different take on love emerging from research of psychologist Barbara Fredrickson. “Love is not romance. It’s not sexual desire. It’s not even that special bond you feel with family or significant others.” According to Barbara Fredrickson, whose recent work …
The Fiber Arts Guild Workshop with Their Altered Books Hello! Happy 2013 and warm winter wishes to everyone! We recently held a lecture with the Potomac Fiber Arts Guild on accessing and increasing creativity and engagement with 50 attendees. Later 20 of the Guild’s members joined us for an afternoon Altered Books workshop in which we combined journaling, bookmaking, and strategies …
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