The Fixed Mindset within the Individual Often times, we attract certain people who can teach us something about ourselves. They may not know that they are teaching us. The lesson is more encoded in the overall experience and interaction itself. Usually, we have something to teach them as well. These lessons help us to identify [...]

Traditional Town Halls A traditional town hall is an informal public meeting, usually held in a public space. Everybody in the community is invited to attend and participate. Typically, elected public officials host such meetings to discuss community issues, face to face with the local town’s people, who have an opportunity to add to the [...]

Do you get flustered at how some people negatively respond to you when you attempt to make a point about a political issue?  After all, all you’re trying to do is get your ideas across, but they react so defensively and don’t seem to listen. They seem to interrupt, barking back their opinions, or just [...]

Up to now, the story of how liberals and conservatives engage in political discourse and problem solving has been marked by polarization, with questionable outcomes. Each side pushes its own agenda, thinking it has the answers to all the problems. The question is whether this story has served us well? We face mounting problems, including [...]

One psychological theory holds that after we are born, we soon begin experiencing negativity. Those aspects of ourselves that don’t fit into our family dynamics become shamed or wounded. To survive, we cope by disowning and disconnecting from those shamed or wounded aspects. However, those unwanted aspects don’t disappear. They submerge into the recesses of [...]

Since the time each of us was born, we have been faced with many challenges. Many of these challenges are natural to a life housed in a physical body on planet earth. However, other challenges, which present themselves as problems or issues in our lives, are self-created and first appeared when our shadow self was [...]