I’ve been a part of a lot of teams, in business, sports, and community. We strive for the ideal: to be collaborative, efficient, productive, innovative, and fun for people to be a part of. But teamwork is hard, and we rarely achieve even close to ideal. These ideal expectations often seem in contradiction with each other. We seemingly have to trade-off one for another. Either innovative, or … [Read more...]
Time in Nature isn’t Extracurricular
I am excited to see this article “90 Minutes in Nature Really Change the Brain” (http://www.futurity.org/nature-depression-951762/) highlighting some great research from Stanford University. For so many years I lived a city life in apartment buildings and townhouses, keeping my sanity by escaping on weekends for camping trips and by keeping my hands dirty in the community garden. As I got … [Read more...]
Dandelion: Friend or Foe?
Earlier this summer I went to the Mother Earth News Fair in Oregon. I hesitantly out myself here by admitting that I was über-excited about attending this back-to-the-land homesteader event (for the second year in a row). I spent many evenings reviewing the fair program over and over again negotiating with my husband which of us would attend which session to make the most of it. It turns out … [Read more...]
Neuroscience, Nature, and Leadership
As a recovering intellectual, I love learning about how others are proving what I always knew intuitively: the value of connecting with nature and paying attention to our bodies and emotions. Here are a few of my recent favorites: Your Body Shapes Who You Are Amy Cuddy at TED Global 2012 Amy Cuddy, Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, talks about her research which shows how body … [Read more...]
Hacked By GeNErAL
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