“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”~ Buddha Over the past month, we have talked on and on about self-love and how it is healing to our mental, emotional and spiritual health. But, one of the most imperative steps to beginning t...
Again, as with”The Moment of Cubism,” there’s no indication of any journalistic or commercial synergy for this article, composed of evocative descriptive prose, whose basic theme is that a painter can only paint such imagery as is conceivable in his own time. Describing the bed in a pain...
Freud once said that “words were originally magic.” In this interactive presentation, John Sommers-Flanagan will describe how clinical interviewing involves a process of using word magic to shift clients from a locked constructivist state to receptive social constructionism. This presentation focuses on...
It just makes sense…the myriad articles recently penned by so-called professionals and specialists describing our perceived inferiority, our unattractiveness, castigating us as the “least desirable” of society. What’s that about?! And lately, the scapegoating tactics have become more subversive i...
GMO herbicides and weed resistance. I was describing 15 years ago in Future Harvests, that mono-usage of the likes of Roundup Ready GMOs were going to end with massive issues of weed resistance. That’s exactly what happened. Anyone with basics in biology and understanding of how organisms mu...
At the beginning of the new year, or term, ask parents to write a “in a million words or less” letter describing their child. Once you have received letters from all the parents, take some time to read each letter and learn about the unique character, desires, needs and talents of ...
We adopted a mixed deductive and inductive approach to item generation, both considering the top-down theory, and the bottom-up qualitative research describing need-related experiences. To support this, we developed a ‘primer’ for item generators, consisting of key top-down theoretical definitions...
Sonja Lyubomirsky began her PP work with a paper describing a measure of happiness (Lyubomirsky & Lepper, 1999). Then, for the rest of her career, she has focused mainly on exploring the causes of happiness. One of the most significant contributions from Lyubomirsky has been her work populariz...
When presented with a conspiracy theory, I like to ask for the evidence. I generally reject YouTube video sources and weird websites. They never have facts, just beliefs and opinions. So the real question is: where, oh theorists of the conspiracy type, are all these false positives that ...
Some of it’s more ambitious as well. I started a short documentary project about how the pandemic is disproportionately impacting lower-income people who can’t work from home. I’m co-leading it with a woman in Oklahoma, based on her piece o...