June 16, 2016
Sustaining Friendships
I did a one day graduate workshop on friendship a few years ago. One of the bits of feedback I got was that people were interested in more attention on how to sustain the friendships they had. As a result, I organized a mini-workshop on that topic for the last Gathering of the EE graduate community. As is our practice, […]
February 1, 2016
Communicating across Boundaries
We have significant and gratifying experience in the EE workshop communicating across the boundaries that often separate us. Younger people and older people get to see each other as people. People with money or status and people with little of either also get to see each other as people. Barriers of race, gender, education and religion are often overcome in […]
November 20, 2015
Authenticity
When we try to be “real” with others – “authentic,” we might say more formally – we mean many things. We often mean simply to share how we feel or what we want rather than to hide it. We say that our feelings are hurt, that we are angry, that we want more attention, or whatever, rather than just going […]