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No leadership without community — 2CEUs

Leadership requires community: there is no leader without a follower and there is no leader without a sense of service towards that follower, “Creative leaders accept as a law of human nature that people feel a commitment to a decision… Continue Reading →

What is Depression and is it terminal? 2CEUs

Elizabeth Wurtzel, in her autobiography, Prozac Nation, describes the depression developmental process as follows: “Depression is a lot like that: Slowly, over the years, the data will accumulate in your heart and mind, a computer program for total negativity will… Continue Reading →

LIfe shouldn't be about waiting for death — 2CEUs

I saw a homeless man, hunched over, in what appeared to be his attempt to ward off the cold wind.  I called out to him, but he either didn’t hear me or wasn’t aware of my existence.  I came within… Continue Reading →

Education should lead to a sense of power — 2CEUs

An oppressive leader or teacher will have as his followers or students people who believe that life is a living death.  When a person does not see life as a mission to fulfill, “he or she is a person who… Continue Reading →

What is the purpose of education? 2CEUs

There was a time when  I had no real answer for the question, “What is the purpose of education?”  THe answer seemed to me to be both obvious and circular: The role of education was to educate students.  However, I… Continue Reading →

You need to read this important book — 2CEUs

Very few books have real power.  Very few books can transform a reader.  Very few books can transform an educational system. Joan Wink’s, Critical Pedagogy, Notes from the Real World, is one of those very few books. Critical Pedagogy utilizes… Continue Reading →

Like it or not, we are all connected

I’ve spent hours watching spiders spin webs, wait, and then blast anything that lands in those webs with a shot of venom.  Maybe I need some hobbies, but spider watching is among the most beautiful sights in nature to me. … Continue Reading →

To Hell with bad juju — 2CEUs

When looking out into the ocean, I can’t help but feel overwhelmed.  I know that if I tried to swim out into its unknown secrets, I’d be swallowed and I’d never return.  Can get to me: I have no that… Continue Reading →

Petey the dog ain't just another loudmouth — 2CEUs

Every time I run through a particular alley, there’s this little dog that attacks me from a hole in his fence.  His head pops through and his vicious round head snaps at me.  There’s really no way he can reach… Continue Reading →

We all should have a personal ethics statement — 2CEUs

My sense of ethics grew from an early experience that happened when I was around nine years old.  Considering the fact that I had started catechism four years prior, it would seem that religious education would have drilled some sort… Continue Reading →

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