Guiding Beliefs:

Everyone experiences stress, anxiety, feeling depressed, overwhelmed, underappreciated… And Everyone—

Students, teachers, lawyers, nurses, principals, colleagues, mothers-in-law, rich people, poor people, religious people, atheists, meat lovers, vegans, pescatarians, really old people, really young people, tattooed people, tattoo-less people, the physically fit, the couch potato, CEO’s, cashiers, Republicans, Democrats, Europeans, Pacific Islanders, Southerners, Northerners, Midwesterners… Everyone deserves to feel better and live a more peaceful, joyful life.

Post-Traumatic Self-Growth

Whether it’s a personal tragedy we’ve been through or a global one, how do we come out the other side? Or don’t we? Do we spend the rest of our lives mired in the fear, anger, and sadness? Or are we able to rise out of it and take something from the devastation that actually helps us evolve and make our life better than before? Businesses did it during the Covid pandemic. Restaurants, out of necessity, created outdoor seating. Companies found a way to have meetings remotely and employees work from home. And what happened when the pandemic waned? Outdoor seating was so popular, restaurants created as much of it as they could. Companies wondered why they had ever spent millions on office space and business travel just for a meeting, and we all wondered why in the world we ever got dressed to sit in rush hour traffic. So, why go back to “normal”? What was so great about “normal”? We want to be better than that. We don’t want to be okay in spite of what we’ve been through individually and collectively. We want to flourish because of what we’ve been through individually and collectively.

Herd Healing

Remember at the height of the Coronavirus pandemic, once vaccines were introduced, that all you heard about was “Herd Immunity”? The idea was: Not every single person had to be vaccinated. If only enough people were vaccinated, we would all benefit.

Well, Herd Healing is like that. Every single individual at a company, organization, or school doesn’t have to directly learn these life skills for everyone to benefit. If a faculty meeting full of teachers, or a room full of parents, or a conference full of colleagues learn them— their thinking and attitudes will begin to shift for the better. In turn, not only will they begin to react and interact more positively with everyone—colleagues, students, bosses, employees, family, personnel— they will be eager to share what they learned with those around them and little by little, the entire environment of their department, school, business or organization will be positively impacted.