A friend posted this great video clip of Viktor Frankl on Facebook. What an extraordinary man he was, and what a treat to see him in action.
Frankl’s analogy of learning to fly and how he learned to aim ‘north’ to arrive at his destination, reminded me of my high school yearbook quote. In the 70s, [...]
Just when we thought we couldn’t take another heated public debate, immigration reform is up next in Congress. I can only imagine the nightmare scenarios, scare tactics, fear mongering and isolationism that’s going to be bandied about. So here’s a little something to balance the debate.
I.M. Pei, Madeline Albright, Albert Einstein, John Muir, Joseph Pulitzer, [...]
I asked my trainer and owner of Recreate Fitness, Nathan, if he would coach a “cross-fit club” with my 5th grade boys from the I Have a Dream foundation. It’s one of my kids and leadership clubs I’ve been doing. It’s definitely been fun, but also challenging. Some of the games and activities require technique, [...]
There’s a lot of interesting research out there on excellence and superior performance. What accounts for superior performance? Why are some people superstars at what they do, and others just average? The question is pretty interesting, not only for what it says about excellence, but more generally, what it says about learning and development. Gladwell’s [...]
There’s a problem in learning theory called “transfer.’ How does a student learn something and then transfer that knowledge or set of skills to the appropriate context? In common sense terms, how does book learning become a real world skill? I’m still waiting for algebra transfer to happen. My 9th grade algebra teacher, Mr Eastman, [...]
I’ve got the task of developing a performance evaluation process with and for faculty at the Process Work Institute. We’re a small training institute, and while we have had many different forums for feedback and evaluation, we’ve not created a standardized process that is tied to accountability.
It’s a tricky process. As a colleague pointed out, [...]
Julie Diamond, Ph.D. is a trainer, organizational consultant and coach based in Portland, Oregon. She has been working in the field of human and organizational change for over 25 years. Her work utilizes the Process-oriented model, which identifies and leverages the innovation and opportunities often hidden in challenges to growth.Contact Julie at julie@juliediamond.net.
Last week news broke that 15 year-old Phoebe Prince killed herself after months of harassment and bullying by her classmates at a South Hadley, MA high school. School administrators initially denied knowing anything about it, even though Prince’s mother had complained to school officials, and a renowned bullying expert had been called in to consult [...]
This past week I was in Yachats attending the Mindell’s seminar, and pondering the question they were posing, what moves you? Writing about motivation, leadership and learning, we can begin to forget this question and think that ‘I move myself.’ I decide. I lead. I determine a course of action, what strategies to take, what [...]
Last week the American Psychiatric Associations released a draft of DSM-V, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The final version is set to come out in May 2013. It has a number of proposed revisions which have been widely blogged about, including a new diagnosis of hypersexuality. In just about every post I’ve [...]
