Does trauma healing have to involve painful and lengthy therapy that forces patients to revisit their worst moments? Or, as Jon Connelly claims, can profoundly effective therapy be fun, light, non-threatening – and fast?
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Peter Singer pretty much launched the animal rights and animal welfare movements in 1975 with the publication of Animal Liberation. Forty-eight years later, he’s got a revised edition coming out: Animal Liberation Now.
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How can we create workplace cultures that include all of us, when there’s still so much sexism, racism, and systematic fuckery in organizations?
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Mark Goulston, MD, shares how to engage in healthy conflict, control your anger in tough situations, and defuse tension with “surgical empathy” and “radical patience.”
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Humans aren’t the only beings that talk to each other. Whales, elephants, bees, corals, unhatched turtles, and even plants and fungi use sound waves to connect and coordinate. Can we begin to understand them, and talk back?
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How can you get what you want out of life if you’re too scared to ask for it? A negotiation expert shows to be tough and kind at the same time.
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Our bad habits can have deep roots, and superficial solutions only cause more distress. How can we pull out dysfunctional behaviors at the roots?
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Are you right in a world where almost everyone else is wrong? If so, do you know how to speak, strategize, and organize to change people’s minds? Todd Kashdan has studied what makes some people incredibly effective at significant social change.
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Set an example. Don’t be a snowflake (or a bully). Don’t get sucked into social media. Simple advice for challenging times.
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Can you be an effective negotiator if you’re kind and mild-mannered? Or do you have to bully others to get what you want?
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