As part of a recent prompt to elicit visionary descriptions of an ideal future world, @kennyskitchen observed, “most folks can give you a list of things that they want to see an end to, problems they see

I've been giving a good deal of thought to equity, how it differs from equality, and what it might look like as a guiding principle in my life. I'd like to share an example of a way in which equity has

Understanding that, as one of my professors recently mentioned in a presentation about the neuroscience of othering, “negative emotions trump positive ones and weigh more heavily in our evaluations of

Welcome to the sixth installment of Tuesday Musings on the Tao Te Ching, a weekly series where my partner @TheLynx & I take a look at the Tao Te Ching (pronounced "Dao/Dow De/Day Jing"),

Welcome to the fifth installment of Tuesday Musings on the Tao Te Ching, a weekly series where my partner @TheLynx & I take a look at the Tao Te Ching (pronounced "Dao/Dow De/Day Jing"),

For most of this year, I have had some level of confusion, some level of just not knowing, around what is next for me. For a few years I had a really simple & clear mission & description for myself.

A skillful mediator or dialogue facilitator can recognize the power dynamics present in a room and call attention to them, inviting participants to bring their power to bear on the conflict at hand in

Welcome to the fourth installment of Tuesday Musings on the Tao Te Ching, with a weekly series where my partner @TheLynx & I will be taking a look at the Tao Te Ching (pronounced "Dao/Dow De/Day

As the natural world turns inward with the coming of autumn, the leaves falling from the trees and the annuals turning to spindly brown ghosts of their wild summery selves, it seems timely to think about

There are a lot of things in this world that are not as we wish for them to be. In thinking about how to answer the bi-weekly question from the @TribeSteemUp community, organized by @Trucklife-Family,

Welcome to the third installment of Tuesday Musings on the Tao Te Ching, with a weekly series where my partner @TheLynx & I will be taking a look at the Tao Te Ching (pronounced "Dao/Dow De/Day

Portland is a great city to live in if you like food, and being fully stocked with food service jobs and adorable hipsters, it's also got its fair share of inattentive, negligent, or dismissive service.

I know we're all up to our ears in Brene Brown, but if you haven't seen this video clip, in which Brown differentiates guilt from shame and speaks to shame's role in destructive behavior, here's your chance

This was planned to come out yesterday, but as you all know the STEEM blockchain had another "successful" hard-fork that stopped 99.9% of us from interacting with it in any way... So here we

Engaged listening is one of the most important and foundational skills that I return to again and again in learning about and teaching interpersonal relationship and conflict resolution skills. In co-leading

Greetings beautiful Steemians! Today is the Autumnal Equinox here in the northern hemisphere, and the Vernal Equinox in the southern. No matter which side of the planet you're on, the Equinox is a powerful

I think a lot about harm, the reparation of harm, and our roles and responsibilities as those who have been harmed, who harm others, and who witness harm. One of the most difficult ideas I wrestle with

I was asked yesterday what kinds of warning signals my body and brain send me when the first signs of overwhelm start to creep in around the edges. This seems like an important question to keep in mind

My name is Lindsay, and I want to better understand what it means to be human: What do we value and why? How can we live more in alignment with our highest values? How do our values give rise to our actions?

For some time, I've been wanting to do create more periodic, sequential content... and it hasn't really happened yet. I've also been wanting to get more collaborative projects going. I decided to get started