By: Shonell Dillon on April 20, 2023
The Body Keeps the Score If you are a social worker, business owner, youth recreation director, community advocate, mom, and grandmother you probably already know that “The body keeps the score”. The body is a tell-all that you need to rest, stop, and sit down. The body has a true way of communicating with us…
By: Daron George on April 20, 2023
“The Body Keeps the Score” is a seminal work that has significant implications for leadership in the context of trauma. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk’s insights into the physical and psychological effects of trauma, as well as effective interventions and treatment strategies, are highly relevant to leaders who seek to promote the health and well-being…
By: Sara Taylor Lattimore on April 20, 2023
The book Sway by Pragya Agarwal has some very timely application for the ways that our unconscious bias can create significant obstacles and issues in our interaction with each other and with society. He addresses a number of biases and shares stories about how they have real world implications. For this blog I want to…
By: Caleb Lu on April 20, 2023
Book Summary In his book, The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk argues that trauma is not just a psychological problem, but also a physical one. When we experience trauma, our brains and bodies go into “fight-or-flight” mode.[1] This is a natural survival response that helps us to cope with danger. However, if…
By: Sara Taylor Lattimore on April 20, 2023
Ask Questions Learn More In the book Factfulness by Hans Rosling he passionately instructs his readers to consider new ways of thinking or certainly ways to avoid thinking. Rosling says “This book is my very last battle in my lifelong mission to fight devastating global ignorance. It is my last attempt to make an impact…
By: Sara Taylor Lattimore on April 20, 2023
Discover Your Label There seems to be a constant desire to understand one’s own personality or the personalities of those we interact with. The drive to understand what makes each other tick, why we would act in such a way, what motivates us to keep moving through this life has certainly intensified over time. There…
By: Scott Dickie on April 19, 2023
While a Lead Pastor does a bunch of other work outside of the pulpit, they can’t escape the fact that they speak for a living (unless they have a preaching pastor on their team). Most of us as Lead Pastors can struggle to be organized or do mediocre HR and still be in the congregation’s…
By: Russell Chun on April 19, 2023
Namatay si Alexa noong isang araw (Filipino) Alexa died the other day. My thoughts: Alexa died (intro) Impact on NPO 2023 – Facing the day. (Self Care) Treasure: Three outcomes, Rock – All the world is a stage, Ted talks, Book Reviews and Voice training. Alexa died the other day. When it snows in Colorado…
By: Kim Sanford on April 19, 2023
In my former life I can say with confidence that I’ve spent a significant part of my life reflecting on speaking and listening. In my former life as an ESL teacher, these were two skills that I taught regularly. And yet, they are challenging skills for an ESL student to improve. It’s less about memorizing…
By: Tim Clark on April 18, 2023
“Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak…” James 1:19 A big part of what I do every week is prepare for and deliver sermons and other public talks. So, all semester I was looking forward to reading Julian Treasure’s book How to be Heard: Secrets for Powerful Speaking and Listening[1] to pick up…
By: Pam Lau on April 18, 2023
“Our job, all of us, every single one of us is to make sure that the people around us, whoever they are, know what’s going on in the things that we love the most.”[1] Benjamin Zander, conductor of The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, spoke these words to Julian Treasure during an interview for his book, How…
By: Becca Hald on April 17, 2023
In his bestselling book The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, the author discusses the impact of trauma on the body. His groundbreaking research details the impact of trauma on the body. He writes, Trauma results in a fundamental reorganization of the way mind and brain manage perceptions.…
By: Kally Elliott on April 17, 2023
Noise vs. Sound In the middle of the night I picked up my phone swiped to Amazon and bought Decibel Defense Personal Safety Earmuffs. With an advertised “37dB NRR – The HIGHEST Rated & MOST COMFORTABLE Ear Protection for Shooting & Industrial Use – THE BEST HEARING PROTECTION…GUARANTEED”[1] I hoped this purchase would be the…
By: Jenny Steinbrenner Hale on April 17, 2023
Traumatic Experiences Leave Traces Psychiatrist, Bessel van Der Kolk, in his book, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, writes that in order to successfully treat psychological trauma, clinicians must consider the bodily symptoms experienced by the traumatized person.[1] Van der Kolk notes that though human beings are…
By: Greg McMullen on April 17, 2023
Being a pastor can be difficult at times, especially leading a multicultural church. It seems I am always offending a different culture and beliefs each month. Mentioning such words as Easter Egg Hunt, WHO, Economics, Enneagram, Vaccine, a person or culture gets offended and leaves. In all of this, I feel as if I have…
By: David Beavis on April 17, 2023
In a comedic, yet troubling scene in Pixar’s Inside Out the main character, Joy, who is named for the emotion she represents in the psyche of her human, Riley, knocks over several boxes while riding a train. Some of the boxes were labeled “facts” and the others were labeled “opinions.” After knocking over the boxes,…
By: Jennifer Vernam on April 17, 2023
“Remember me” On several occasions, I have had the privilege of working in Guatemala in villages of people who have been historically marginalized. Due to generations of political manipulations and societal injustice these groups of indigenous people have been relegated to the most barren and remote parts of the mountainous regions and are living without…
By: Travis Vaughn on April 17, 2023
As soon as I started reading Julian Treasure’s How to be Heard, a bit of low-grade anxiety snuck in. At some point, I knew I was going to come across the portions about speaking. See, the speaking parts of my job have always been a hurdle. I’ve spoken or presented in front of groups of…
By: Sara Taylor Lattimore on April 16, 2023
Abandoned at a hospital as a newborn baby, by a 25 year old mother who had a 5 year old son already and could not bear to keep another child, then placed into foster care until a plan could be made… This is how the story of my life began. Nameless, I spent time with…
By: Sara Taylor Lattimore on April 16, 2023
The year 2020 changed so much about our current world and the way we see the world and even exist in the world. The toilet paper shortage of the lockdown is one that many of us will remember for a lifetime and in years from not will still be the memes the bring both laughter…
