Category: General

Are We Friends?

In Chapter One, Building Healthy Relationships, there is a specific slide about appropriate boundaries. Typically, this

Happy Thanksgiving

Like many of you, I woke on Tuesday, November 8, 2016 with a sense of somber responsibility. Each task that I completed was

Being A Safe Person

One of the things that I have appreciated most about The Mandt System since I became an instructor seventeen years ago and

Life Animated

One of the perks of flying a lot is that on some planes I get to watch movies, and I look for unusual movies I’ve not seen

Best Laid Plans

We have all heard about the best-laid plans, and the fact they never work out as expected. Therefore, we should just plan that

United Flight 283 LAX to ORD

Last week I was at the departure gate for my home bound flight when the dreaded announcement was made by the gate agent "Flight

A FRIEND IN NEED: Practical Application of Maslow

This blog comes from the “teach back” performed by M.L. during a Nebraska event. It was an excellent narrative which helped

Turning into your parents…

Has anyone else ever opened their mouth and heard their mother coming out? Yeah, me too. When the heck did THAT happen? I

The Remarkable Resilience of Children

An article recently appeared in my new feed about a refugee center in Germany where children uprooted by war in Syria, Iraq, and

Today is a gift…

Last weekend, a 17-year-old young man lost his life in a car accident. I didn’t know him or his family, but from the