One benefit of maturity—the joy of learning something new!

One benefit of maturity—the joy of learning something new!

By Caroline Hall Learning for its own sake (unfettered by talent) In last week’s blog post, Michael McNeill wrote about the Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain workshop we took together—and how it helped us discover a new way of looking at the world. I’ve had a few...

Seeing the World Through a Different Lens

By Michael Karr McNeill Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain OK, so my wife and I are not planning to move to France and sketch the River Siene while admiring passers-by vie for our output. That said, Caroline has wanted to take a “Drawing from the Right Side of the...

A Surprising Way to Reduce Stress

By Katherine Olivetti One of the wonders of being alive today is brain research.  Many ideas that we have intuitively believed to be true are now being documented with hard scientific facts. It is well known that receiving social support is associated with reduced...

Redeploying Your Mastery for the Next Stage of Life

By Caroline MacNeill Hall I went to the touring show matinee “A Night with Janis Joplin” last Saturday. The show was celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Summer of Love in San Francisco that launched the hippie movement in 1967. The whole audience was 16-28 then...

Reviving Imagination

By Katherine Olivetti In thinking about creating the next chapter of your life, one of the essential tasks is reviving the imagination. For many folks adult life hasn’t been conducive to that task.  Assignments, routine protocols, supervising staffs, executing...