Events & Programs
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Love Beyond Romance
“We need friends who wince along with our pain, who tolerate our gloom, and who allow us to be weak…
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Embracing Your Worst to Find Your Best
As children, many of us loved hating Cruella de Vil, the villain in 101 Dalmatians (the book or movie). As…
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Ritual Practices for Meaning, Connection, and Support
“Ritual is able to hold the long discarded shards of our stories and make them whole again. It has the…
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Writing—not just for writers!
You don’t have to wake up at ungodly hours, hunch over your keyboard, tap out hundreds of words, and then…
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Time
A warm sweater coat, wrapped around me like my grandmother’s arms, flapping in the wind as I…
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What is Fifteen Minutes?
Albert Einstein said, “Time only exists so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” Until recently, I took this time-is-just-a-construct attitude…
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Writing a Tribute or Praise Poem
Eulogies provide an opportunity to reflect on a person’s life, sharing who they were and what they meant to us.…
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Restorative Practices and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Lessons in Empathy
Restorative Practice is a global movement used to build restorative communities and strengthen relationships. The practice has its roots in…
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Readjusting to Socializing
Coming out of a pandemic has been one of the most challenging transitions I have ever encountered. I constantly hear…
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Regret, Self-Blame, and Learning to Give Yourself Grace
December tends to be a time where we look back over the past year.…
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Travel as a Restorative and Transformative Experience
As summer ends and we continue to return to life pre-pandemic, the busy lives we led…
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Restarting
In a yoga class I took twenty years ago, the teacher told us our bodies are different every day. So,…
