Mindfulness is a practice of minding our breath, our feelings, our thoughts and the flow of consciousness that binds us to each other. To be mindful is to engage with compassion, to savor our experience without hoarding it. Minding does not transcend the body; it honors the body. See why The Relational Center advocates engaged
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Visit The Relational Center’s Education site to find out more about our new curriculum to support our “Skills for Engagement” initiative. Our newest project will develop a broad public education vision, bringing support and resources to communities of all kinds to build social resiliency, enrich relationship networks and confront the effects of isolation. The Relational
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Social Health: Information from Answers.com. For anyone unsure about the phrase “Social Health” this short blurb linked above from Answers.com will explain enough. I love this phrase and have started using it on a daily basis since it resonates with my ideas of a holistic lifestyle that includes mental and physical health as well. I certainly
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In the spirit of the recent wave of encouraging videos (literally, intending to bestow “courage”) of credible speakers offering a vision of a hopeful future to LGBTQ youth who experience daily torture at the hands of bullies, I would like to make a slightly different remark. In my experience (which includes daily torture, usually witnessed
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Join us along with our Conversation Host, Gordon Wheeler, and a team of distinguished international conversation leaders as we gather in Los Angeles, March 18-20, 2011, for an unprecedented conference experience. Visit the conference website.
John T. Cacioppo’s research looks at the connections between the social and neural mechanisms underlying human behavior. He investigates how societal influences and personal relationships affect cognition and emotions…
