After watching Brene Brown's talk, my friend Patti Agatston, a counselor with a school district in the Atlanta area and co-author of Cyber Bullying: Bullying in the Digital Age, added some helpful background: "I loved the talk as well. [Brown] alluded to my favorite quote from the psychologist Rudolph Dreikurs, "Have the courage to be imperfect." He studied under the psychologist Alfred Adler … [Read more...] about Addendum: Wisdom from a school counselor
Brene Brown
After a tragic shooting, help from a social work researcher
The angry, polarized state of American politics came up a lot in the news media over the weekend as we all tried to make sense of Saturday's tragic shooting in Arizona (e.g., here's a view from Europe). So when I happened to watch Brene Brown's 20-minute TED talk last night about "The Power of Vulnerability," I was surprised and grateful for her reference to politics at the end. It was a big ah-ha … [Read more...] about After a tragic shooting, help from a social work researcher