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by Adapt Training and Development January can feel like a big month for organizing. Receiving presents over the holidays may mean we’re juggling more stuff, and getting more organized in the New Year is a resolution many people make. It occurred to me that this is a good time for a little “mental organizing.” David […]

by Adapt Training and Development Thursday, December 21, is the Winter Solstice—the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. The word solstice is derived from the Latin, solstitium, which means “sun stands still” (source: Royal Museums Greenwich). This shift out of darkness and into the returning of the sun has been celebrated since […]

by Adapt Training and Development During a recent trip to the east coast, I spent a day with my dad. One of the things that predictably happens when we see each other is that my father tries to give me stuff and I try not to take it. My father is not a hoarder, but […]

by Adapt Training and Development In her lovely article titled “The Power of a Little Kindness,” Psychologist and author Gretchen Schmelzer writes: “We tend to think of kindness as being nice, but it is so much bigger than that. Kindness is being what is needed . . . it feels like something you can lean […]

by Adapt Training and Development Last year near the start of the war in Ukraine, we shared a message about how to keep our balance when the news is sad. With the massive suffering and loss of life among Israelis and Palestinians in recent days, we thought it might be helpful to share this message […]

by Adapt Training and Development I recently returned from a trip to North Carolina—a place that can be notoriously stormy in the summer, especially in the late afternoons and evenings. Big gray clouds roll in, rain lashes the screens and rattles the windows, and flashes of lightning alternate with big booms of thunder. Since Oregon […]

by Adapt Training and Development If you spend any time with middle schoolers, you have probably heard them pronounce something as “awkward.” I was reminded of this recently when I read a piece by author and educator Rachel Simmons about back-to-school. She was chatting with her daughter about making new friends and her daughter dismissed […]

by Adapt Training and Development I was chatting with a friend recently about hopscotch of all things, and she shared with me that once upon a time she had organized the International Society of Hopscotch. She forwarded some of the previous promotional content they had created (which sadly, is no longer available online). I found […]