"We could change this whole world with a piano Add a bass, some guitar, grab a beat and away we go..." Academic (and musician) Nathan Leigh Jones takes these Ed Sheeran lyrics to heart as he explores how music can impact emotional wellbeing on this resonant new episode of We Will Get Through This with Michael Bungay Stanier . …see more

John Nemo shares our Q&A session talking about LinkedIn Ads. What works, and what doesn't. Check it out! https://lnkd.in/bJ_P3pr

The Eight Rules of The School of Life are worth reviewing daily. My favourite? It’s a tie between #3 Know Your Insanity and #4 Accept Your Idiocy. Enjoy this wise and entertaining video.

Want to learn about Summer Brain drain and what can stop it or decrease it? Yes, even now. See: (link: https://lnkd.in/eUWJRnw ) https://lnkd.in/eH_MH_e . Special thanks to @SRMiletto for his remarkable podcasts and work.

During a crisis we may think that self-care should be a top priority, but those who help others fare best.

Take five minutes to take in five science-based tips from Dr. Laurie Santos to help you weather this storm.

Feeling unmotivated and don’t know where to start? Start by taking my Productivity Style Assessment® and identify your strengths and how to leverage them to optimize YOUR performance! https://lnkd.in/evkGhxD …see more

Swordfish Communications arranged this terrific story about client South Jersey Pops' 50th anniversary and its holiday concert on Dec. 15. Thanks to reporter Carol Comegno and photographer Chris Lachall of the Courier-Post for their interest and the wonderful multimedia package! …see more

A great way to start off the week, here’s the Happiness Lab featuring Harvard psychologist Susan David with great advice on turning fear into courageous, value-based, action.

For those interested in saving Southern Vermont College, see below. And it was posted on Facebook (initially on some strange account that isn’t even mine!). And be wary of falsehoods being printed in the name of truth — on all matters, colleges included. …see more

The Mount played a pretty remarkable game last night against Georgetown. And, for the first 3/4 of the game, they had it under control and then the gas just left the tank. Free throws were not made, tightness set in and shots made earlier did not fall and Georgetown buckled down and hit their shots. Here's what this shows me: The Mount has a stunningly good coach; their Mount players will be doing 100's of free throw drills today; the Mount players will augment training for endurance play; and they will practice 1 minute drills again and again. As to GT, they can come back like this on a team that is unranked. But it is not an ideal strategy for sure for the long season ahead. And seeing Patrick Ewing coach: amazing actually: he was always calm on the court (my favorite Knick) and as I recall he couldn't make free throws too well. I liked his style of coaching. He was more animated than I ever saw as a player. He needs some new and better players. I'll bet he'll be able to recruit. All in all, good lessons here: the little guys are not so little; the big guys can't wait for the spigot to just turn on. College basketball is all about improvement. What a night. …see more

Let’s start over. This should interest those who speak two or more languages. Siri clearly went nuts.

In view of the school shooting today in CA, I just wrote the attached piece. I hope it is of value and interest. https://lnkd.in/dTDEB8j #trauma #schoolshooting #education #teaching …see more

What a world we live in? For traumatized students, this is about the worse that can happen, except physical punishment. Traumatized children often feel isolated and have struggles to attach. And this is how we treat them? And if a student were not traumatized, this would make them a trauma survivor. What has happened that we enable educators to behave in these ways? What is needed is a radical change in how we think about and execute on punishment and discipline. We often blame the child (or student) for what happened to them NOT what they did. Time for a change --- decades ago actually. Watch for my new book from TCPress June 2020 titled Educating for Trauma. In the meanwhile, yipes. …see more

Thought this piece on Gladwell's new book and strangers and trust might be timely .... https://lnkd.in/eDPPW4a Different kind of deflategate. Happy Holidays. …see more

My column about Buffalo Wild Wings' wild week of #PR disasters appeared today in Bulldog Reporter . #crisiscommunications

Mental health workers are particularly prone to burnout, but too often think that self-care is selfish.

For #ThrowbackThursday , to honor my friend Edna Adan Ismail and the 60th Anniversary of #Somaliland 's Independence, I share this photo gallery of images I captured two years ago, during my trip to #Hargeisa for National Geographic . Speaking for all of the #midwives Madame Edna has trained and all of the women and men, boys and girls she has mentored, nurtured and inspired, we salute her on this day. #Africa #globalhealth #midwifery #midwivessavelives #reproductivehealth #maternalhealh #nursing #YearOfTheNurseAndMidwife …see more

Thought this article might be of interest and ideally of use to those who deal with trauma within their organizations. https://lnkd.in/eFHUTCk …see more

Swordfish Communications generated this terrific article about our client WINGSforGrowth at New Jersey Business magazine . Have a worthwhile nonprofit that's doing great things and would benefit from media attention? Contact us! #PR #nonprofit #PublicRelations …see more