Fighting Despair with Connection:
Without connection, it’s easy for our fear to grow as exponentially as the Covid-19 infection rates.
Without connection, it’s easy for our fear to grow as exponentially as the Covid-19 infection rates.
A Growth Fostering Relationship is marked by the Five Good Things. Coined by Jean Baker Miller in her transformational book, Toward a New Psychology of Women. These are the qualities of a relationship that creates fulfillment and counters inauthenticity and inequity. They include:
As our 2019 Relational Summit grows nearer, we are excited to make a call for proposals for Works in Progress for our annual event on September 19-22. Relational-Cultural Theory has long had a practice of sharing “Works in Progress,” or working papers, as a way to facilitate continuous searching and… Read More »Call for Proposals 2019
Our second annual Relational Summit happens this September, here in Bloomington, Indiana. Preliminary schedule includes a poster session, Thursday evening, some in-depth RCT explorations on Friday and Saturday, and our keynote talk on Saturday evening. Harriet Schwartz is our guest for the weekend. Harriet is the lead scholar for Education… Read More »Save the Date!
No matter how much confidence she exhibited while offering home remedies for infant constipation and baby food recipes, she struggled with uncertainty. The matriarchal totem is full of mamas making mistakes while making meaning. I’m grateful for their wisdom.
What skills will we take into this unknown? If our kids will be growing up in a revolution, what do we need to teach them?