You get buy-in from everyone in the company because all involved feel they have an influence. The techniques employed in appreciative inquiry have since been used in other settings, including marriage and family therapy, as a way to help family members identify and achieve their dreams. In the therapy world, the correlating movement is called strength-based therapy. Read more
Archive for Children
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Dec 2011
What You Expect Is What You Get Part (2)
09
Dec 2011
What You Expect Is What You Get
A growing number of studies from institutions, including Yale, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Mayo Clinic, suggest happy people live longer. Attitude really does make a difference, and in a stepfamily it can make all the difference. Read more
05
Dec 2011
When You Cannot Have One Part (4)
Some women are unable to conceive. Sarah and her husband tried for years to have a baby, but to Sarah’s eternal disappointment, she was unable to get pregnant. It was the same for Cosette. She and her husband went to fertility doctors for help, with no result. Read more
01
Dec 2011
When You Cannot Have One Part (3)
When they met, he already had four children from his first marriage. He had absolutely no desire to have any more and told Cheryl that upfront. “Deciding not to have a baby of my own was intellectually easier than coming to terms with it emotionally. That was the hardest part for me. I had to mourn that I wasn’t going to have a child of my own. I had to express that loss.” Read more
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Nov 2011
When You Cannot Have One Part (2)
Early on she had decided that if she wasn’t married and pregnant by age 35, she wasn’t going to have a baby. “I went through a natural grieving process knowing that I was probably not going to have biological children,” she says. Read more