Equal parts serendipity and determination recently brought me the enviable gift of two weeks in Greece. I have wanted to visit the birthplace of western democracy, philosophy, and theatre for decades; I also desperately needed a vacation—a...

 Guest Post by Renée Cramer

When I left my first tenure-track job, my department chair reassured me that he had seen the moving coming.  “Of course you’re moving on.  You’re ambitious,” he said,...

Harken back with me if you will to your college days (or to anytime you were a student)—remember writing reflection papers? Like, dozens of them, every semester? Not only have I written hundreds of them in my lifetime, I have also assigned...

I had such a great personal growth moment this week with the participants in Wandering and Wayfinding (my virtual course on using values, strengths and purpose to navigate life’s ups and downs). This group is really connecting over the hurt...

Here’s a question that comes up a lot in my workshops and coaching—can our core values change? It’s an interesting question to me—on the one hand, the meaning of core values seems to imply some kind of innateness, or at the...

Do you know what your values are? This is a safe space, you can tell the truth. I’ll go first. Up until about a year ago I regularly heard people talk about making “values-based decisions” or saying things like “I put a...