Tag: self help

Hiking Life’s Appalachian Trail

Susan Cabrera

Dec 14, 2014

Life is an interesting and complex journey full of twists and turns, highs and lows, and unexpected adventures. Susan Cabrera will compare life experiences with a hike on the Appalachian Trail, and invite audience participation. Susan has a master’s degree from Stanford University in Counseling Psychology with emphasis in behavior modification, and has worked in several different capacities at Stanford. She is also an executive management consultant, author, and lecturer. Her non-spiritual poetry book “Life in the Fast Lane” will be available for sale at this event.

 

Humanist Community Forum (2014-12-14): Hiking Life’s Appalachian Trail (Susan Cabrera) from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.
 

Seven Ways to Boost Creativity, Health, and Well-being

Dr. Michelle Chappel

Dec 7, 2014

 

Michelle Chappel
Michelle Chappel

Research shows that enhancing creativity improves our well-being. Getting the creative juices flowing lessens anxiety, boosts physical and mental health, and makes us better problem solvers. This interactive talk will present seven keys to unlock creativity based on a unique blend of psychology, Eastern philosophies, and success stories from the speaker’s workshops over the past 18 years. Participants will learn how to hone their creative skills, reduce stress, gain greater life-work balance, and lead more fulfilling healthier lives. (See www.michellechappel.com)

 

On Parenting a Human with a Non-binary Gender Identity

On Parenting a Human with a Non-binary Gender Identity

Phil Crawford

Oct 05, 2014

 

Phil Crawford
Phil Crawford

Phil Crawford, a member of Bay Area Humanists, will share his experiences since his kid came out as genderqueer.

He will discuss gender as an identity matrix and what it means to be an ally to the trans and genderqueer community.

Among other sources of information he has accessed is a Gender Spectrum Conference – an annual Bay Area conference for health and other service providers and families of transgendered youth – which he and his wife attended last year.

Humanist Community Forum (2014-10-05): On Parenting a Human with a Non-binary Gender Identity (Phil Crawford) from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.

Moving Through Difficult Conversations

Moving Through Difficult Conversations

Paul Hebert

Aug 17, 2014

Paul Hebert (Case Manager for the Palo Alto and Los Altos Mediation Programs, www.paloaltomediation.com, which are administered by Project Sentinel, www.housing.org) will briefly describe the services available through Project Sentinel and the Mediation Programs. Then he will describe the key elements of communication skills which mediators model and support to help resolve conversations that have gotten off track. He and a panel of other mediators will then take questions from the audience about challenging communication scenarios they have experienced, and describe how a mediator would approach those conversations.

For a copy of Paul’s handout provided at the forum click here

Humanist Community Forum (2014-08-17): Moving Through Difficult Conversations (Paul Hebert, Jeffrey P. Blum) from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.

Me and My Ego

Me and My Ego

Laura Mappin

June 8, 2014

Laura Mappin

The ego is the hardiest of all weeds — Robert Grant, author of Way of the Wound, http://amzn.to/LhZ4TZ

What kind of relationship do you have with your ego? How did you even get to learn that you had one? How do you manage it? Do you manage it? What tools or perspectives do you use?

For the first half of this forum, Humanist Community member Laura Mappin will share her trip in getting in touch with her ego and developing ways to manage it that now work well for her. This trip didn’t involve any religion or other pop self-help methods since she was quite wary of them.

For the second half, attendees will be invited to respond and share their stories along this topic.

 

Humanist Community Forum (2014-06-08): Me and My Ego (Laura Mappin) from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.