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Please find attached the 2016 booklet for the Mobilizing Action for Resilient Communities (MARC) project, including Walla Walla, Whatcom and the other 13 communities that have been selected to participate in this 2 year learning collaborative. This is a great summary of the work happening in all 14 communities across the country. I am looking forward to working with the WA group as we grow so we can share your story!

Here is Dr. Brooks' sequel to the Emotional Climate conversation. Again, worth the read! Towards the end, he talks about how behavior becomes contagious, I love that image of us becoming more nurturant and supportive of everyone we interact with, and with the mirror neurons involved, we start to create a loving kindness behavior that becomes contagious throughout the community! I think this is what Laura Porter refers to as the self-healing communty, and that is what we are creating with the...

I wanted to share a newsletter from one of my favorite resilience authors, Dr. Robert Brooks. His topic supported Rick's post so nicely. http://www.drrobertbrooks.com/monthly_articles/emotional-culture-organization-part?utm_source=January+2016&utm_campaign=January+2016+Article&utm_medium=email

Recently I conducted a Google search for synonyms of emotional maltreatment. Phrases such as mental abuse and psychological abuse were fairly common. However, I also saw phrases such as The Quiet Killer and Invisible Violence. By any name, emotional maltreatment is destructive. Unfortunately, not all agree on what constitutes emotional maltreatment. On one hand, no one would deny that a child being called worthless repeatedly would be considered emotional maltreatment. On the other hand,...

Rick Griffin, Executive Director, Jubilee Leadership Academy (Prescott, WA) and I will help facilitate this group page by asking members to share what they find is “moving the dial” forward in their daily practice. For example, Rick will soon be posting thoughts on how we welcome all individuals to this effort, regardless of the specific experience we each have had in our own journey to this place. This movement, above all, is about that paradigm shift from fear to love , from...

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