There’s no place like home. Except, that is, for immigrants trying to reestablish a sense of self, community, and purpose amidst an entirely changed landscape. For them, home can be as disorienting and uncomfortable as the journeys that led them there. Gladis Alarcon shares her story of immigrating to America from El Salvador and discusses […]
Waiting for my flight this morning at Paris CDG airport, I noticed a large advertising monitor. A track and field athlete was crouched at the center of it, ready to surge off the starting block. What caught my attention wasn’t the athlete herself; after all, we’re days away from the start of the Olympics, and […]
When I was studying journalism in graduate school, Pulitzer-prize-winning professor Dale Maharidge had us read a bunch of Tolstoy. Not his essays or journals, but his fully-fledged fiction. Interesting, don’t you find, for a journalism class? I don’t remember which novels we had to read or the details of the course, but I do remember […]
Our clients often shy away from sharing personal details in their short films. From their perspective, individual thoughts, feelings, and anecdotes are not relevant to the story they want to tell about their organizations, so they would prefer to leave the personal stuff out. It’s understandable but in our experience a major missed opportunity.That’s because […]
Educator Ellen Pritchard Dodge teaches social emotional development to help children learn to manage their feelings. Most educators agree that kids need the time and tools to learn how to get along, but many teachers feel too stressed to explore the possibilities. Dodge uses Kimochi toys as a way to boost patience, generosity and inclusiveness […]