The Neuroscience of Gratitude
Yeah, gratitude is awesome … but does it really affect your brain at the biological level? Yup. You know what the antidepressant...
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- Jan 2, 2021
- 11 min
Relationship Design in Uncertain Times
What If Your Relationships Felt as Graceful as Fred and Ginger? Contentment Magazine, Winter 2021 by Maureen K. McCarthy, Co-Founder, The...
- Sep 26, 2020
- 7 min
There’s a Problem with Problem-Solution Thinking. The Solution: Stop Using It
I have a problem on my mind right now. It’s running around in my head like a virtual roulette wheel waiting for the ball to drop
- Sep 26, 2020
- 11 min
Worry vs Care: Is Stress a Warning or Message?
I had two very interesting Zoom calls this week. The first one was with a colleague who was overwhelmed by the uncertainty
- Sep 13, 2019
- 6 min
What if Your Relationship is Currently Under Stress?
As a rule of thumb, Blueprint of We Collaboration Documents are not written with someone with whom you are currently not at peace. They...
- Sep 8, 2019
- 3 min
Micro-dosing Other People to Rewire Your Brain
That noise in your mind is actually a messaging system not a warning system. Use your stress to upgrade your brain. We crave human...
- Aug 27, 2019
- 3 min
Desire-Innovation Thinking: Moving beyond problems and solutions
Problem—Solution Thinking is Our Default Mode Our world was built using Problem-Solution Thinking, which encourages the brain to focus on...
- Aug 27, 2019
- 1 min
DEFINITION: Collaborative Awareness
kəˈlabərətiv əˈwe(ə)rnis noun Two or more entities working in concert to create a continuous and nearly instant feedback loop of group...
- Aug 27, 2019
- 1 min
How do we do this fast-paced dance without stepping on each other’s toes?
The InterchangeableDance of Leader & Follower Traditional rules of hierarchy are blurring everywhere. We’re experiencing the unstructured...
- Aug 27, 2019
- 1 min
Custom Design Required
The people, the work, the timing are all highly specific to each collaboration. In a world where traditional roles and rules are either...
- Aug 27, 2019
- 1 min
STORY SPOTLIGHT on the Center for Collaborative Awareness Impacts
STORY 1 Impact: A global, pharmaceutical, 100+ member, virtual team deepened their client knowledge exchange and social connection to...
- Aug 27, 2019
- 1 min
Flashlight in a Dark Cave
Stress is like a blinding light in a dark cave. You're stranded in the pitch black and someone comes upon you and shines a huge...
- Aug 27, 2019
- 2 min
The Blueprint of We Collaboration Process
The Blueprint of We is a co-written design document
and an ongoing collaboration process and tools that build trust and reduce anxiety.
- Aug 27, 2019
- 2 min
5 Keys Ways to Quiet the Safety Brain
The Safety Brain is our first and main mode of interaction with the world, keeping the Connected Brain as a secondary mode.
- Aug 27, 2019
- 3 min
We Are Wired to Connect: The Neuroscience of Collaboration
Our brains have two main functions that have emerged through millions of years of evolution—to connect us for growth, and to keep us safe. W
- Jul 2, 2018
- 9 min
The Collaborative Brain Toolkit
Over years of working with groups around the world, we have found three essential elements are necessary for groups to thrive.
- Sep 6, 2017
- 6 min
The Business Case for Collaboration
Smart collaboration generates profits, loyalty, talent and innovation. So what are you waiting for? By Heidi Gardner from Communication...
- Jun 4, 2016
- 3 min
Speak with Kindness: How Your Words Literally Restructure Your Brain
The following article speaks so clearly to how our words can directly change the way our brains are wired. This is why the first...
- May 9, 2016
- 1 min
Don't Look for Me Here
don't look for me when I go silent, for you may not find me here - where there are only dams and white water, turning wheels for...
- May 9, 2016
- 1 min
The Rim
the rim come to the circle, where we each hold the rim; let's share our stories, of fear and joy, grief and love, shame and...
- May 9, 2016
- 1 min
I Stepped Out and Made Friends with the World
by Priya Desikan, Certified Facilitator Up until today, I saw letting down my defenses and staying open, as letting in the world.....but...
- May 7, 2016
- 1 min
Waiting for Skin to Feel Skin
Sometimes I walk around with a hole in my head; a gaping hole filled with people and stories of lives watched, and digested ...
- Mar 1, 2016
- 4 min
The Blueprint of We: 5 Ways to Master Collaboration
Maureen McCarthy should have been dead 15 years ago. Doctors gave her just a few months to live after diagnosing McCarthy, an...
- Feb 10, 2016
- 9 min
No More Conferences!
Engage all the knowledge in the room
I flipped by an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation the other night. In the opening, a group of officers are returning to the ship...