August 2nd through 6th, I will once again serve as class assistant for Edith and Charles Seashore’s program, “Intentional Use of Self: Strategies and Skills for Consulting, Coaching and Change.” Edith Whitfield Seashore, M.A., specializes in Organizational Development and change and has over 40 years of experience training and consulting with corporations and government agencies as well as non-profits. Charles Seashore, Ph.D., is chair of the faculty of the doctoral program in Human and Organization Development of the Fielding Graduate Institute. Both are NTL pioneers and amazing people. This is my fourth time serving as their assistant.
We live in a world where change is constant, and yet we make little space in our lives for dealing with it. Even the most painful and significant events get swallowed up in our culture’s pervasive impetus to move on. Retirement, the loss of a job, a major illness, the death of a spouse or partner, the limitations of aging—these are but a few of the major transitions in our lives. They are also opportunities for growth.
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A 2005 article in the London Evening Standard about overwhelmed working women advised them “not to struggle into work when ill but to stay at home and rest.” Likewise, the November 2009 issue of Working Women magazine cautioned readers against “dragging [their] fever-ridden [bodies] into the office.”
Raise a glass half full to 2010!” said the headline. 
