Lovely quote from David Kundtz: Stopping is doing nothing, as much as possible, for a definite period of time. Many more great quotes at Stopping: How to Be Still When You Have to Keep Going.
The gales of November come lashing. # Lovely train ride down to Seattle, working with my friend Teresa and following the midterm election carnage. # #openspace today w/ top researchers and policy people on adverse childhood experiences with an eye to making big policy changes in WA state. # Working at Cederbrook Lodge near SeaTac airport. Lovely space, free wifi, all the tools for a good #openspace http://bit.ly/cSeIdZ # Did you see the moon this morning? A thin shaving, old month fading, dying into a brilliant autumn sunrise. # At a Casey Foundation conference in Seattle on applying science to …
In Seattle yesterday I was listening to a keynote by Dr. Jack Shonkoff who is a breain researcher at Harvard with an interest in early childhood development. He said an interesting thing about American health care which kind of answers the question for me about what the US is good at. Many Americans who are opposed to public health care use the argument that people from other countries come to the United States for the world’s best treatment, surgery and acute care. No question that if you can afford it, the USA has the best. BUT – and this was …
Silo busting is a very interesting thing. Everyone knows that systems atrophy when they divide their work into silos. Silos entrench difference and prevent learning across sectors whether we are talking about departments in an organization, or a social system like health care or child and family services. Silos have limited usefulness. They divide work into manageable chunks. But in general they create reductionist responses to systemic problems and they pose a massive challenge to people working nfor change. If we first have to bust the silos, and only then can we address the problems, how do we know we’ll …
I’m at a Casey Family Programs conference in Seattle that is looking at applying science to early learning in kids. The people here are learning about brain science and the results of early adverse childhood experiences and what the science can tell us about how we should react in the policy sphere to create healthy kids, families and societies. The keynote is by Jack Shonkoff, who is a leading brain researcher in this field and who has been sharing some of the basics of what we know about brain science, relationships and healthy societies. Here are some of his key …