The emotional recession is making every interaction harder. Discover five EQ strategies to rebuild resilience, trust, and connection at work and beyond. The post The Emotional Recession: Trillions of Dollars, Trillions of Heavy Days appeared first on Six Seconds.| Six Seconds
Parentotheca’s Newsletter Learn. Parent. Grow.Issue #4 – August 2025 👋 Hello Friends This morning I waved my kids off at the school gate and felt that familiar mix of relief and nostalgia. Relief, because finally my days have a bit more structure (my sanity was hanging by a thread). Nostalgia, because summer is gone: the […] The post The Secret Curriculum: What Matters More Than School This Year appeared first on Parentotheca.| Parentotheca
Knowing Yourself: Understanding Behaviour and Building Resilience Recovery from abuse doesn’t start with a perfect plan — it starts with a question: Why do I feel and act the way I do? For many survivors, behaviours that seem irrational or disruptive make perfect sense when seen through the lens of … Continue reading → The post Knowing Yourself: Understanding Behaviour and Building Resilience appeared first on Help for Adult Victims Of Child Abuse - HAVOCA.| Help for Adult Victims Of Child Abuse – HAVOCA
In life, change is inevitable. Your reaction to that change can dramatically impact not only your outcome but your success down the road. That’s why it’s crucial to focus on building resilience within yourself and your teams. Resilience is what gives us the strength to cope with the stressors and hardships around us and bounce... Read more » The post Blended Learning – A Key to Building Resilient Employees first appeared on Caliper Corporation.| Caliper Corporation
In this post, we explore advanced implementation patterns for building highly available services on Amazon ECS, including idempotency, resilience to transient failures, static stability across Availability Zones, deployment safety, and chaos engineering techniques. The post provides detailed guidance on how these patterns can be implemented when deploying applications on Amazon ECS to ensure maximum resilience and availability.| Containers
In a high-level dialogue between the CVF-V20 delegation and Members of Parliament of Sri Lanka last 28 August 2025, conversations centered on advancing the country’s Climate Prosperity Plan (CPP) with effective legal provisions, institutional commitments, and sustainable financing. Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte, Sri Lanka | 28 August 2025—The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka conducts a […] The post Sri Lanka Reviews the Sectoral Targets and Legal Provisions of its CPP appeared fir...| CVFV20.Org
Raj Kharel & Andrés Rodríguez-Pose pdf Abstract: This article examines the impact of three key components of devolution — government expenditure, internal revenue, and both conditional and unconditional transfers— on the economic resilience of Nepal’s local governments during and after the Covid-19 pandemic. Bridging the gap between the devolution and resilience literature, it focuses on […]| Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography
When columnist Dagmar Munn's special footwear began to wear out, she went shoe shopping — which required a certain amount of resilience.| ALS News Today
When tragedy strikes, it’s natural to be devastated. But psychologist George Bonanno finds that many of us recover from life’s blows more quickly than we might expect. This week, we talk with Bonanno about his research and why it has changed how many scientists think about trauma and resilience. Do you have follow-up questions or comments after […] The post The Trauma Script appeared first on Hidden Brain Media.| Hidden Brain Media
The best psychological advice I ever got came from a physical therapist who said: Nine times out of ten, chronic pain in one part of the body comes from weakness in another part. And the solution to that pain is strength, not relief. For close to a year, I was having pain in my left […] The post Emotional Strength Training appeared first on Nick Wignall.| Nick Wignall
Navigating the complexities of ADHD can be a challenge—if you often feel overwhelmed and discouraged, you’re not alone. Dr. Mark Bertin and Dana Crews explore ADHD-friendly ways to begin or deepen a mindfulness practice that helps you thrive while managing this complex medical condition.| Mindful
One of the early criticisms of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection was about how it could account for the development of complex biological structures. It’s often not obvious to us how the earlier forms of some biological organ would have increase fitness. “What use”, asked the 19th century English biologist St. George Jackson … Continue reading Easy will always trump simple→| Surfing Complexity
by Tamzin Ractliffe on LinkedIn...Here's the challenge this powerful formulation reveals: existing power structures are also extraordinarily resilient ...| omega.ngo
You can’t stroll far in the Beartooth Wildlife Management Area in Montana without bumping into signs of beavers. In addition to snacking on the cattails, they had chewed away at … Read more The post Wading in Water, Sharing Common Ground: Conservation Lessons from Beavers appeared first on The National Wildlife Federation Blog.| The National Wildlife Federation Blog
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius This isn’t a story about me falling on my face (although I have plenty of those stories) but a recent incident when my 6-year-old son, Mr. D, fell on his. Although I’m sure I echo the sentiments of … Continue reading When You Fall On Your Face→| Surprised By Joy
Disinformation. Misinformation. Malinformation. These terms get used interchangeably, but they’re not the same thing. That distinction matters when designing resilient infrastructure that supports trust. Most of our efforts to address these problems focus on content, activities like fact-checking, moderation, and takedown requests.| Spherical Cow Consulting
By Khaled Barakat – Aug 13, 2025 Perhaps the late Iraqi poet Muzaffar al-Nawwab was| Orinoco Tribune – News and opinion pieces about Venezuela and beyond
A glance at some of the economic headlines this week might suggest a gloomy outlook – whether because of concerns over the gap in public finances being bigger than we thought, another drop in construction activity, or internal uncertainty from the Bank of England over the latest rate cut. But if we look a little… The post A strong service strategy is also key for business customers appeared first on Institute of Customer Service.| Institute of Customer Service
Following the principle of inversion, here are 41 pieces of very bad emotional advice from psychologist Nick Wignall| Nick Wignall
The post A review of reports on Spanish blackout causes and solutions appeared first on Grid Strategies.| Grid Strategies
Parentotheca’s Newsletter Learn. Parent. Grow.Issue #3 – July 2025 👋 Welcome to July’s Newsletter Hello friends, Summer holidays are here, and I’ll be honest – we were all excited. The kids were buzzing about doing their own thing, and I was thrilled to hit pause on the whirlwind of clubs, homework, and afterschool meltdowns. And […] The post What If Boredom Is Exactly What Your Child Needs? appeared first on Parentotheca.| Parentotheca
Hold On to Your Kids Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers Dr Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Mate Vermilion; 2nd edition (3 Jan. 2019) Book | eBook | Audio About Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Maté Dr. Gordon Neufeld is a renowned clinical psychologist with over 45 years of experience specializing in child and youth […] The post Hold On to Your Kids by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Maté – Book Summary, Notes and Quotes appeared first on Parentotheca.| Parentotheca
The post The Returns on Resilience: A Growth, Stability and Competitiveness Agenda for COP30 appeared first on SYSTEMIQ.| SYSTEMIQ
“Surviving Sue” is celebrating a birthday – she’s officially two years old! Last week in a reflective moment I thought about the past two years and the enormous gratitude I feel for readers and their kind words, lovely reviews and comments. Whether it’s a call or an email outreach, my heart swells when readers connect. […]| Victoria Ponders
New research proposes a “geographic model” showing how perspective shapes meaning in life’s darkest moments.| Study Finds
It is deeply concerning to see abuse towards service workers continue to rise – affecting the 60% of the workforce.| Institute of Customer Service
by Nils Gilman in Small Precautions...In sum, Planetary Salutogenesis argues that the future of health cannot be carved from the body alone. It must be cultivated in the soil, seeded in the air, woven into ecosystems and institutions alike. It is not merely about surviving a sickened world — it is about becoming well together, or not at all. Our final line is unequivocal: “The future of health will be planetary, or there will be no future health at all.”| Omega
The reforms announced this week are intended to unlock growth for businesses across sectors, in particular those in financial services.| Institute of Customer Service
Last Monday, 7/14/2025, NPR ran an interview with a woman who lived through the flood on Texas’s Guadalupe River, a terrible story and I paraphrase: The flood blew down her back door and filled the house, water pressure wouldn’t let her open the door to her 95-year old mother’s bedroom, so she had to get […]| The Last Word On Nothing
Bastante se ha escrito sobre la experiencia y tribulaciones del migrante, sin embargo poco se habla sobre aquello que le permite mantenerse incólume y continuar su curso. Éste poema es un recordatorio precisamente de aquellas voces lejanas, voces que actuan como frazadas en las tormentas de la vida lejos de casa.| Jayson Salazar Rodriguez | @jdsalaro | Blog
While on a military campaign which started in 170 and ended in 180, Marcus Aurelius1 wrote his Meditations in Greek for his own guidance and self-development. The original title of the work, if it had one, is unknown. ‘Meditations’ – as well as other titles including ‘To Himself’ – were adopted later. He had a logical mind, and his notes were representative of Stoic philosophy and spirituality.| Jayson Salazar Rodriguez | @jdsalaro | Blog
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.| Jayson Salazar Rodriguez | @jdsalaro | Blog
In the third volume, chapter XXIII §1, of his discourses compiled by Arrian1, Epictetus2 gives his advice “to those who read and discuss for the purpose of display”.| Jayson Salazar Rodriguez | @jdsalaro | Blog
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Manila, Philippines | July 17, 2025—Lawmakers from the Philippines and Climate Vulnerable Forum and V20 Finance Ministers (CVF-V20) nations were called to take center stage in the fight against climate change, as the CVF Global Parliamentary Group (GPG) demonstrated its role as the legislative engine driving climate investments into climate-vulnerable countries. The GPG was established […] The post CVF-V20 gathers PH lawmakers to drive climate prosperity agenda appeared first on CVFV20.Org.| CVFV20.Org
MANILA, Philippines | 17 July 2025—Philippine Senator Loren Legarda vowed to advance legislative measures in support of the country’s Climate Prosperity Investment Memorandum. The move is meant to establish the policy and regulatory framework needed to crowd-in climate-smart investments and sustainable economic growth. “The CVF’s vision, articulated in the development of Climate Prosperity Plans, speaks […]| CVFV20.Org
I remember the first time a journal editor rejected my article. I sat staring at the email, feeling like someone had just deflated my academic “balloon”. I had poured my heart and soul into that ma…| Voices of Academia
Whenever someone new joins my newsletter, I send a note asking what their biggest struggle is right now. Here’s what someone wrote back recently: My biggest challenge is discipline. I give in to my cravings and I hate that about myself. Now, the standard psychologist response to something like this would be to talk about […] The post The Psychology of Craving appeared first on Nick Wignall.| Nick Wignall
In the third session of our Critical Conversations series (July 29, 2025), we will hear from Shakhnoza Muminova, a peace educator based in Ukraine. Drawing on her own lived experiences, Shakhnoza will share insights on maintaining hope in the face of adversity.| Global Campaign for Peace Education
Let’s play another round where contrast the root-cause-analysis (RCA) perspective to the resilience engineering (RE) perspective. Today’s edition is about the distribution of potentiall…| Surfing Complexity
How can we ensure tourism not only thrives but also helps protect our planet? This was the question at the heart of a recent UrbanShift webinar on nature-positive tourism, which brought together global experts and local leaders from cities, conservation parks, and international organizations. Moderated by Ingrid Coetzee, Director: Biodiversity, Nature and Health, ICLEI Africa, the webinar highlighted practical steps being taken to align tourism with nature conservation, while also creating ec...| CityTalk
How do cyber vulnerabilities impact modern warfare and statecraft? Craig Booth argues that the effectiveness of coercion, which relies on both the power to impose costs and the credibility of the threat, is weakened by vulnerabilities in digital and networked weapon systems. He joins host Darrell Driver to discuss how if an adversary believes they can hack, jam, or hijack U.S. capabilities, the ability to project power and influence their behavior diminishes. Booth notes that cyber risk is no...| A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast
Research suggests that when we turn towards pain and discomfort, we can experience less of it. Plus, Ed Halliwell offers a guided meditation for being mindful when things get tough.| Mindful
CVF-V20 Joint Multi-Donor Fund (JMDF) Purpose and Vision The Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF) and V20 Finance Ministers (CVF–V20) Joint Multi-Donor Fund is a pooled funding mechanism launched in 2020 to support 74 climate-vulnerable countries—home to over 1.7 billion people and 22.4% of the global population. The Fund is designed to advance climate prosperity, promote South–South […]| CVFV20.Org
Faced with geopolitical and climate-driven shocks, public-private collaboration can help future-proof our transport systems.| Transport Policy Matters
When writing up my impressions of the GCP incident report, Cindy Sridharan’s tweet reminded me that I failed to comment on an important part of it, how the responders brought the overloaded s…| Surfing Complexity
Doug Garnett wrote a blog post titled Complexity and Experimentation: The Rebellious Bee (12 June 2025). « Rory Sutherland tells a story about bees… Without rebellious bees the hive would be less r…| Articles of Interest
Takeaways from NationSwell's Leader Roundtable on Driving Climate Resilience: How Impact Teams Prepare Communities for a Changing World.| NationSwell
Don’t know where to start for foraging wild plants? Read on for the information you need to begin foraging on your own: where to do it and how to be safe.| Chelsea Green Publishing
Feeling overwhelmed running your business? Learn how to get support as a female entrepreneur feeling overwhelmed.| Shulamit Ber Levtov
Our politics right now are a disappointing wrangle between a politics of the past and managing the present. We deserve a bit more.| the next wave
The Institute of Regional Studies (IRS) hosted the 4th Annual Regional Dialogue 2025, in Islamabad on 5 May. The dialogue, titled ‘Pathways to Peace and Prosperity in Turbulent Times’ saw policymakers and experts calling for urgent regional cooperation in tackling the escalating climate vulnerabilities of South Asian countries. Emphasizing that Pakistan is amongst the world’s […]| CVFV20.Org
If you struggle with difficult emotions like anxiety, grief, or anger, you’ve probably heard that it’s important to process your emotions instead of avoiding them. But what does that mean exactly—process your emotions? Today, I’m going to give you a straightforward way to think about what emotional processing is and a simple—but extremely powerful—3 step […] The post The AVA Method: How to Process Emotions in a Healthy Way appeared first on Nick Wignall.| Nick Wignall
By Jade Garratt Which of these do you think might damage psychological safety in a team? The answer, of course, is that all of them can. Sometimes it’s individual behaviours that cause harm to the psychological safety experienced by members […]| Psych Safety
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra Think about a system whose reliability had significantly improved over some period of time. The first example that comes to my mind …| Surfing Complexity
Cash App, a leading peer-to-peer payments and digital wallet service from Block, Inc., has implemented resilience improvements across the entire technology stack. In this post, we discuss how Cash App improved the resilience of its compute platform built on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) by implementing a dual-cluster topology to reduce single points of failure. We also discuss how Cash App used AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS) to conduct an Availability Zone power interr...| AWS Architecture Blog
Hey there, fellow educators! Have you ever felt like teaching is like trying to juggle a dozen balls at once? Well, you’re not alone. Teaching is tough, and we face challenges every single day. From managing our classrooms to keeping up with new technologies and curriculum changes, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. But here’s the […]| Region 13's Blog
Acceptance as being critical for mental health and happiness and using techniques like acceptance and commitment therapy to be accepting.| Long Island Psychology
How do you know you’re entering a new season in your marriage? The sense that things are shifting can manifest in different ways.| Prepare/Enrich
Did you catch Daniel Abrahams’ latest – “Writing is Rewriting”? Oof! It’s the space I’m in right now and when I stumbled across his blog post recently, I felt li…| The Heart of the Matter
Research has shown that when flexibility is balanced, relationships more likely to last. Here are three big reasons why.| Prepare/Enrich
by Michael Lawrence...Like many other forms of systems diagrams (and network diagrams), CLDs are composed of elements and connections. But unlike many other ...| omega.ngo
While the percentage of companies impacted by ransomware attacks has slightly declined from 75% to 69%, the threat remains substantial.| Help Net Security
This blog post explores the concept of sisu and provides practical tips for incorporating it into daily life.| Wise & Shine
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by Heidi Larson in Myriad USA...Larson would like the GLP to play a role in a new approach to preparedness and resilience. “I hope that policymakers and pro ...| omega.ngo
by Andrew Zolli...I’ll be referring to resilience in the “property of systems and people” context noted above, to describe the (mostly) beneficial ability t ...| omega.ngo
Written by, Tracey Gerlach, MAPP, CTRS As the sun rose over the rugged mountains, Sarah laced up her hiking boots, ready for a day of adventure on the trails. Hiking had always been her escape, a way to connect with nature and clear her mind, and she needed to take a break. She’s been having [...]| Sunrise Residential Treatment Center
One of the criticisms leveled at resilience engineering is that the insights that the field generates aren’t actionable: “OK, let’s say you’re right, that complex systems ar…| Surfing Complexity
Are you a researcher with an idea that could help solve one of today’s most pressing problems? A conference in Dubai this […]| Social Science Space
You put lots of time and energy into planning what your family needs to grow and thrive. Can you say the same about your marriage?| Prepare/Enrich
The Norwegian concept of dugnadsånd, which translates to "community spirit," and emphasizes the power of collective action, cooperation, and selflessness.| Wise & Shine
Most of us realize that it’s important to be self-aware, but how do you actually improve your self-awareness?| The Friendly Mind
Much ink and light has been spilled over the backlash against ESG (which is shorthand for standards and ratings that measure performance on environmental, social, and governance value-bui…| Climate Value Exchange
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you’ll have noticed that I tend to write about two topics in particular: Resilience engineering Formal methods I haven’t found many people…| Surfing Complexity
If you’re running a small or medium-sized business there will inevitably come a time when you’ll have to adapt to some new circumstances. No matter how large or small a business operation you’re running, if you want to guide your team through change successfully, the easiest “metric” you can watch out for is your employee […]| Quantum Zeno
by Cat Tully in School of International Futures...I want to help us unstick from this present, apply a practical set of approaches to help our communities n ...| omega.ngo
by Susanne Moser, et al. in Climatic Change...In this paper we have tried to delineate – from a workshop and a literature review – fundamental differences i ...| omega.ngo
by Steven Ascher in his film Looking Forward...“W.H. Auden called the postwar era, ‘The Age of Anxiety.’ It seems we’re in another one now.”| omega.ngo
from Habitat for Humanity Cost of Home report...Rosensweig adds that Southwood has the potential to be a model for sustainable and equitable redevelopment o ...| omega.ngo
from The Strategic Foresight Book by IFRC Solferino Academy...Effective strategic foresight is an ongoing process. Developing the ability to monitor trends, ...| omega.ngo
by Tamzin Ractliffe on LinkedIn...Perhaps true resilience emerges when we stop asking "How certain are we?" and start asking "How adaptively ...| omega.ngo
If you struggle with negative self-talk—things like worry, rumination, or self-criticism—I’m going to share three of my favorite tips not just for getting relief from negative self-talk, but avoiding those negative self-talk spirals in the first place. [Watch or listen to the video version here →] A reader asks: I really struggle with negative self-talk. […]| The Friendly Mind
Should we be exposing ourselves to traumatic information in the news and social media and how to best cope with the psychological effects| Long Island Psychology
Raising a resilient teen isn’t always easy, especially when you see them struggling. It’s so tempting to step in and fix things for them—after all, you hate to see them frustrated or overwhelmed. But stepping back and letting them face those challenges is one of the best ways to help foster resilience in your teen.... The post Top 5 Ways to Foster Resilience in Your Teen (with examples of what to say) appeared first on Moms of Tweens and Teens.| Moms of Tweens and Teens
A Sermon for McAfee School of Theology Jeremiah 17 7 Blessed is the one who trusts in the Author of Life, …| The Rev. Wil Gafney, Ph.D. | Womanists Wading in the Word™
Different types of trauma people experience. Distinguishing little t versus Big T to help people at Long Island Psychology.| Long Island Psychology
If you're getting ready to spend time away from your spouse, you can prepare yourselves and your marriage to handle it successfully.| Prepare/Enrich
I just spent the last week in Lisbon, Portugal at the Resilience Engineering Symposium. Zoran Perkov and I were invited to speak on the topic of software operations and resilience in the financial trading and Internet services worlds, to an audience of practitioners and researchers from all around the globe, in a myriad of industries.| Kitchen Soap
in Futures Lab report in Horizon 2045...We look for evidence of the future that’s coming and in some cases is already here.| omega.ngo
Researchers from ISB’s Baliga Lab recently published a paper in the journal Frontiers in Marine Science, in which they identified a diatom-specific gene that may play a key role in predicting when diatoms might transition from a low/moderate to a high carbon dioxide environment. The post Genetic Switch May Predict Diatom Resilience in Acidified Oceans appeared first on Baliga Lab.| Baliga Lab
In a study published in Nature Communications, with implications for understanding effects of climate change, ISB researchers show microscopic phytoplankton are more resilient in an acidified environment The post Stress Test Predicts How Diatoms Will React to Ocean Acidification appeared first on Baliga Lab.| Baliga Lab
The post How to Avoid a Technology Horror Story appeared first on The Network Effect.| The Network Effect
I’ve been working with the rad team at Fly.io for the past few months as a fractional VPE, mainly focusing on management-y and culture stuff as the team grows. One of the things I really dig about Fly.io’s company culture is how teammates use their internal forum for sharing questions about work, project progress updates, oncall recaps, and other stuff that I’ve traditionally seen live (and die) in email inboxes. I’m finding that the internal forum helps keep conversations going async...| Lara Callender Hogan
Are you and your spouse in the roommate phase? You can wait around for the spark to reignite, or you can proactively reclaim the romance.| Prepare/Enrich
Owning and running a business can evoke a scarcity mindset. Do you ever find yourself saying anything like this? “I can’t invest in growth right now.” “We have to cut corners to stay afloat. “I’m overwhelmed with everything we have to do.” “I’m worried about the competition taking away our customers.” “I’m afraid to raise […]| Shulamit Ber Levtov
This is one of my favorite photos of my grandmother and me. She passed away last year on Good Friday, a synchronicity I think she would’ve loved. She was- complicated. Strong-willed, hot-tempered,… The post News Reports from my Grandmother appeared first on The Barefoot Beat.| The Barefoot Beat
Explore practical ways to help children develop resilience, fostering adaptability, emotional strength, and confidence to navigate life’s challenges. Support your child’s growth with simple, effective strategies| The Good Play Guide
What if we turned the year-end recap on its head and made it aspirational and forward-looking? What if we applied this to our marriage?| Prepare/Enrich
We may want to rethink what it means to experience trauma. We typically think of trauma as a significant, life altering event (or ongoing events) that are so significant, we cannot cope with it, and it causes potentially significant changes to our mental and emotional health. Examples include: These are all significant life events that […]| Long Island Psychology