I resonate with this so deeply. Going to dig into it further. Seems like it could be really supportive for both myself and the people I work with. Thank you for sharing 🤍

Sounds like you have a wonderful and inspiring dad 🤍 I hope to teach my kids the same one day

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What bothers me about academic and corporate D&I is that it focuses so heavily on political correctness and program pushing that it ignores the lived experiences of the people it claims to “empower”.

A few quick examples from my professional experiences:

Before breathwork and therapy, I worked in HR at IBM (wild in itself). I spent my first year as a D&I Strategy Partner focused on “career accelerator programs” for women and under-represented minorities. I then moved to the “non-inclusive behavior investigations team”, where I investigated employee-raised harassment concerns. Despite clear evidence, it was almost impossible to substantiate anything. Especially sexual harassment concerns. Interesting response from a company that claims to be so passionate about the advancement of women in the workplace.

Last weekend I had a three-day orientation for the MSW program at Michigan. We spent a LOT of time talking about pronouns, and exactly no time discussing the experiential realities of lgbt people. Considering the room was full of training psychotherapists, wouldn’t the latter be helpful for us to learn?

For an agenda so obsessed with accountability, there sure does seem to be a lack of it.

Open to that, that’s the point of the post. Approaching conversations with humility and being open to not knowing _can_ be more more impactful than coming from a place of authority. We always have more to learn

bro what

I don’t know.

‘Those that say, don’t know. And those that know, don’t say.’

What I’m working on is psychoeducation for high school/aged girls, so I don’t think the term anti-fragile would translate well in this context.

I haven’t heard of the term eustress. This is a super interesting concept, I’m excited to do some research. I can definitely relate to experiencing post traumatic growth, but we never hear it spoken about in therapeutic contexts. Thanks for offering this perspective

Love this perspective. Consider my mind expanded this Monday evening.

I’ve been working on a project where I refer to “mental-emotional resilience” as a key indicator of mental health. It didn’t feel right, so today I changed it to endurance. Not sure about that either.

I love the idea of striving for something greater than merely “getting through” hard shit, I.e. displaying resilience, and instead repurposing the experience to create something productive/sustainable, I.e. anti-fragile (whatever that means in context of said “hard shit”)

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BBC replicated the experiment in 2002 and found that group dynamics and leadership were major factors in influencing the guard’s treatment toward prisoners, I.e. void of leadership - the guards were not motivated to participate in violence or abuse toward the prisoners. It’s covered in the doc and easily found online. That’s why I used that specific language when responding to what conclusions could still be derived from the study. However, given the obvious flaws in the design of the study - I’m in agreement that we should default to not knowing.

Agree with you on this. The point I was making was that the study doesn’t prove that people are inherently evil when given access to power. Can see how my phrasing sounded absolute and appreciate the clarification.

Yes, when directed leadership, people have the capacity to do bad things- as we have seen historically. However, it is not an individual’s first nature to be evil, violent, bad (whatever synonym resonates) unless influenced. The current understanding of the study is that when given power, all people are bad, which is incorrect and harmful.

The phD who led the study rigged it to get the results he was after. A ton of issues with the study - the guards didn’t know they were subjects, he told the public there were no rules except no physical harm but he did a day of training to prime them to be aggressive, etc. highly recommend checking out the doc. Many of the subjects came back and share their POV

The Stanford Prison Experiment: Unlocking the Truth. Streaming on Hulu via National Geographic. Was just released last week on 11/13. It’s wild.

Am I the only one who didn’t know that the Stanford prison experiment was a complete scam? Looking back, it was referenced constantly in my social psych lectured in undergrad. Now I understand that it’s only so well-known because Zambardo was manipulating the scientific community and media to make money & gain power. Shocking!

Important reminder to be critical of “science” until it can be proven as _science_

And highly recommend you watch the doc on Hulu if this is new info to you too.

I haven’t been active on nostr lately for reasons largely unrelated to the application itself…

It’s no coincidence that I popped back on the day after the election. I had a feeling that people would be having honest, informed conversations here. I can point it to craving humanity over the msm driven illogical perception of collective tragedy.

My intuition was right. Nostr is a safe place to disagree, be curious, and communicate with authenticity. What a breath of fresh air.

What’s the nostr equivalent to primal for longer form writing?