And…here…we…go!

Anxious. Excited. Overwhelmed. Inspired. These were some of my feelings after finishing our Spring 2022 Welcome Orientation.

Seeing what we’ll work towards and accomplish over the next 12 months initially felt like a lot; however, each class’s objectives and how we’ll successfully reach our end goal reassured me. I also appreciated hearing how others are feeling and getting a high-level understanding of the program’s teaching philosophies and models.

A tidbit that stuck with me was from Brené’ Brown video’s on sympathy vs. empathy stuck with me. I will on to her quote “rarely can a response make something better”.

One response to “And…here…we…go!”

  1. Thank you for starting out with describing your cocktail of emotions! I recently read Brené Brown’s Atlas of the Heart and was concerned about the state of our society when I read that in surveys taken by 7,000 people over five years, Brown and her team found that on average people can identify only three emotions as they are actually feeling them: happiness, sadness and anger. In her book, Brown maps 87 different emotions – all are different and make us human beings! Accurately naming emotions helps us reflect on them and potentially moving some issues from subject to object ….

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