Positive Living Newsletter

Evolving Meaning of Work (MOW) Theory for High Performance

Shizuka Modica

Posted May 16, 2018

Changing Environments Over the past decade, “meaningful work” has become a phrase I see more frequently in management and leadership circles. Google Scholar searches for the term “meaningful work” yields 16 items between 1981 and 1990, 38 between 1991 and 2000, 140 between 2001 and 2010, and 297 between 2011 and 2018. I am quite […]

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Creating a Positive “Can Do” Attitude for the Future

Empowering Individuals and Organizations to Excel in Growth While Delivering Sustainable, Accountable, and Excellent Work

Eileen Dowse

Posted May 16, 2018

Using a model researched and developed by Human Dynamics Inc., entitled The Agile Business Leader (ABL) Leadership Development Program, this session is designed to provide leaders with a primer on practices and tools for functioning in a world of complexity, chaos, interdependency, and ambiguity. This leadership development program creates strategies for success by leveraging existing […]

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Featured Member: Rachel Newton, RTC, MTC

Evolution of a Career Counsellor and Coach

Rachel Newton

Posted May 16, 2018

When I started my private practice as a Career Counsellor in 2011, I could not have anticipated the journey I was embarking on. Having worked with a Career Coach as a client in 2009, my hope was to step off the career carousel I had been riding for the past two decades. That carousel had […]

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Featured Member: Janeta Fong Tansey, M.D., Ph.D.

Janeta Fong Tansey

Posted May 16, 2018

My life’s work has been an intellectual, creative, and lived exploration of healing and existential meaning at the intersections of mind, body, and dialogue. Provocative questions in medical ethics brought me to the fields of philosophy and medicine, but it was sitting with patients as a psychiatrist and listening to their life-stories that invited a […]

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Meaning Therapy and the Toronto Van Attack

Paul T. P. Wong

Posted May 15, 2018

On May 6, I did a one-hour interview at the Fairchild TV Studio in Richmond Hill, Ontario, for their program Leisure Talk (大城小聚), which features special guests discussing topics of interest to the Chinese community in Canada. My topic happened to be meaning therapy as a way to help people live better and happier lives […]

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