By Carol Adams — 2020
To avoid missing out on the skills autistic people bring, companies can learn from the experience of improving gender and race diversity, where both direct and indirect discrimination act as a barrier.
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Our brains are hard-wired to make poor choices about harm prevention in today's world. But we can fight it.
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Through the practice of yoga, you can learn to hear—and follow—your inner guidance.
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You're searching for an answer, an insight. Then it startles you: Bang! Annie Gottlieb reports on Dr. Herbert Benson's electrifying concept.
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The strategies that children and youth use to resolve conflict change as they grow up. Stages of brain development are highly influential to both how children approach conflict and to the kinds of support adults can offer to build skills.
Whether it’s a high-tech company figuring out how to shrink its carbon footprint, or a local community trying to identify new revenue sources, people are continually dealing with problems that require input from others.
In every family, there will be problems. No matter how positive and empathic parents have been, kids will still argue and misbehave, and ask for more than they can have. The demands of our daily lives -- and of theirs -- will inevitably create conflict and misunderstanding.