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Simon Sinek on Great Leaders

Our work at MECC gives us the opportunity to work with many different organizations, teams, and leaders. This month we’re exploring what makes a leader a successful one. In his TedTalk, Why Good Leaders Make You Feel Safe, Simon Sinek explores…

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Recognizing and Understanding Your Triggers

To those who’ve been active in resisting the tumultuous transition of one White House administration to another, the word “trigger” might make sense. For others, it might seem irrelevant. Throughout the election and inauguration season,…

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What is Trauma and Why Does it Matter?

When you see “trauma” what comes to mind? Maybe you can still feel pain from your own past traumas. Perhaps you paint a picture of what you know it to be or what you think it might be. For some, we might think of personal, individual experiences,…

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Tools for Trauma

Capacitar, an international network working in more than 35 countries, specializes in teaching and sharing wellness practices to empower the citizens of the world. Inspired by their work, mission and dedication to wholeness, we are sharing some…

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Leading by Example: Talking about Race in the Workplace

As race relations in America gain nightly news attention, so has it inspired people to start talking, acting, and marching. The Black Lives Matter initiative is more than just a hashtag, and says less about race and more about inclusion, equality,…

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Happiness

At MECC we are committed to fostering our own happiness both in and outside of the workplace. This month, we invite you to take a step back, take a deep breath, and step into happiness. Here are a few tips to create habits of happiness: Concentrate…

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Micro-aggressions: Cause and Effect

As a part of our work in and commitment to diversity and inclusion, MECC offers various trainings from D&I Introduction workshops to bias trainings. These sessions offer opportunities to discuss how to create a workplace (and world) that…

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Portrait of a Peacemaker: David Steindl-Rast

Austrian born, David Steindl-Rast emigrated to America in the 1950’s with his family. Shortly after arriving, Brother David joined the Mount Saviour Monastery, part of the Benedictine community. He balances hermitic life with life on the…

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The Power of Story

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” – Philip Pullman The Power of Story We have the great fortune to hear a lot of stories. Each project tells its own…

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A Portrait of a Peacemaker: Mev Puleo

During my time as a volunteer English teacher in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, I hosted an overabundance of emotions. There were days when my purpose seemed so absolute, so certain. My internal desire to be present to the people and community…

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Portrait of a Peacemaker– Brene Brown

“Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous. Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change” In 2010 Brene Brown touched the TedTalk world with one word: vulnerability. To take Brown’s…

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Finding Your Strengths and Sticking to Them

In my final months as a college student, I remember being overwhelmed with the vast quantity of professional vocabulary that remained, although relevant and important, daunting and unfamiliar. We, the newly graduated, the naïve bunch who thought…