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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…
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A Look Within

Personal vulnerability can be very hard to practice. Often, it requires a certain level of discomfort because you have to acknowledge your shortcomings. Let’s face it—admitting our weaknesses isn’t easy. True vulnerability takes it further…
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Acknowledging Our Biases

All of us are biased. In fact, says Rachael Frame, occupational psychologist at Work Group, “you’re not a human being if you’re not naturally biased in some way.” Most of us do not recognize our biases and therefore make judgments based…
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Communication ABC’s

Effective Communication Communication seems like it should be simple, however when not done well, the result is often misunderstanding and conflict. Communication is not just talking, it is an exchange of symbols, all of which are open…
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Intuition: Following Your Gut Feeling

in·tu·i·tion int(y)o͞oˈiSH(ə)n/ noun The ability to understand something immediately, without the need for conscious reasoning. A thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning. We…