Lashon Hara: A Jewish Law that prohibits the use of true speech for a wrongful purpose. As Joseph Telushkin describes it: “any statement that is true, but that lowers the status about the person about whom it is said.” My Thoughts on the Walter Payton Article – My Childhood Sports Hero I’ve had a number…
The are cases where therapeutic treatment is invaluable. More often than not though, with teens in particular, they struggle with growing-up issues, not psychological ones. We live in a culture that is obsessed with self… obsessed with happiness… obsessed with comparisons against some sense of ideal of how life is supposed to be and how…
The Lady Who Talked Too Much & Shut Me Up I flew to Atlanta Friday to participate in a ritual coming-of-age ceremony of the 13 year old son of a client of mine. I wasn’t there to participate in his Bar Mitzvah service, rather to participate in a very unique and creative ‘Council of Elders’…
I have had an enormous response to the email I sent out earlier this week, announcing the Intentional Awareness Training, schedule for June 10-12th located in Novato, California. A number of you asked for more information, particularly about how this work applies to parenting. I think this timely story will bring it all home: A…
Jeffrey Leiken, MA Evolution Mentoring International A Tribute To Moms – Mother’s Day 2011 Today is Mother’s Day. I wanted to take a few minutes to write a tribute to Mother’s everywhere, but especially to my wife. I hope you enjoy this piece. Happy Mothers Day to all of you. In my business, mom’s…
I hesitated on whether or not to write this post. Then something happened yesterday that inspired me to write this out – once again.I’ve gone on and on about this over the past 5 years to the point where I sense people either are tired of hearing it, don’t want to hear it or just…
Introducing Girls To The Wonderful World Without Disney Half of the clients in my Mentoring practice are teen girls and young adult women. They come from across North America and Europe. Inevitably no matter where they are from, three topics always come up in our work together – Insecurity about their looks, the drama and…
Here is the link to a recent talk I participated in for parents in Marin county, sponsored by the Osher Marin JCC. There is some very compelling data and ideas offered here. The talk is 60 minutes, followed by Q&A. I hope you enjoy this. It was a really extraordinary evening, one I was honored…
The Boston Globe recently ran a story about research that shows how young people have less empathy now than they did even a generation ago. You can read the whole article on my facebook fanpage. I for one, do not need studies like this to substantiate this point! It correlates, and to a large extent,…
Dear Facebook Friend: Now that we are officially linked on Facebook, let me tell you my policy regarding what this means and what it does not. Before I begin, let me encourage you to not take anything I am about to say personally. It is not a comment about you. It is information about me.…