How to Become MAGNUS-OVÉA: Live the Cardinal Virtues – Part A: Wisdom

How to Become MAGNUS-OVÉA: Live the Cardinal Virtues - Part A: Wisdom

The first part of becoming MAGNUS for me is living virtuously – so simple – so challenging – so profoundly worth the pursuit. Thanks again to the ancients, occidental and oriental, they have done the thinking on virtues for us. Over hundreds of years of debate, over many philosophies of living they settled on the … Read more

How to Become MAGNUS-OVÉA – Part I: Live Virtuously and Holistically – Continuously

How to become MAGNUS-OVÉA – Part I: Live virtuously and holistically—continuously

I would never presume how to tell you how to become MAGNUS-OVÉA. I can only comment on what the journey means to me. Your commitment is personal, a sacred, devoted promise to yourself – as it should be. Your path is unique, matchless – how you define it; how you travel it; how you overcome … Read more

Decriminalizing Mental Illness Is about New Wave Leadership

Building a Crisis Intervention Team is about leadership. A well working, permanent local effort to decriminalize mental illness is the work of unselfish collaboration across and with agencies for years. The whole becomes greater than the sum. And that sum is a contribution to community wellbeing. Why wellbeing? It is not wellness; a matter for … Read more

Decriminalizing Mental Illness is Limitless: Invent – Think – Struggle

Decriminalizing Mental Illness is Limitless: Invent - Think - Struggle

I have been reading another good book: Limitless Mind by Jo Boaler (2019). The gist of it is that when we struggle even fail, our brains grow! It is common sense; now it is science. Due to neuroplasticity when the brain must really think and overcome obstacles especially by collaborating, we form new neural pathways … Read more