Breathing as a Bridge between You and Your Committee
Recently I went to a dance event called Diavolo at the Straz Center in Tampa where I live. These performers are dancers, gymnasts, athletes, and acrobats. While completely impressed with their strength, flexibility, and cardiovascular capacity, I was struck with their teamwork. How did they trust each other, know when to hold on, when to
Shadow Work
Do you have blind spots? Professionally? Interpersonally? Even educationally? Did you know that we have a literal blind spot in our sight? Physically speaking, where the optic nerve recedes from our eyes to our brain, there are no rod or cone photo-receptors. This results in a circular blacked-out spot (literally a blind spot) in our
Our Greatest Fear
After the recent Super Bowl, I heard Russell Wilson, the Seahawk’s winning quarterback, retell the story of he and his late father who said to him, “Why not you?” Russel thought, “Why not me?” and “why not us in the Super Bowl?” Russell thought. Somewhere in Russell’s belief system he felt deserving or as deserving
Thesis Statement – Definition and Guidelines
Too many graduate students these days are entering the culture of higher learning without the skills they need. Even if you went to a top University most, probably all, of your papers were graded by an over-worked graduate student who needed to get through a mountain of grading overnight. Once you got into graduate school
Trials and Tribulations of Dissertations and a Methodology and Results Chapter Game Changer
In this newsletter, I will talk about the dissertation process, and how this process can be made more humane. The barriers to completing the dissertation are institutional, preparedness issues, and personal. To overcome these stumbling blocks I’ll discuss academic tools and resources to move you forward. Institutional barriers. Not many graduate students go through the