Forgive the prolonged online absence. Time seems to have speeded up since the World Fellows retreat at the end of October, and as we draw into the closing 3 weeks of the program the tempo is increasing yet further towards … Continued

I promised you a blog on journaling. And I am a woman of my word. This blog will be a summary of the workshop that I gave during the recent World Fellows retreat at Race Brook Lodge in Massachusetts. Throughout … Continued

Yesterday four of the World Fellows held a panel discussion here at Yale as part of our Hot Coffee, Hot Issues series. This one was entitled: What does the world expect from the next US President? (Throughout this blog I … Continued

With just six weeks to go, I give an update from the Yale World Fellows Program. I’ve just been to two back-to-back retreats, one with the World Fellows, and one with the Pleiades Network for environmentally-minded women in leadership. Show … Continued

I am sure homework didn’t used to be this hard. I have to describe my message in 3 phrases of no more than 15 words. The phrases should be comprehensive (cover everything I want to say) and mutually exclusive (no … Continued

Here continues the summary of my psychology course in Thinking. Week 1 (Causality) was covered last Tuesday. Week 2: Confirmation Bias I’m sure you’ll recognise this one: we make up our mind about something – whether we like somebody, whether … Continued

I am now halfway through my one semester at Yale, and for a while I’ve been promising some of my World Fellow colleagues a summary of my psychology class, called Thinking. Here is the first part. Part 2, which will … Continued

Recently Professor Robert Shiller, famous for having predicted the current global financial crisis, came to speak to the World Fellows. He casually mentioned in the course of his presentation that he had been asked to contribute an essay to a book … Continued

While I am away in Monterey at the Blue Ocean Film Festival, I thought I would post some thoughts that I wrote in response to a request from our Personal and Professional Development guru, Professor David Berg. He asked that … Continued