Weingarten’s Theory of Readiness – When? How? Best Way To?

It’s January 15th and your New Year’s Resolutions are…um…. How are they doing? New behaviors, new goals, new paths are difficult to achieve, sometimes for simple reasons like logistics and sometimes for more difficult-to-solve reasons.

Simply put – are you at your personal stage of readiness to achieve your goal? And if you’re not – how can you identify it and get ready for it? Below is a post I re-post from time to time due to questions & requests I get. It’s not only relevant for New Year’s Resolutions, it’s helpful to review any time you’re making a change.

I suggest to clients in executive & management positions that they review and discuss this with employees and/or partners when they’re working on making changes or beginning new projects.

When working with clients involved in creative projects we review their creative readiness process and how they can work with it within the parameters of contracted work, and as a way to avoid getting stuck in ways that could interfere with their creative output & achieving their goals.

For people at all levels, in any industry it’s a way of identifying & articulating your patterns. Once you have that knowledge you can create a work/life plan that motivates you and keeps you motivated and on track. Gaining this knowledge about yourself also helps you not get blindsided by your own self.

The “Readiness” issue became obvious to me as I coached, taught & developed programs and as a life-long student of people and behaviors, and as an educator, mental health professional & theory/program developer I explored and developed this theory and strategies to work with it. So here it is again – enjoy and good luck!

One of the things I love about the work I do is exploring and developing new theories in order to assist people to understand, articulate and achieve their goals. An interesting phenomenon that I’ve been studying and developing as a theory for learning and change is something I call “The Readiness Theory”.

In its simplest form people “get ready” and become acclimated to changes in their lives in different ways.

* Some people dive right in and get used to the experience while they’re muddling through it. An example of that would be *Anne who decided she was looking for a job as a corporate attorney without really understanding what that lifestyle entails. She took the first job that looked good for her and is in coaching to become adjusted to the work, the lifestyle, interacting with her colleagues and developing a career plan for the future.

* Some people need to have all the elements in place before they can make a change or move.
An example of this readiness personality would be *Gregory who is a graduate student at an Ivy League University. Together we’re exploring every avenue as far as his interests are concerned. We’re working together to enable him to articulae and decide on the kind of life and lifestyle he’d like to live professionally, intellectually, financially, personally, and as far as leaving a legacy. We will then combine all the information so that he can make the best choice possible for him to make with the information he has at hand. He’d like to know what he’ll be doing after graduation by the time his last semester in grad school begins.

* Some people make a change and then take a few steps back before they jump right in again.
There are a couple of ways that this manifests itself in coaching. *Mariettastarted her coaching after she’d very impulsively left a steady job with a career track she thought she’d wanted in order to become a professional animator which she had no experience in or knowledge of how it worked “in the real world”. With a very low frustration threshold Marietta was unable to manage the situation and went back to a different job on the same career track as the original. Six months later she resumed coaching while in the job to plan ahead for becoming an animator. After working that through a bit more slowly than she’d originally anticipated she is currently very happily working as an animator. “I took a bit of a detour” is the way she describes it.

* Some people make a change before they’re ready to live it and then act that out in different ways.
Where do I begin with this one? This can manifest itself in many ways. I worked with *Tom, a young man who was under extreme pressure from his family to go to medical school and go into his father’s medical practice. To put it mildly he DID NOT want to be a doctor but felt that he just didn’t know how to get out of it. Well, he kept failing all his pre-med classes and did miserably on his MCATs so that he would have a hard time getting into any medical school his father would approve of. Then he took a gap year (actually three years) to travel the world. Long story short, he finally told his parents what was really going on and we then began a course of coaching to discover what he really wanted to do. Happy ending he’s currently an attorney who works primarily with doctors!

Another way this manifests itself is when someone is making the best move for them but they really aren’t ready for it yet for numerous reasons. This comes out in the way they behave with those around them, passive-aggressive behavior, self-sabotage and more. An example of this would be *Therese who was a successful newspaper journalist but decided to leave it all and write a book TODAY. Therese was a great writer but wasn’t used to the long stretches of of solitary time needed to do the very solitary work of writing a book. She wasn’t used to people not responding to her the way they had when she had her newspaper and title backing her up. In short, she just wasn’t ready for it. After alienating just about everyone she knew and spending most of her writing time starting at a blank computer screen (or alternately crying and eating) she began coaching work with me and through the process became able to be the person she wanted to be and do the work she wanted to do.

Readiness will show up in many ways and will also impact the length of the coaching relationship and the amount of coaching sessions required.

What’s your readiness style and how has it impacted your decisions? I’d love to hear from you! Let me know at atypicalcoaching at gmail.

Enjoy the day – your way!
Rebecca Kiki

*(All names and identifying character and work traits have been changed.)

c Rebecca K Weingarten

Working Together for the Greater Good. It Can Be Done.

My friends and colleagues on the right might think I lean too far to the left, and my friends and colleagues on the left think I lean too far to the right. I listen to all sides, I work with all sides. I have friends, colleagues and family on all sides and I’m constantly learning from all sides. Social media can be great, but it can also be extremely divisive and inflammatory as we all know. My timeline on Twitter could give anyone whiplash with the different points of views that go floating by. On any given issue I’ll see to completely opposing passionate views one after the other. I listen and learn from all and I know that there are ways for us all to work together for the greater good because I’ve done it.

I’ve been lucky enough to do extremely meaningful work in my life. Work that impacted many lives on a day to day and long-term basis. While changing and working to better the lives of others I too was changed and my world and worldview became better and bigger.

I’ve held many positions where I’ve worked with people directly and some in which my work was impacting them indirectly. I’ve mentioned some of them here and on Social Media. There’s one that I haven’t talked that much about since it doesn’t make for easy or fun casual conversation and the scope and range was way larger than 140 – yet it was one of the greatest professional experiences I’ve had the great fortune to experience. I met the most amazing people in all areas of government, non-profit & private sectors all working to improve the lives of children, youth and their families.

In short, as the Director of a New York State funded program focusing on New York City I worked with over 25 NYC agencies with a combined budget of over $16 billion as well as a number of State&Federal entities and agencies all in the service of integrating services.  All kinds of services. Now add to that the creation & development of a first-of-its-kind interagency database. Yes, I had to listen to all sides.

Imagine, agencies as diverse as Juvenile Justice, Cultural Affairs, Corrections, Health and Mental Hygiene, Probation, Education&the NYPD among others all working together to better the lives of children, youth&their families. We had interagency conferences and coordinating sessions working toward that one goal. Together. One cohesive group made up of different agencies each with their own missions, goals and mandates uniting in the service of our common goal. It can be done.

One of my proudest moments on that project was presenting it at the Blue Room in City Hall to representatives of agencies from all over the NYC and NYS. (If I recall correctly there was a smattering of Federal representatives there as well.) Later, I was honored to sit on a panel with Dr. Tom Frieden, the Director of the CDC, then the commissioner of the NYC Dept. Of Health and Mental Hygiene, who said he loved the program and threw his support and the support of his agency behind it in any way he could.

This was a groundbreaking program in content and scope. It included the sharing of information of all kinds and cooperation, coordination and integration of different goals and agendas and the creation of an interagency database. Especially for an area as large as NYC it was hard to imagine. To give you an idea, when I asked my NY State supervisor which of the other NY counties NYC county was like he said, “Chicago”… Millions of NYC children and youth and many millions more of their families.

I worked with the most amazing people in all the agencies, from the rank and file through to the Commissioner level and beyond. All working together toward one united goal. It can be done.

Let’s all take a step back and decide to listen to all sides, to learn from each other and to come together in the service of one common goal. Articulate that goal any way you’d like – but in simple terms to make the world a safer, better and more constructive environment for all. We’re all sharing the same spaces, neighborhoods, cities, states, countries, planet. Let’s work together to make it the best we can for everyone.

I know it can be done. Let’s do it. And, if you think I can help in some way feel free to contact me and let’s see how I can be of service.

Enjoy the day your way,

Rebecca Kiki

RKW AtypicalCoaching.com

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New Year’s Resolutions – Easy as ABC – The 5W Method

Hi All,

Seriously, how did we get to December already? What an amazing year it’s been, I hope you’ve had a great one as well. So, this is the time of year everyone takes stock of how the year went. If you’re really lucky and worked really hard and the stars ALL aligned in your favor and everything went perfectly smoothly then –

Oh – okay. In that case, as great as the year may have been there might be a thing or two you’d like to change, strengthen, shift, add or subtract from this coming year. 2015 is almost here. I’m so excited for it and the possibilities it holds. I’d like to help you get to feeling the same so New Year’s is a jumping off point to new & even better.

Okay, jumping off the cheery soapbox now and looking at the reality of life. It takes thought and planning in addition to hard work to make things happen. It takes laying the groundwork and some of the groundwork is internal. Here are some tips for doing just that.

I get requests every year to repost this article I wrote about making and keeping New Year’s Resolutions.

New Year’s Resolutions – Easy as ABC

New Year’s Resolutions. They seem so easy to decide on and so difficult to carry out and achieve. Can they be as easy as ABC? Or 123? I think they can. Having begun my career teaching ABCs and 123s I know that the most effective way to learn something new is often the simplest way. With that in mind I created a system for my clients to help them set and achieve New Year’s Resolutions that’s as easy as – ABC and 123. I call it the 5Ws.

Think back to when you were learning how to read and add for the first time. You take for granted now the ease with which you read and comprehend but back then? Every new letter was difficult if not complicated. New sounds made by new vowels got the whole thing mixed up in your head. Oy. Or would that be oi? And what’s all this about a 1 and a 5 being 15, isn’t it 6?

Life seems to get more complicated as we get older and wiser. Once you get used to doing things a certain way it can feel unbearable to change. Making the changes in the simplest way possible is often the best ways to shift, change and move forward.

How about going back to the basics, and the strategies that worked when you were learning the basics? Step by step. Patience. Persistence. Pride in a job well done. Retracing your steps to find out what went wrong when you slip up. Breaking down complicated jobs into easy manageable tasks. Doing your homework. Rehearsing for the performance and often taking one step backward for every two steps forward.

The 5W System – As easy as ABC and 1,2,3

Supplies:
Journal supplies – a notebook and pen/pencil or computer.
New Year’s Resolutions supplies – Your wishes, goals, hopes and dreams.
Strategy supplies – Your strengths and limitations.

As you answer the 5W questions below, jot them down in a journal you’ll be starting especially for this. Keeping a journal can often help in answering the 5Ws and helping you keep your resolutions.

The journal will give you a starting point aside from January 1st to refer to. A week or a month from now you can see how much progress you’ve made and decide if you’re happy with your progress, or lack thereof. You can continue from there. You can modify your tactics and start differently. Or you can start again using different techniques that fit your lifestyle better.

The 5Ws? Simple. Who, What, Where, When and Why.

• Who are you today and who would you like to be a year from now?
• Why do you want to make the change? Emphasis on YOU*
• What changes in behavior and shifts in attitude will you need in order to make the changes and achieve your goal?
• Where can you get support to help you make the change? People, books, websites, journals etc.
• When is the best time of day/week/year for you to make the change? To evaluate the change? To take action toward achieving the change?

*A couple of tips to help you answer the “Why” for YOU.

OK, you’ve decided you want to make a change. Think about the change you’ve decided you want to make. You. Yes. Not anyone else who wants a change from you. You. OK. Are we there yet? One more minute. Think about it. It’s OK – you can say, “I want to _______”. If you need to whisper it that’s OK, I can listen very carefully. If you need to write it down and burn it before anyone sees it, that’s also OK. If you want to send yourself an email describing it, try that. Whatever works.

Now that you’ve decided what it is that you’d like to do/be/achieve, what mountain you’d like to climb, what number you’d like to see on the scale or in your bank account, which salutation you’d like to see before or after your name, what new places you’d like to explore or books you’d like to read….there’s another step to take before we start planning the How.
Why do you want _________________________?

Find a place and time where you can sit quietly and think and have a real conversation with yourself or with your coach. Explore the reasons. Sure there are the first few surface/off the cuff that come to mind easily. Dig deeper. Keep asking yourself why until you’ve gotten to the real reason you want to achieve “whatever”.

If we were working together I’d keep asking you why, why, why until we got to the real results you were after.

So? What’s the real reason? What do you really hope will be the result of your resolution?

Once you’ve figured out the “Why” it’s easier to schedule and sort out the rest. You’ll know the end result you’re trying to achieve. By answering the Who, What, Where and When you’ll be able to schedule the small tasks needed to make the change into your schedule.

Why? Why not? Why shouldn’t you have the best year you’ve ever had before? Can you think of one good reason? I didn’t think so. So go for it! Out with the old and in with the new.

Wishing you a happy almost-New Year. Make every day count…because it does.

Rebecca Kiki

RKW http://www.twitter.com/coachkiki

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“Old Tactics” Shouldn’t Mean “Old Attitudes” NYT – Old Tactic Gets New Use: Public Schools Separate Girls and Boys

They lost me at ” Act pretty at all times!”

I believe same gender classrooms have much merit but the attitudes, comments, quotes and mindsets in the NYT “Old Tactic Gets New Use: Public Schools Separate Girls and Boys” article so amazed me that I checked to make sure the date on the paper was 2014 and not 1914.

Some of the more unbelievable comments/statements included:

• Supporters say girls have more in common with other girls — and boys with other boys — than with the opposite sex of the same age.
• The training materials…noted that “gently competitive lessons may be more impactful for boys”
• …and that “lessons that incorporate emotions and emotional vocabulary” may have more impact for girls.
• Teachers were also advised to be “more tolerant of boys’ need to fidget or girls’ need to talk during class.”
• “I am able to push them to their level and include sports and different things,” she said of the boys she teaches for part of the day before swapping with a reading and social studies teacher to work with girls. She added that she liked to turn math sessions into games because boys “like competition.”
• showed a crate she kept in a storage room of fuzzy pastel blue sweaters for girls, saying they were more likely to feel cold than boys.
• For spelling and vocabulary lessons incorporating physical activity, Ms. L brought out hula hoops and small rubber balls for the girls.
• The boys would get yo-yos, bats and badminton rackets.

Full disclosure – I went to an all girls school for grades 1-12. (Yes, all my schooling until college.) I was a “fidgety” student and a talkative student. I was asked by my HS principal “are you a lady?” when I spoke my mind. In a classroom full of girls my voice carried since it wasn’t a typically girl-ish voice and I was often singled out as talking out of turn. (I’m proud to have continued on in my life speaking my mind.) That isn’t the part of the school experience I would recommend. But there was a great deal about it that I would recommend.

One of the greatest things about an all girls school experience was that the best student in all subject matters was a girl. Girls ruled in every subject. Girls ruled in any of our curriculum subjects. The best person for any job was a girl. We got used to experiencing girls in positions of leadership. It was natural.

As a classroom teacher in coeducational classes I faced many challenges (try teaching 28 1st grade immigrant children to speak, read and write English – I dare you.) but classroom management because “boys and girls are different” wasn’t one of them and shouldn’t be the driving force for a same gender classroom philosophy or theory.

As an educator I’ve served in numerous roles including as a classroom teacher, program developer, teacher trainer, director of a drop-out prevention program and as director of a govt. program that coordinated multi-billion dollars of services through 25+ agencies. In all of them I approached children and youth as humans with different strengths, weaknesses, preferences and innate qualities.

Any group of girls will have the fidgetiest, most competitive, difficult, coldest, fuzziest, creative and most emotional girl. Any group of boys will have the fidgetiest, most competitive, difficult, coldest, fuzziest, creative and emotional boy. The challenge is to develop classroom management techniques and lessons that target each of them.

So while my same gender education was problematic in some ways, it was a great experience in others. I think an all girls or all boys class has a lot to offer children. It’s the theory driving it described in this article that are very problematic. What this article should do more than anything is to  get people to raise their voices and speak out about the underlying attitudes and beliefs about ‘boys are/do’ and ‘girls are/do’.

Still speaking my mind and encouraging all of you to do the same – every day,

RKW

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15 Successful Entrepreneurs Share the Best Advice They Ever Got via Business Insider

I’m one of those people who’s  sending people articles and other kinds of information all the time. I love reading something great and shooting it on over to someone else who would benefit from it. On Coaching/Edu Twitter and creative arts Twitter I’m always RTing good info that other people post. Great information is just too amazing to keep to yourself! “Once a teacher always a teacher” I’ve been told. 🙂

The people at @BusinessInsider posted this terrific article today and it’s the kind of information that anyone can get something out of. So here it is – 15 successful entrepreneurs share the best advice they ever got. I think it’s all great advice and well worth incorporating one’s life. 

Which one resonates with you?

Giving thanks to all the amazing people in my life. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I’m grateful for each and every one of you and appreciate your being, your uniquenesses, and the joy you bring to my life.

Wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving,

Kiki

RKW

Turning “Embracing Failure” into “Failing Successfully” re: Fast Company – Part 2

In Part  1 of Turning “Embracing Failure” into “Failing Successfully” re: Fast Company and my opposing views included in the article I discuss the hype surrounding the Embracing Failure philosophy. Here, in Part 2,  are some techniques and tips I use with clients for turning a failure into a successful failure.

“Embrace Failure” does have to be part of everyone’s life philosophy. Not embrace as in to run after or strive for failure, but to accept failure in life as a reality. In that way one can prepare for the inevitable and continue on personal and professional missions in order to achieve goals. Then one can Never Give Up. If a person thinks failure will never and shouldn’t happen, then when it does they’re stopped dead in their tracks.

Knowing it will happen allows a person to work with the reality and learn from it. Some questions I work with clients to answer are; 

• What lessons have I learned? 
• What can I do differently in the future? 
• What worked? 
• Which elements were within my control? 
• Which variables couldn’t I control? 
• Am I willing to continue on this path? 
• Is this something I want as much as I thought I did? 
• Is there a better way to go about achieving this goal?
•  Is it time to walk away from this particular method for achieving the goal and trying something new?
• How can I learn to tolerate the feelings of failing at something I attempted to do?
• What do I do next? 

By defining “Embrace Failure” as thinking that means a person doesn’t have to try, or trying and giving up too easily instead of trying something different. That would be abandoning a goal that is reachable because one particular method of achieving it didn’t work. As I work with clients to “fail successfully” part of the work is figuring out what’s not working and how to make constructive and productive changes. Those include literal and practical changes, mindset changes, emotional changes and behavioral changes.

As a society I think “Embrace Failure” is becoming a cliche and excuse really fast. We should be treading lightly because we don’t want to set ourselves up to be a failure society where failure is all wonderful and everyone will now get a trophy or kudos for failing in the way they were getting them for trying or just showing up.

The phrase “failure is not an option” has power to it. It doesn’t always happen that way, but when I work with clients we work really hard to set large goals and smaller goals. I also work with them to strategize how to achieve each of the goals. The point being while one might fail in some smaller attempts toward the larger goal, or the larger goal posts might shift as they work toward them, but with the expectation that things might&will sometimes go wrong. Then, working to develop a unique methodology that each person can incorporate in their lives, to match their strengths and work within the parameters of personal challenging areas. Working in a conscious way with that knowledge a person can persevere and continue.

A major issue in all of this is the speed with which people expect success to happen. Especially in our hyperfast, hyper-everything worlds. Success takes work and time. It can be slow and arduous to achieve. It can be frustrating and excruciating. The questions I ask are; how badly do you want it? Do you want it badly enough to work through failure? To tolerate failure? To tolerate the feelings that come along with failure? To learn from failure and fail successfully? 

I‘m not a fan of the phrase “embracing failure” because it focuses too much on the actual failure as an end result and something twee. I work with clients to turn failure into something they can work on and learn from, which is why I use the phrase “failing successfully”. It’s not holding the failure close to you in and of itself, it’s taking it and saying how can I make this an experience I can learn from and use moving forward.

Embracing failure can keep you stuck in the failure. Using failure successfully propels you forward. 

Enjoy the day your way,

RKW

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Rebecca Kiki Weingarten M.Sc.Ed, MFA

Atypicalcoaching.com

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Turning “Embracing Failure” into “Failing Successfully” re: Fast Company

I’m not big on hype, which is why I tend to sometimes take the opposite view of things. In a terrific article in Fast Company by Rachel Gillett she writes about the hype surrounding Embracing Failure. My opposing thoughts were included, in short – let’s not glorify failure.

We don’t want to become a society that thinks of failure as a worthy goal. Failure is inevitable in life. Period. Everyone will fail at something at some point. What we can do is learn to use failure as a stepping stone to a future success, which is what I work with clients to achieve when they have failed at something. Learn how to fail successfully and every failure is a learning opportunity and a method for learning to do and think differently. Below are some thoughts I exchanged with Rachel and Fast Company on the topic.

I’m not sure exactly where the “Embrace Failure” trend is coming from. In my opinion, and based on work with clients of different ages my thought is that it’s an almost expected backlash to the “trophy for everyone”&”everyone’s a winner” mentality that we’ve been hearing for a while coupled with the new realities that people have been facing in the years since the economy took a nosedive and the world, work, consumption and expectations have changed.

In the first case, people who were raised with a sense that they “win” merely because they participate are shocked when they hit the world and workforce and find that the world isn’t rewarding them because “they are” or “they tried” or “they participated”. They have to perform, achieve&distinguish themselves and that isn’t easy to do. Sometimes they fail. They now have to learn how to process and deal with it.

In the first case, people who were raised with a sense that they “win” merely because they participate are shocked when they hit the world and workforce and find that the world isn’t rewarding them because “they are” or “they tried” or “they participated”. They have to perform, achieve&distinguish themselves and that isn’t easy to do. Sometimes they fail. They now have to learn how to process and deal with it.

In the latter case, people who worked really hard and did “all the right things” suddenly found themselves out of work, having to reinvent themselves, looking for new positions & careers at a time when they thought they were set. They had it all figured out – only the world didn’t play along with the plan. They’re facing failure for the first time in many cases. Including people at the C-level who suddenly find themselves out of work for the first time. It’s a shocking experience. Hence, “embracing failure”.

I think “Embrace Failure” it’s a very old concept and it’s only in recent years that we as a society shifted away from it. I’ve always taught and coached “successful failure” to clients of all ages. The earlier people learn to cope with failure, to experience it and rise above to come back again to fight the good fight and work to achieve their goals, the better off they are.

The people who succeed in life aren’t necessarily the ones that had immediate “luck” and “success”. They’re the people who keep working at what they want to achieve. History in all areas and industries is full of stories of people who failed and continued on. The only real failure is giving up. Then, there’s no hope to achieve goals.

By the way – knowing your goals and how best to go about achieving them is a huge part of the process of success. I could quote zillions of quotes here that business, arts, sciences, military, education, psychology leaders and successes have said about never giving up. I’ll use Winston Churchill’s seemingly simple words of wisdom “Never, ever, ever give up.” In order to do that, a person must know how to embrace failure, or as I work with clients – to fail successfully.

Next up – tips for how to turn failure into Failing Successfully.

Until then, think of a failure in your life that you wish you could have turned into a successful failure and what you’d like to do differently next time.

Enjoy the day your way,

Kiki

Day of Service. Beyond a #Hashtag.

Hi All,

On this 9/11 I’d like to suggest that when we speak of activism and service we take the time, effort & energy to make it more than #DayofService or #Activism or #Change. Simple to do really. Do something. Take action. I won’t list the many, many ways there are to participate in changing the status quo, in changing a person’s. You’re smart and resourceful. You can figure it out.

Choose an issue you care deeply and passionately about. Deeply and passionately because anything else and your motivation will fizzle out fast.

Do a bit of research on the issue and where you can fit in as an agent of change.

Do one small thing. Then another. Then another.

This is not a “do as I say, not as I do” thought. I’ve spent my life working to make people’s lives better in many different ways. From some of the toughest neighborhoods in the city to the shiny halls of government. From the page to the stage. I’ve put heels & cowboy boots on the ground and done things. One day at a time, one project at a time. One child at a time. One neighborhood and community at a time.

Do something. Anything. It can feel tiny to you but many people doing lots of small things makes a huge difference.

Do something more than #something.

Remembering and honoring those murdered on 9/11 and those who died fighting to keep us safe and those serving past and present for our freedom and safety. Remembering my friends and colleagues who died that day and those who ran through the ashes and rubble on the streets to get away. With you in spirit and love to all those who suffer the silent wounds of war.

Rebecca Kiki (RKW).

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Robin Williams, Depression, Misinformation and Competence

Hi All, 

It took me a while to gather my thoughts on Robin Williams’ suicide and the aftermath. It seems like so many people were affected, I know I was. For many reasons. But the area that concerned me most in the aftermath was the (often well-intentioned) misinformation that people were posting all over the internet. 

I have a lot of thoughts on the topic as an individual and from a professional point of view. For right now, I’d like to share one of the better articles I’ve read on the topic. To Know Suicide: Depression Can Be Treated, but It Takes Competence by Kay Redfield Jamison.

 If you’re searching for help be careful who you trust with your thoughts, feelings & mental health. 

Enjoy the day,

Kiki 

RKW