Still curious? Tips A Behavior Plan for Your Staff I recently saw a meme of an individual with a disability carrying a huge stack of papers that read, “If my staff had behavior 08.03.20 Read more Story The Anxiety Bush I recently had a student in a train the trainer session who had high test anxiety. I’m sure we have all met someone with 07.27.20 Read more General Just because you can… In our world of Behavior Management approaches there is an ongoing, some would say raging debate, concerning ‘use of force’ 07.20.20 Read more General Thank You to the Worlds Calmers & Diffusers Recently I have seen a meme floating around social media that shows two law enforcement officers smirking and the meme reads 07.13.20 Read more News Doing Things Differently… We hope everyone had a chance to celebrate Independence Day 2020. Probably not in the same way you’ve celebrated in the past, 07.06.20 Read more Resource Difficult Conversations 2020 has been a strange year so far. The Covid 19 pandemic and high profile events of excessive force and systemic racism 06.29.20 Read more Resource Video Meeting Exhaustion Video meetings seem to be part of what’s being called the new normal. Next week will be the first in person workshop I’ve 06.22.20 Read more Tips Which Side Showing? Every morning we wake up we have a decision to make. Do we want to show the world a good side of ourselves or do we want 06.15.20 Read more General ALL People If you follow The Mandt System at all, you know the underlying philosophy of the program is “All people have the right to be 06.08.20 Read more News Why Mandt is not a KIA… When I say that Mandt is not a KIA, I am not referring to the South Korean Auto maker but to KIA the abbreviation of ‘Know It 06.01.20 Read more General Creative Graduations Well, here we are. I had originally planned to write about graduations and parties and being with friends and family at the 05.25.20 Read more Resource There’s No Such Thing as “Sheeple” Human beings are a social species. We are not the strongest or fastest creatures in the animal kingdom. What puts us 05.18.20 Read more Tips Unfollow, Don’t Unfriend (reprise) I have seen several friends on Facebook expressing feelings of guilt for unfriending or unfollowing family members this 05.11.20 Read more Tips Are You OK? So, many of us have been in quarantine for some time now. Are you OK? I have seen, read, and heard reports of some people 05.04.20 Read more General What can Covid-19 teach us about our relationships? At the Mandt system we have taught for 45 years that ‘Building Healthy Relationships’ has to be at the foundation of 04.27.20 Read more Tips A Deeper Empathy My guess is that you are spending a lot of time at home these days. Unless deemed essential, you, like me, are doing 04.20.20 Read more General Self Isolation Here we are. Quarantine 2020. I’ve lost count of how many days I’ve been in self isolation. Actually, I’m not really sure 04.13.20 Read more Tips Living Through Life’s Questions… “It is not the strongest species that survives, it is the most adaptable”. I’ve been thinking about this quote a bit 04.06.20 Read more Tips In this thing together… For all the bad news out there right now, I am inspired by the ways that I have seen people pull together to help their 03.30.20 Read more News Social Distance Must not Equal… Social Distance does not mean Social or Emotional Isolation. Welcome to a strange and unusual time. Hope everyone is 03.23.20 Read more General Care Virus 2020 With all the news and impact of the current Covid-19 infection it has been fascinating to observe how different countries and 03.16.20 Read more News Like-mindedness!! Last week I once again attended a conference I have now not missed for over 8 years. The Midwest Symposium for 03.09.20 Read more Tips Roll With the Punches Have you ever had one of those really challenging training events? You know the ones...the ones where everything that could go 03.02.20 Read more Tips Had an off day? Sooner or later, if you work in the training profession ,or any profession, really; you will inevitably experience an off 02.24.20 Read more General Romantic Relationships & Sexuality Writing this blog on Valentine’s Day reminded me of several recent workshops while talking about the needs of people in their 02.17.20 Read more Tips Practising De-Escaltion Hopefully everyone is getting what they want/need out of 2020! The month of January proved to be an interesting travel month 02.10.20 Read more
