Two weeks ago, I spent an extended weekend in the Yucatan Peninsula with a group of sixty chiropractors, there with one of their coaches, Dr. Jeffery Slocum, a chiropractor and President of Leaning Curves, a company he created to broaden the scope and effectiveness of the chiropractic community in general. Presenters (and we were one of about twelve) were asked to present and stay for the two day event and participate in “Purposeful Connections” with all the other presenters and participants. I found the format refreshing and personally engaging. As a result of that time we spent in unstructured and focused discussion of how to become better at what each of use does in the world, I came to a revelation regarding a significant correlation between the work of chiropractors and our work in the Boothby Institute. Continue Reading →

And by our definition, environments that work are inspired.

Are you excited to go to work or school each day?

While enjoying vacations, do you miss the atmosphere at work or school?

Do you feel valued and appreciated by those with whom you work or study?

If any of the above is true, and it must be our hope that they are, then there is a basic groundwork of respect present in your school or place of business. Perhaps the most important ingredient in creating an environment where people experience being treated with dignity, grace and loving-kindness, is that there is an institution-wide agreement in place that the value of a person does not come from their grades or their achievements. Continue Reading →

Editor’s Note: Peter Blyth is a retired, thirty year veteran policeman, whose primary beat was a neighborhood call Wick in Great Britain. Only this week he finished the “What One Person Can Do” program and for a month he has returned to his old police “beat” to continue work in supporting people in creating lives of value and purpose. Using his own money to fund the beginning of the project for things like room and board, The Boothby Institute has contributed to his training. Continue Reading →