A monthly publication designed to highlight issues of significance, program news and opportunities, as well as the writings of others related to creating a world that works for everyone.
by Bill Cumming At present, The Boothby Institute is managing a three year, 2.2 million dollar grant for LearningWorks / AmeriCorps Aims High. While we are excited about hiring and training 217 AmeriCorps Members to go into six schools throughout the state of Maine (Riverton Elementary and East End Community ...
Do you feel like all you have ever known is struggle? Even though you know you are blessed, at the end of the day, you still feel like you are struggling–struggling to live peacefully with your spouse, to be consistent with your parenting, to encourage your children to get along, ...
by Bill Cumming 2.2 million, 200 volunteers, 2,000 students served Four school regions across Maine will benefit from the 2013 School Turnaround AmeriCorps Grant Students across four school districts and six schools in Maine will receive improved educational opportunities thanks to a dedicated cadre of AmeriCorps members. Funded by the ...
by Bill Cumming Are there times when you want to raise issues of character with your pre-teen or adolescent children? Are there topics you want to discuss and don’t really know how to get into them without sounding preachy or overbearing? Does it feel to you as if the most ...
by Bill Cumming The following story is written by Tracey Hair, who is now Director of Development of H.O.M.E., Maine’s largest homeless shelter and an Emmaus Community. For me, nothing speaks to the incredible power that resides within each person more clearly than the sharing of one’s own experience. Beautifully ...
by Bill Cumming On my way out of a store recently, I found myself walking behind two elderly women. Their pace was very, very slow and one was using a walker. Due to the layout of the store, in order to exit, I would need to follow behind them. Seconds ...
by Bill Cumming Today’s newsletter is about Robert Holden. I have never met Robert Holden. Not unusual, I never met Mahatma Gandhi or Martin Luther King, Jr. either. What I know about him is that of all the people I know, I have never heard one person say anything about ...
by Bill Cumming According to the statistics there are one billion Valentine’s Day cards sent each year on Valentine’s Day. Those cards are generally in celebration of "romantic love" and sentimental feelings. Not bad and I am not sure it is exactly the gift the world needs right at this ...
by Bill Cumming In the face of everything going on in the world today from a second brutal, public rape in India to increased violence in the Middle East, it is difficult to realize that things are actually getting better. Next Monday is Martin Luther King Day and Inauguration Day ...
by the Board of Directors: Everyday is Christmas Day, Hanukkah, Ramadan, Kwanzaa. The celebration of life and nature is the same thing for some atheists. Every religion points to loving one and other better and learning to grow in wisdom as core tenets. Is there anyone out there who does ...
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Testimonials
Constant awareness of how I approach others, and how I hold them when I approach them, has been a really revelatory concept for me. In some respects, it has given words to something I had always been doing, and in others it has significantly increased my ability and willingness to do this all the time. Erin Kilbride | Portland, ME
For me this is probably the most “radical” change in my life.
Gareth Davies | Capetown, South Africa
[This course] is one of only a few that had real life applications that helped prepare me to teach
Gina Martin | Springfield, MA
Thinking about standards boundaries, things I tolerate and things that excite me are all very powerful and things we should but likely would not do unless prompted like this!
Maureen Clancy | Portland, ME
Through this course I began “living” the beliefs. I demonstrated them more naturally and comfortably. Instead of having to remind myself, I began innately “becoming” that inspired teacher I always had in me but only called upon at certain times. I changed. I am complete in every area of my life.
Maureen Oswald | Jay, Maine
With each session, the conversation became easer and easier to grasp and experience. This was primarily resulting from the mounting proof that the conversation was real and true…it is the holistic nature of the conversation, as one conversation, that makes the process so satisfyingly effective.
Roy Chatterjee | Portland, ME
My entire world has changed and I see things a lot differently today than I did before I began this process…I’m a lot more grounded and am learning how my self-care allows me to take better care of myself so I can be a better leader to my team; lead by example.
Shere Goo| San Francisco, CA