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How to Identify and Eliminate ANTs in Your Relationships: 9 Types of Automatic Negative Thoughts
9 Types of ANTs: Automatic Negative Thoughts that invade our relationships and how to exterminate them
Feb 6, 20244 min read
Pick Up the Sled to Amplify Your Mental Wellness
Making Tracks Down the Snowy Hill A visual representation of how our minds process the world. Visualize yourself standing at the top of...
Feb 1, 20242 min read
Relationship Design in Uncertain Times
What If Your Relationships Felt as Graceful as Fred and Ginger? Contentment Magazine, Winter 2021 by Maureen K. McCarthy, Co-Founder, The...
Jan 1, 202112 min read
There’s a Problem with Problem-Solution Thinking. The Solution: Stop Using It
I have a problem on my mind right now. It’s running around in my head like a virtual roulette wheel waiting for the ball to drop
Sep 26, 20207 min read
Worry vs Care: Is Stress a Warning or Message?
I had two very interesting Zoom calls this week. The first one was with a colleague who was overwhelmed by the uncertainty
Sep 26, 202011 min read
Beyond Problems and Solutions to "What Does This Make Possible?"
Every day you wake up as the creator of your life, irrespective of anything that happened yesterday, whether it was good or bad or right...
Aug 26, 20193 min read
DEFINITION: Collaborative Awareness
kəˈlabərətiv əˈwe(ə)rnis noun Two or more entities working in concert to create a continuous and nearly instant feedback loop of group...
Aug 26, 20191 min read
The Blueprint of We Collaboration Process
The Blueprint of We is a co-written design document
and an ongoing collaboration process and tools that build trust and reduce anxiety.
Aug 26, 20192 min read
The Blueprint of We: 5 Ways to Master Collaboration
Maureen McCarthy should have been dead 15 years ago. Doctors gave her just a few months to live after diagnosing McCarthy, an...
Feb 29, 20164 min read
Prepare for Peace
REALTOR® Magazine October 2010 by Wendy Cole, senior editor REALTOR® Magazine The best way to deal with challenging customers is to...
Jan 227 min read
The Neuroscience of Gratitude
Yeah, gratitude is awesome … but does it really affect your brain at the biological level? Yup. You know what the antidepressant...
Oct 17, 20212 min read
The Collaborative Brain Toolkit
There are 3 Essential Elements that are necessary for groups to thrive—1. Clear Mind, 2. Relationship Design, 3. Beyond Problems & Solutions
Mar 10, 20209 min read
What if Your Relationship is Currently Under Stress?
As a rule of thumb, Blueprint of We Collaboration Documents are not written with someone with whom you are currently not at peace. They...
Sep 12, 20196 min read
Micro-dosing Other People to Rewire Your Brain
That noise in your mind is actually a messaging system not a warning system. Use your stress to upgrade your brain. We crave human...
Sep 8, 20193 min read
How do we do this fast-paced dance without stepping on each other’s toes?
The InterchangeableDance of Leader & Follower by Maureen K. McCarthy and Zelle Nelson Co-Founders, The Center for Collaborative Awareness...
Aug 26, 20191 min read
Custom Design Required
The people, the work, the timing are all highly specific to each collaboration. In a world where traditional roles and rules are either...
Aug 26, 20191 min read
STORY SPOTLIGHT on the Center for Collaborative Awareness Impacts
STORY 1 Impact: A global, pharmaceutical, 100+ member, virtual team deepened their client knowledge exchange and social connection to...
Aug 26, 20191 min read
Flashlight in a Dark Cave
Stress is like a blinding light in a dark cave. You're stranded in the pitch black and someone comes upon you and shines a huge...
Aug 26, 20191 min read
5 Keys Ways to Quiet the Safety Brain
The Safety Brain is our first and main mode of interaction with the world, keeping the Connected Brain as a secondary mode.
Aug 26, 20192 min read
We Are Wired to Connect: The Neuroscience of Collaboration
Our brains have two main functions that have emerged through millions of years of evolution—to connect us for growth, and to keep us safe. W
Aug 26, 20193 min read
The Collaborative Brain Toolkit
Over years of working with groups around the world, we have found three essential elements are necessary for groups to thrive.
Jul 2, 20189 min read
The Business Case for Collaboration
Smart collaboration generates profits, loyalty, talent and innovation. So what are you waiting for? By Heidi Gardner from Communication...
Sep 5, 20176 min read
Speak with Kindness: How Your Words Literally Restructure Your Brain
The following article speaks so clearly to how our words can directly change the way our brains are wired. This is why the first...
Jun 4, 20163 min read
Don't Look for Me Here
don't look for me when I go silent, for you may not find me here - where there are only dams and white water, turning wheels for...
May 9, 20161 min read
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