We All Need a Common Enemy – Part 3

We All Need a Common Enemy – Part 3

In my last two posts, I introduced you to Santiago Genovés and the bonkers social experiment he conducted in 1973 with four men and six women aboard a raft in the middle of the Atlantic. And then I rounded up some of my favorite highlights of how it all went totally...
We All Need a Common Enemy – Part 2

We All Need a Common Enemy – Part 2

Last week, I introduced you to Santiago Genovés and his utterly bizarre, misguided, and terribly executed social experiment with four men and six women aboard a raft in the middle of the Atlantic. Here’s a quick recap: Genovés, an anthropologist, thought he could...
We All Need a Common Enemy – Part 1

We All Need a Common Enemy – Part 1

One look at the front page of any major newspaper — or most of our social media feeds, for that matter — will make you feel like the world is always in conflict. And to some degree, that’s true. As humans, we have the capacity to treat one another in horrible ways....
Avoiding the Cliff

Avoiding the Cliff

I recently received an urgent call from one of the Sheriff’s offices I work with. They asked me to facilitate a call between two people in their organization in an effort to address an issue before it became a full-blown problem.  See, in law enforcement, “SRIMs” are...