We keep growing at The Eden Alternative… by Laura Beck, The Eden Alternative® We are delighted to have another talented and long-standing friend of The Eden Alternative® join our Home Office Team. Welcome Mel Coppola! As an Eden Guide/Educator, Mel will facilitate educational experiences and support the ongoing growth of our cadre of Certified Eden…
We kicked off the new year with the addition of two exceptionally talented people to the Eden Alternative Home Office Team. Enter Kristi Doan and Julian Flores. As a new Community Builder, Kristi consults with and supports organizations implementing our approach. Julian serves on our newly formed leadership team as Chief Marketing Officer. In this role, he will spearhead innovative strategies for broadening our reach and deepening our impact.
I had the opportunity to chat with Kristi and Julian about their new adventure. Here’s what they had to share…
By Laura Beck, The Eden Alternative Years ago, while volunteering each week at a local organization, I met a nice guy, Jim, who always wore the same hat… day in, day out. The rest of us benignly speculated about the ever-present hat… did he ever take it off? Did he sleep with it on? We…
By Denise Hyde, The Eden Alternative You’ve all heard people say that a “little turnover is expected as leaders change.” I’ve heard it too. The other thing I’ve heard is “turnover is a good thing during a transition. It is a chance to get the right people on the bus.” I’d like to offer another…
By Laura Beck, The Eden Alternative Life coach Martha Beck’s book, Finding Your Way in a Wild New World, captures the key qualities of what she calls a “Wayfinder.” (No, Martha is not my kin, by the way.) Wayfinders, by her definition, look a lot like changemakers to me. Beck describes Wayfinders as individuals driven by…
I recently reviewed the proposed CMS regulations and what struck me right away is that while the proposed changes were created to “reflect the substantial advances that have been made over the past several years in the theory and practice of service delivery and safety,” one thing hasn’t changed a bit.
Reposted with permission from jillvitaleaussem.com I had hoped, with the current focus on healthcare workers as heroes, that the demonizing of nursing homes would cease during the pandemic. It hasn’t. I’ve seen very few news stories blaming hospitals when patients die from COVID-19 but nearly every story about people dying in a nursing home outbreak…
By Denise Hyde, The Eden Alternative Our minister began a sermon recently telling the story of the Zen master. The story goes that a university professor traveled to visit a famous Zen master to learn from him. They sat down and the Zen master served the professor some tea. While the Zen master was pouring…
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