At the start of this new year, I find myself thinking a lot about hope. Hope is a challenging concept to define or grasp…especially in a world where there seems to be an endless amount of hopeless situations. But to resist burnout, disillusionment, and discouragement, hope needs to reside somewhere in our hearts and minds. [...]
Archive | December, 2011
Why We Do Security Trainings
We felt the first raindrops just as the kidnapping scenario was about to begin at the Kenya military/UN training center. This came as a welcome relief from the intense sun for the participants, who would soon be hooded with black sacks and bound in hand restraints. During the next training session, they would be interrogated [...]
Celebrations
Here at the Headington office, we try to take a break away from our busy schedules to celebrate a birthday or recognize an achievement. Today, Alicia planned a staff Christmas celebration! We each shared and played our favorite Christmas songs, and Alicia prepared a small “snapper” for every staff member. The “snapper” consisted of: a [...]
Prolonged Stress & Changes in the Brain
Back in the ’80s there was an American TV commercial that showed a picture of an egg frying in a pan accompanied by the bold headline “this is your brain on drugs,” The idea was that if we could picture the damage happening to our brains, we would be less likely to be passive about [...]
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