Meaningful Action

Welcome to the Meaningful Action website!

This website is about engaging and participating in meaningful ways. A little bit of structure can go a long ways. This website makes available some resources that provide a bit of structure. I hope that they prove useful in supporting meaningful action.

• Teddy Bear Talk Support - Teddy Bear Talk Support helps people harness the power of talking out loud. 'Teddy Bears' are attentive listeners who hold space mainly just through presence and attention so that, by hearing what you have to say, you can find out what you think and what clarity and insights might emerge.


• Pick a Picture - Pick a Picture offers a way to spend time with images and share about them with others in a way that can help you to connect more deeply with yourself and others.


• Empowering Wisdom Parenting Circles - A place to explore parenting collaboratively with your children instead of imposing obedience, by noticing our patterns, welcoming all parts of ourselves, and gaining more choice in how we respond to what gets triggered in us.


• Structured Time Timers - Audio files for tracking time and/or taking regular 2 minute breaks.


• Script for running a Holding the Space Session - A modified version of the Clearness Committee.


• Conceptual Content Cognitive Map Method (3CM Method) - The 3CM Method is an extremely simple yet powerful method for externalizing your thinking on any topic. By writing ideas on cards and arranging them into groups, you create a visual map that reveals your mental model and helps you spot themes, conceptual relationships, and missing pieces. This process brings clarity to your own thinking and makes it easier to communicate ideas to others. This method can be used alone or with others.


• Other resources (on active reading and Attention Restoration Theory)