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Embracing the “New Normal”
Library Media Endorsement Program Teachers and Students Use Technology to Help Learning Thrive, Despite Covid-19 With all of the benefits of bringing more technology into their virtual libraries and classrooms, students and teachers from Antioch University Seattle’s Library Media Endorsement program may never go back to “normal” again. Instead, they’ve embraced a “new normal.” In…
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GSLC Faculty and Thought Leader Shares Guide for Building and Sustaining Resilience
Graduate School of Leadership and Change Professor of Leadership, Management, and Service Dr. Aqeel Tirmizi recently authored “Building a Holistic Well-being Portfolio as a Pathway to Personal Resilience” for Medium, an online network of scholars and practitioners. The article offers a framework for preserving well-being especially in light of the current pandemic impacting the world…
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Announcing Antioch University COVID-19 Student Emergency Fund
I cannot do all the good that the world needs. But the world needs all the good that I can do. – Singer-Songwriter, Jana Stanfield Those words have been emblematic of the Antiochian spirit since its inception, and they are even more so today as the world faces the perils of a deadly pandemic. COVID-19…
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10 Ways You Can Help The Earth From Home
Today is the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day. While COVID-19 has impacted many cleanup activities and gatherings, there are many things that you can do to help the environment while you are social distancing. The Huffington Post has a list of 50 ways to celebrate Earth Day during coronavirus, including: Sign up for emails from…
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Alumna Dissertation Highlights the Pivotal Role of Personal Support Workers
Leadership development consultant, facilitator, systems thinker and PhD in Leadership and Change alumna Dr. Ellen Melis has published Understanding the Context and Social Processes that Shape Person and Family Centered Culture in Long-Term Care: The Pivotal Role of Personal Support Workers. This extensive dissertation suggest that empowering Personal Support Workers is pivotal to improving quality…
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In Difficult Times, Don’t Write Alone!
Dear Antioch Students, We hope you are staying safe as we continue into the Spring. For many of you, writing is now a more solitary endeavor, so we at the Virtual Writing Center wanted to remind you that you don’t have to write alone. We’re here to help and have also developed new resources for…
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Patient-Centered Primary Care: New and Evolving Roles for Psychologists
In this time of social distancing and meeting online, we really appreciate Dr. Sandy Blount speaking to us on April 20 about his work in Integrated Primary Care and his new book Patient-Centered Primary Care: Getting from Good to Great. The book has been described as “a handbook for patient-centered care for the present and…
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6 Skills to Cope with the Mental Toll of Sheltering in Place
The writer Ernest Hemingway famously said that there were two ways to go bankrupt: “Gradually, then suddenly.” He might also have been describing the ways life has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. What began as minor adjustments to daily routines quickly upended them, and today almost the entire U.S. is under some level of shelter-in-place…
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Parenting and the Pandemic: Getting Back to the Basics
Given the stress associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and how drastically it has altered so many people’s lives, we are all in search of ways to find comfort and support. Parents, themselves, are in a unique situation where they are not only adjusting to changes in their work (or even the loss of work), but…
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