Hi Folks,

If you are working to make the world a better place and you’ve been feeling numb or dispirited since the election, see the invitation below to a free workshop I’m offering tomorrow, Wednesday 13 November.

But first…

This week’s Plant Yourself Podcast: Brain Health is a Community Effort

This week’s podcast episode highlights the power of people working together to bring about big changes in their health destinies: https://plantyourself.com/brain-health-is-a-community-effort-drs-ayesha-and-dean-sherzai-on-pyp-609/

Doctors Ayesha and Dean Sherzai founded the Healthy Minds Initiative (HMI) to scale their impact on the tragic epidemic of dementia plaguing the world today.

HMI exists to empower communities to spread both the message and practice of lifestyle medicine. But in order to do that, the Sherzai's and their partners can't come in as experts.

Instead, they approach as curious partners, willing to learn, and willing to stick around and provide support for the long term, and not just until the latest research grant runs out.

In our conversation, we talk about the need for systemic change in research models that prioritize community engagement and sustainability.

And we talk about what sustainable progress looks like, and can look like—in other words, a blueprint for community engagement and empowerment that can create a grassroots, decentralized, democratic health movement.

Watch or listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts: https://plantyourself.com/brain-health-is-a-community-effort-drs-ayesha-and-dean-sherzai-on-pyp-609/

Workshop: Are you struggling to integrate your emotions and your work life following the US presidential election?

Many of us woke up sad, shocked, and scared on Wednesday morning. We saw the United States say yes to racism, misogyny, division, and totalitarianism, and no to what’s perhaps our last chance to give our children a livable planet.

Many of us have swung between hope and despair, empathy and rage, self-indulgence and self-care.

Many of us have ranted, consoled, and wondered what more we could have done. Some have second-guessed the politicians and the media, apportioned blame, and somehow sought the strength to keep putting one foot in front of the other.

And we still have to go work. To earn a living. To contribute to the economy. And, if we’re fortunate, we’ve chosen or stumbled upon work that’s more or less aligned with values.

So what do we do now?

Back to business as usual, to whatever extent our privilege allows that?

Give up and wrap ourselves in analgesic apathy?

Or some other third way, that harnesses both our love and our rage, our hope and our despair, our clarity about what is coming and our vision for what could be instead?

On Wednesday, November 13, at 11am US Eastern Time, you’re invited to participate in a free online workshop called, “What Now?”

It’s for professionals who still hear a calling to bring their best selves to work for the greater good, and could use a little space and support to process everything that’s in their hearts and minds.

Details

Time: 8am US Pacific Time | 11am US Eastern Time | 5pm Central European Time
Length: 60 minutes
Recorded? No (but if there’s interest, I’ll hold other ones to accommodate different time zones)
Format: Zoom meeting (“Hollywood Squares” style), with a combination of presentation, guided reflections, breakout group sharing, and integration.
Register for the Workshop

Questions? Reply to this email.

If you can think of another person who would benefit from this free workshop, please send them to this page to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctcOmuqT4rGd1ryTK6tOnxB7D-X1mIbk5N

Steadfastly,
Howie