Think about a time you were in a room,....a meeting, a social gathering, a classroom, where the unspoken rules seemed clear to and were being followed by everyone else, but did not feel like a fit to you. Maybe you navigated it. You watched, adapted, mirrored. You did what was needed to move through the space without drawing the wrong kind of attention. Now ask yourself: who was doing the work of understanding in that room? "The assumption, often unspoken, is that the person

Let's start with the language you speak, your first language. Bridging the Gap in Language Learning Are you beginning to learn or have previously learnt the basics in a second language or a third language? When it comes to your non-fluent language, take a moment to consider the gap between that language and all you think, feel, or experience in your native language, which is rooted in cultural experience. As you try to bridge that gap, consider the time it can take you as you

Grief: A lone carousel illuminated by the warm sunset light in peaceful surroundings. So many of us have been led to believe when it...