A Wider Lens

Environment

The Ecology of Making Sense

Kenneth Silvestri Ed.D. on June 28, 2024

How do we make sense and live harmoniously with nature and amongst ourselves? Sense-making focuses on context over content while celebrating our complexity.

How do we make sense and live harmoniously with nature and amongst ourselves? Sense-making focuses on context over content while celebrating our complexity.

Relationships

The Art of Improvising

Kenneth Silvestri Ed.D. on May 28, 2024

With improvising there is an opportunity to sustain a synchronicity in our relationships and create new possibilities.

With improvising there is an opportunity to sustain a synchronicity in our relationships and create new possibilities.

Anger

The Ecology of Anger

Kenneth Silvestri Ed.D. on March 20, 2024

With Anger, you have three choices, aggressively bite, usually a fatal self-prophesy; do nothing and deal with unresolved consequences; or hiss, and increase your chances of resolution.

With Anger, you have three choices, aggressively bite, usually a fatal self-prophesy; do nothing and deal with unresolved consequences; or hiss, and increase your chances of resolution.

Fear

Hope as an Antidote to Fear

Kenneth Silvestri Ed.D. on February 27, 2024

Hope is only the beginning without an ending. It is sustained by mutual learning and is not a substitute for action, only a basis for creative possibilities and solutions.

Hope is only the beginning without an ending. It is sustained by mutual learning and is not a substitute for action, only a basis for creative possibilities and solutions.

Relationships

What It Takes to Sustain Significant Relationships

Kenneth Silvestri Ed.D. on January 5, 2024

It takes two to know one and knowing ourselves is an expression of all that is between us.

It takes two to know one and knowing ourselves is an expression of all that is between us.

Relationships

A Book Review of Nora Bateson’s “Combining”

Kenneth Silvestri Ed.D. on November 22, 2023

How our relationships organize and shape each other to form an ecology to enhance our interdependency.

How our relationships organize and shape each other to form an ecology to enhance our interdependency.

Relationships

How to Create New Relationship Possibilities

Kenneth Silvestri Ed.D. on November 1, 2023

In our Western culture, the systems that encompass each one of us, such as family, educational, political, and others become defined by their fragmentation.

In our Western culture, the systems that encompass each one of us, such as family, educational, political, and others become defined by their fragmentation.

Relationships

The "Win-Win Volley" in Relationships

Kenneth Silvestri Ed.D. on September 11, 2023

A win-win volley frees us from a dependence on content to make adjustments and achieve significant relational differences

A win-win volley frees us from a dependence on content to make adjustments and achieve significant relational differences

Relationships

The Process of Change

Kenneth Silvestri Ed.D. on July 7, 2023

The way to recognize that personal change is needed is to be mindfully present and assess your interactions.

The way to recognize that personal change is needed is to be mindfully present and assess your interactions.

Relationships

The Power of Storytelling

Kenneth Silvestri Ed.D. on June 6, 2023

The stories we all have to share are connected to our wellness and offer clues on how we can adjust our vulnerability and growth.

The stories we all have to share are connected to our wellness and offer clues on how we can adjust our vulnerability and growth.

Happiness

How to Sustain Happiness

Kenneth Silvestri Ed.D. on May 7, 2023

Celebrating our interdependency as a source for happiness

Celebrating our interdependency as a source for happiness

Unconscious

The Value Of Poetic Expression

Kenneth Silvestri Ed.D. on April 10, 2023

Poetic expression allows for improvisation and a means to transcend cultural constraints to attain clarity, wellbeing and respect of our interdependency.

Poetic expression allows for improvisation and a means to transcend cultural constraints to attain clarity, wellbeing and respect of our interdependency.

Relationships

Steps to an Ecology of Self and Relational Fulfillment

Kenneth Silvestri Ed.D. on December 27, 2022

When you create an ecological perspective, you can better take an inventory of how your temperament can make use of your skills.

When you create an ecological perspective, you can better take an inventory of how your temperament can make use of your skills.

Attention

In Pursuit of a "Harmonizing" Relationship

Kenneth Silvestri Ed.D. on November 1, 2022

Contradictions create a multitude of interpersonal problems; they can be exhilarating when successfully navigated or extremely stifling when missing the opportunity for solutions

Contradictions create a multitude of interpersonal problems; they can be exhilarating when successfully navigated or extremely stifling when missing the opportunity for solutions

Creativity

The Purpose of Conflict

Kenneth Silvestri Ed.D. on September 12, 2022

Is it time to listen and care for each other through non-adversarial forums that go beyond imposed fragmentation and separateness?

Is it time to listen and care for each other through non-adversarial forums that go beyond imposed fragmentation and separateness?

Fear

The Value of "Warm Data"

Kenneth Silvestri Ed.D. on July 22, 2022

How to create safe non-adversarial sharing forums to systemically mend and rise above today's everyday challenges.

How to create safe non-adversarial sharing forums to systemically mend and rise above today's everyday challenges.

Creativity

The Importance of the Aesthetic in Creativity

Kenneth Silvestri Ed.D. on May 28, 2022

Creativity emerges in the gap between inductive and deductive reasoning, something between the known and the unknown waiting to be heard.

Creativity emerges in the gap between inductive and deductive reasoning, something between the known and the unknown waiting to be heard.

Relationships

Our Relationships as the Source of Improvisational Possibilities

Kenneth Silvestri Ed.D. on March 31, 2022

How do we take advantage of what our human species innately knows must be altered? Have profound relationships that celebrate being interdependent with each other.

How do we take advantage of what our human species innately knows must be altered? Have profound relationships that celebrate being interdependent with each other.

Unconscious

What Your Legacy Can Tell You

Kenneth Silvestri Ed.D. on February 6, 2022

Finding your interdependency using the strengths of your legacy is your personal contribution to our species evolution.

Finding your interdependency using the strengths of your legacy is your personal contribution to our species evolution.

Education

The Use of Mutual Learning for Relational Self-Fulfillment

Kenneth Silvestri Ed.D. on December 21, 2021

In this time of year, the rewards of relational explorations lead to profound possibilities of warmth with family, friends, and our socioeconomic environments.

In this time of year, the rewards of relational explorations lead to profound possibilities of warmth with family, friends, and our socioeconomic environments.