“We have agency.”
HEATHER HOFMEISTER
This website has a blog to further my mission to make connections. Connecting ideas – seeing things that hadn’t been brought together before – and connecting people: me to you, me to myself, and you to your own your highest potential.
Why read this? This blog’s raison d’être
Why a blog, why read this? This website has a blog because my mission is all about making connections. That means connecting ideas – seeing things that hadn’t been brought together before – and [...]
What is sociology? Why is it useful?
What is sociology, in a nutshell? The way I explain it Sociology is all about the connection between structure and agency. Structure affects and influences agency. Agency creates, changes, and reinforces structure. In any given [...]
What does sociology have to do with coaching? A Paradox?
What does sociology have to do with coaching? Or how can I be a sociologist and also a coach? Is that a paradox? One is about society, the other is about the individual, right? [...]
Books for ambitious women (and men)
Request from a recent webinar: what shall I read? I offered a webinar recently where a participant asked what books I would recommend, books that might give a window into the topics I was [...]
Kind. Merciful. Tender. Compassionate.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Ian MacLaren This era of the Coronavirus brings to stark light a recommendation that has always been useful: Be kind, for everyone you [...]
Ever tried something completely new and gotten resistance?
Ever tried something completely new? And gotten resistance? Have you ever been in charge of a meeting and right away, you get resistance? What do you do about it? I recently led [...]