“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 aspiring 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 [...]
#10 of ten constructive, nurturing ideas: Nurture
#10 of 10 helpful, constructive, nurturing ideas. Nurture. Care for yourself, your emotional needs, your physical needs, your spiritual needs. Your ability to nurture others will come from the place of being resourced yourself. [...]
#9 of ten constructive, nurturing ideas: Meditate
#9 of 10 helpful, constructive, nurturing ideas. Meditate. Every day at the same time, MIT hosts a meditation for 10 minutes. How beautiful is that. It is open to the entire world, all who [...]
#8 of ten constructive, nurturing ideas: Routine
#8 of 10 constructive, nurturing ideas. Routine. I give a frame to the day. We are ritual creatures. I want to be conscious about it. How often / when do I want a shower, [...]
#7 of ten constructive, nurturing ideas: Reminders
#7 of 10 helpful, constructive, nurturing ideas. Reminders. I write reminders on my windows and mirrors about breathing, nurturing, welcoming, remembering. I bought a chalk-marker, the kind that washes off windows and glass. I [...]
#6 of ten constructive, nurturing ideas: Air
#6 of 10 helpful, constructive, nurturing ideas. Air. I air out my home if the weather allows. I open all the windows and get stale air out, fresh air in. Some advice has come [...]
#5 of ten constructive, nurturing ideas: Seasons, rhythms
#5 of 10 constructive, nurturing ideas: Note the seasons and rhythms. As the pandemic began taking over the news and then our news feeds on social media, and then our lives and behaviors, and [...]
#4 of ten constructive, nurturing ideas: Immune system appreciation
#4 of 10 helpful, constructive, nurturing ideas. Appreciate Time Scales of the human immune system. As the pandemic began taking over the news and then our news feeds on social media, and then our [...]
#3 of ten constructive, nurturing ideas: Plants
#3 of 10 helpful, constructive, nurturing ideas. Plants. As the pandemic began taking over the news and then our news feeds on social media, and then our lives and behaviors, and maybe economic futures [...]