What is wellbeing and how can it apply to your workplace or community?

Are you a systems thinker? Are you sick of silos? Are you looking for a way to measure and to improve social progress in your community or even your organization? Then the Canadian Index of Wellbeing (CIW) may be a framework for you.   Based at the University of Waterloo, the CIW has been recognizedContinue reading “What is wellbeing and how can it apply to your workplace or community?”

Code blue: Hospital-patient communications

My dad was released from the hospital today after a month of ups and downs. During that time, my sisters and I spent plenty of moments at his bedside trying to keep track of which specialist was which and how the diagnosis and the plan were evolving daily, sometimes hourly. I thank God that he has comeContinue reading “Code blue: Hospital-patient communications”