Monthly Archives: September 2012

Appointment to the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater’s Counselor Education Advisory Council

I’m excited to announce that I have been asked to serve on the University of Wisconsin – Whitewater’s Counselor Education Advisory Council.  The council provides advice and guidance for the school’s counseling program.  I will be serving a multi-year term … Continue reading

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Small Changes…Big Impact

There is an exciting project taking off right now called Little Free Library.  If you haven’t heard of it you may have seen it.  The idea of the organization is to “promote literacy and the love of reading by building … Continue reading

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Expectations…the Other Side

My last post talked about expectations and how they differ from rules.  In this post I want to look at a different aspect of expectations.  While expectations of ourselves and of others are important, there is of course like all … Continue reading

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Expectations, Rules and Patterns

A client recently sent me a blog post about rules versus expectations.  It contained a lot of what I agree with.  Basically expectations are the general assumptions we make about other people…about how they will behave in certain situations.  Things … Continue reading

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