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What Improvisation Can Teach Social Change Leaders

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He lead us on a series of improvisation exercises designed to teach important skills for networked leaders: empathy, awareness, celebrating failure, being open to change and more. This reminded me of Margaret Wheatley, who was the keynote speaker at a conference in Alaska where I was doing a workshop a few years ago.

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7 Words to Avoid During Thanksgiving (and All Year Round)

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Despite this celebrated alliance, bloodbaths largely followed. As a result of that long history, there are many features our language today that are rooted in genocide of Native Americans and remain insensitive. There is no alternative but the name of who’s being spoken to. This is often referred to as the first Thanksgiving.

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