John Trumper: Work with the Maori
This first interview focused on John Trumper's work with the Maori in Northern New Zealand. …
Leadership in the Midst of Heath Care Complexity I: Team Operations and Design
Jeremy Fish, M. D. and William Bergquist, Ph.D. There is good reason to believe that the leaders of health care systems in …
Lay Me Down to Sleep: Designing the Environment for High Quality Rest
I report on the preferences noted by our Pathways to Sleep survey respondents to many elements of the sleep environment that…
The Wonder of Interpersonal Relationships VIc: Carol Gilligan as an Exemplar of Relating Midst Differences
Developmental theories about human development became quite popular during the second half of the 20th Century. It began wit…
Dreamer Beware: The Insightful Dreams of Sarah, Dan and Katherine
Potentially one of the most important (adaptive) but quite controversial functions of a dream is to alert the dreamer to som…
How to Snooze: Preparing for Sleep
Many of the “recipes” for successful sleep focus on broad issues—pathways to which we have attended in previous essay. These…
Robert, Elizabeth and a Girl on the Beach: Dreams, Hollywood and Mythmaking
Dreams have included content from movies and television, much has been the case with other art forms. However, movies and te…
Delivering Health Care in Complex Adaptive Systems I: The Nature of Dynamic Systems
We face a major challenge in seeking to lead complex mid-21st Century organizations—and this is particularly a challenge reg…
The Pelican: Structure, Dynamics, Function and Meaning of a Nightmarish Dream
A dream laboratory has just been established at the University of Oregon by Drs. Louis Breger and Les Davidson (Breger, Hunt…
Dorveille and Breath: Two Sleep-Enhancing Strategies
Two books have recently been published that speak to the challenge of achieving a good night of sleep. One of the books is a…