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Your Children Will Embarrass You
Children have a knack at highlighting your weaknesses. They will do things, both in public and in private, that will make you question...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
3 min read


The Story of My Red Pants
Where are the places and memories that have brought you great wounds and great suffering?
Dr. Emi Garzitto
3 min read


Where is the Silence?
There is no Sleepy Hollow on the internet, no peaceful spot where contemplativeness can work its restorative magic. There is only the...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
2 min read


Plight of Early Adaptors
We survived by telling stories. We survived by creating lies. We arrive on this small blue planet very late. This massive interconnected...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
4 min read


What is the Difference Between Conflict Resolution and Conflict Alchemy?
In my LinkedIn interview with Jessica Bennett I talk about how conflict alchemy seeks to address the root causes of conflict in the hopes...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
1 min read


Can We Gamify Trust Building in Workplace Culture?
Trust is not just about spending time with staff. Building trust in a workspace requires more than time for coffee chats, team building...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
3 min read


Physical Chores Calm Our Nervous System
We survived by working together in collectives. Physical chores help calm your nervous system, help build resilience and problem solving...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
1 min read


Managing Conflict in Remote Working and Learning - A Podcast
I recently got a chance to talk to a wonderful colleague from a long time previous project that my sister had set up in California. Â It...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
1 min read


Skin Hunger
Touch plays a crucial role in our brain development. Find ways, within your 'safe bubble' zones to give and receive meaningful physical...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
1 min read


Don't Tell Me to Smile!
Photo by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash If I am asking you to so something you don't feel like doing, I am not helping you, in fact I am...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
1 min read


What Are We Doing About What Technology Takes Out?
Photo by Elena Mozhvilo on Unsplash Technology is moving into the educational sphere in an ever-increasing way. The BC Ed Learning Plan...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
4 min read


We Should Rarely Use the Word Bully
One of the great learning in my years as a vice principal, through countless investigations of disputes of all kinds, rarely will you...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
3 min read


CDs and Paradigm Shifts
Back in the technology boom of the 90's, I was an avid reader of the magazine Fast Company. I still have some of the articles, tucked in...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
3 min read


It Does Not Have to Be Hard
Photo by Lukas Leitner on Unsplash Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
3 min read


Resilience and Video Games
Easy to learn, hard to master. This is the goal of every video game developer. Â It is the hallmark of the gaming industry. Â It allows a...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
3 min read


Your Brain on Perseverance
One of my goals for 2017 was to increase my skill at swimming so that I can eventually overcome my fear of swimming in open water. As a...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
3 min read


Racial Profiling and Bouillon Powder
I am a little nervous going through American customs. My husband's skin colour and last name meant that when we were dating during the...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
2 min read


Say Your Name! Notice Your Feelings!
Photo by Andre Hunter on Unsplash Your brain knows your name. The millions of times you hear your name and respond to it have created a...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
2 min read


Some Suffering is Necessary
When my mother was a little girl in Northern Italy on a small family farm, she would  watch baby chicks hatch out of their eggs. She was...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
3 min read


Be Still
It is evening, we are both tired from the travelling and colds that keep lingering in our lungs. We sit outside the balcony of our unit...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
1 min read
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