Why Long Emails Don’t Help Departmental Tensions (5 minute coaching)
Diana takes a quick look at inflammatory responses in the human body to illuminate the differences between helpful responses to departmental tensions and those that are not.
Navigating Together – An In-Person Resource – April 2025 in CT
Navigating Together: In-Person Resources to Meet the Times Saybrook, CT April 28 – May 2, 2025 1 to 4 Nights For those of us who work with or in higher ed, these last few months been interesting (and yes,…
Navigating Together: Support and Strategy Sessions for Higher Ed
Navigating Together: Support and Strategy With the new federal administration’s changes to funding agencies and so on, we are all in uncharted territory. Kardia Group has teamed up with Crystal Clear Consulting to offer virtual space (via Zoom) for those…
Transformational Education for Academics: Learn.KardiaGroup
Transformational Education for Academics: A New Way Kardia Group has been providing transformational education for academics for many years through our coaching, consulting, workshops, retreats, facilitation, and other programs. We’re now in the process of creating an additional way to…
Intent vs. Impact: Narrowing the Gap
Impact vs. intent: Yes, I’m talking about that much-dreaded moment when someone tells you that something you’ve just said or done hurts or has a negative impact in some way. Perhaps it came across as racist or sexist (or both),…
From In-Person to Virtual: Start with compassion
Have you been compelled to go to online meetings (and/or classes) by your institution’s coronavirus responses? Or perhaps your city’s or state’s restrictions? If so, think about this: almost everyone in these circumstances is likely to be in crisis and/or…
From In-Person to Virtual: Creating Virtual Meeting Norms
How do we go about setting up good virtual meeting norms (especially in a coronavirus-induced quick move to virtual meetings)? Well, let’s start with this: what does a good virtual meeting look like? The purpose is appropriately defined, the right…
From In-Person to Virtual: Head, Heart, Hands
The coronavirus pandemic affects all of us, in unprecedented ways. Right now, most of us are facing increasing restrictions on our physical movement, forcing us to change how we conduct business and live our lives. We are noticing that, in…
A New Mission
We’ve been pondering the question: Is academia worth it? It’s because of deadlines and emails accumulating until there’s no time left at all, faculty meetings that go nowhere or make things worse, toxic colleagues that no one seems able to…
Ruminations from Diana
I’m organizing a coaching group, or a community dialogue, or a respite space, or maybe it’s a revolution. It’s a way to respond to the growing number of faculty who contact us with the question, “Is this worth it?” They…
