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The Merge Magic

by Christina Lengyel

On Wednesday the 28th, I truly came to understand the impact of the Merge approach while I was at the Chester County Art Association’s Pumpkin Carve.  I have been learning about and working with Merge for a few months now, and I had built up a great deal of enthusiasm for the program.  It is [...]

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Mentoring as a Shared Experience

by Christina Lengyel

It is very plain that Western culture suffers some serious wounds.  In my undergraduate studies, I became much more attuned to the specific nature of our societal dysfunction.  I studied African culture heavily in my anthropology program, and I began to see that on a psychological level the advantages of living in a collective society [...]

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My Experience with Strengths-based Mentoring

by Dawn Mehan

As I was saying in last week’s post, when I started teaching it quickly seemed that really enjoying teaching would at best be a far off destination and that I, too, would join the other martyrs to tiredly serve the deserving but uncooperative youth. But much has changed for me since then. When I started [...]

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