by Sarah Beaulieu | Sep 27, 2013 | Truth About Sexual Violence
It’s hard to imagine, but less than 50 years ago, having breast cancer was a shameful thing. In my grandmother’s generation, women suffered – and died – alone, keeping their cancer a secret from family members and friends. The treatment available was crude and...
by Sarah Beaulieu | Aug 26, 2013 | Art of Intervention
If you have entered into conversation and dialogue about the issue of sexual violence, you may have heard the term “rape apologist.” While this term hasn’t yet made it into Webster’s Dictionary, an apologist is someone who “makes a defense in speech or writing of a...
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by Sarah Beaulieu | Aug 13, 2013 | Pregnancy, Parenting, and Birth
There’s nothing like a school or daycare potluck to bring on a burst of competitive parenting. Personally, I dread the cheerful closing, “Bring a dish to share!” because I instantly start to think about how everyone in the room is going to judge my lack of Martha...
by Sarah Beaulieu | Aug 8, 2013 | Art of Intervention
This week, I tried to help a blind man on the subway. I say tried because whatever I did was totally not helpful at all, despite my best intentions. I was waiting to get on a busy rush hour train as I saw a man with a white cane exiting from the subway car. He was...
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by Sarah Beaulieu | Aug 7, 2013 | Mini Truth Bombs
A few months ago, Noah Flower, a brilliant network weaver, put me in touch with Julie Sherman, founder of J Sherman Studio, a small design firm in Newton, MA. Noah thought Julie and her team might be interested in the work of The Enliven Project, and that The Enliven...
by Sarah Beaulieu | Jul 15, 2013 | Art of Intervention
When an injustice occurs, it’s human to be angry. Being angry is easy, and it feels good and cathartic. But in order to actually address systemic injustices, we need to be mindful of the ways in which we allow that anger to shape our response. Today, on a summer...
by Sarah Beaulieu | Jul 10, 2013 | Career and Leadership
Here’s the story of Johnny: Poor Johnny didn’t know how to read. And now he does. Here are the things that helped him: Free breakfast at school so he wasn’t so hungry that he couldn’t learn Training provided to his teacher about supporting literacy Training...
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by Sarah Beaulieu | Jul 8, 2013 | Career and Leadership
Lately, the non-profit sector has been depressing me, which is a challenge because it’s the sector I have committed the last 15 years of my life to serve. And I feel like a traitor articulating this depression out loud. Non-profit folks are supposed to be eternally...
by Sarah Beaulieu | Jun 25, 2013 | Career and Leadership
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, younger baby boomers have held, on average, 11 jobs between ages 18 and 44. This same cohort has experienced, on average, 5.2 spells of unemployment. While the numbers for Millennials might adjust slightly up or down, this...
by Sarah Beaulieu | Jun 18, 2013 | Career and Leadership
Development professionals are a unique breed. We are a critical part of any nonprofit organization yet our work lives are necessarily externally facing. We face intense pressures and high expectations, and while we are (often) compensated well for it, it takes its...
