The Civility Zone

01/15/2026

Greetings All. My cousin Maresha is in this new movie "Dead Man's Wire". Please go out and see it.

01/01/2026

Paying careful attention to energy flow is critically important. Recognizing when energy shifts, becomes toxic, or represents peace is essential to living well.

11/28/2025

11/23/2025

People are walking amongst and sharing space with us while suffering from an Invisible Disability (ID) [look it up, it's real]. These people are struggling to keep it together and trying to protect themselves from human cruelty, especially in the workplace that is sure to come their way should they be discovered.

In my work, I teach people in the workplace how to treat people well and use their power for good, particularly those in leadership positions. In education workplaces, there are many people in power positions (i.e. teacher, professor, administrator, president, superintendent, etc.) who are not thinking about how their words, actions, decisions, and denials will trigger a person with an ID. Before you know it, harm happens and now everyone is responding to crisis.

Recently, a friend who works at a community college shared that a student and front desk clerk almost had a physical fight. In a nutshell, here's what happened...

-Student Services office closes at 4:30 pm
-Student arrives for service at 4:23 pm, 7 minutes before closing.
-Clerk says we are closed.

Well, a back and forth, cell phone recordings and eventually escalates to a war between the student and clerk.

The TV show clip shows how a leader [played by Quincy Tyler Bernstine] should respond when engaging with people. The good part is the Anne Hathaway character felt comfortable to tell and the QTB character used her power for good to put the AT character's mind at ease.

Most people are walking while traumatized with an ID. It is critically important that we consider others, watch our words and actions, and use our power for good.

This I know.

11/19/2025

I am so inspired by courageous people, who use their power for good even when systems and agents say you should not.

09/05/2025

Greetings All

If you love films and festivals, we would love to have you volunteer at this year's Oakland International Film Festival, September 10-20, 2025. If interested, please send an email to [email protected]

03/12/2025

Except from "On Tyranny..." by Timothy Snyder