A New Year - a New You

 Consider Humanism!

Whatever it is you don’t like that is going on in your professional or personal life – you can change it. Things don’t have to be the way they are. We can change things and make the world a better place for everyone to live if we take responsibility to do it and approach our problems using a combination of love, compassion science and reason. 

The first course I created was a course on how to live ethically and effectively as a Humanist. It is called Living Made Simpler.  https://humanistlearning.com/livingmadesimpler1/ This 6 hour video course will teach you all about how a Humanist goes about living a happy and fulfilling life.

If you are learning about Humanism, or even if you have been considering yourself a Humanist for a while, people have really benefited from this program.  See some of the reviews below: 

“I am finding it is giving me a greater grounding in my decision making, along with explaining my reasoning to others. … I read the bible and went through all the other major religions looking of answers as a kid, but did not realize what I was looking for was ethics, not theology, to answer my questions of why we should do things.  I did come close though, I came across Confucius, and better yet, I found Mencius who was more coherent in explaining Confucius’s ideas. But, they too lacked a structured reasoning checklist as your “Be Compassionate, Be Responsible, Be Honest”, which I now filter daily issues with. Thanks for the guidance, every much appreciated.” – Jakers

“Thank you for a most interesting course that gave me plenty to consider and a chance to rethink/confirm my own beliefs” – J. McNally, Sarasota

“Thank you for your provocative and enjoyable presentation of this basic introductory course on Humanism. Your slides and lectures were excellent and your interactive style fostered provocative class participation. I highly recommend this course. I always thought of myself as a Humanist and insights from this course gave me a lot to think about.” – G. Deutsch, Sarasota FL

“Living Simpler was definitely an interesting review of fundamental aspects of life that can benefit much from the humanist worldview,  such as ethics,  critical thinking and personal responsibility.   Weekly themes of the course were well selected and clearly presented.  I really enjoyed going through the course.” – P. Franko, Brazil

If you have been struggling in any area of your life, stepping back to think through HOW you think about your problems can be very beneficial.  So go ahead and register today.  https://humanistlearning.com/livingmadesimpler1/

Gratitude for the past year - looking forward to the next

This past year has been amazing for me.

I got to go to India on business to speak at a Happy Workplace Conclave put on by my new friend Mukund Trivedy. While there I got to speak to the teachers at the Shri Ram Schools about how to stop bullying in the classroom using behavioral science.

I was asked by Business Ethics Press to write a book about Applied Humanism in Business Management (first draft done) to come out in the next year.

I have published a lot of my talks as DVDs, streaming videos, paperback books, ebooks, audio books and online courses. https://amzn.to/2r4VWCH

I am a board member of the USA Chapter of the International Humanistic Management Association and have been interviewing experts in humanistic management in HRCI & SHRM approved online webinars. http://humanisticmanagement.international/videos-from-ihma/

And starting tomorrow - I am a board member for the Center for Freethought Equality. http://www.cfequality.org/

This is all in addition to my regular work of providing personal and professional development training programs to individuals and groups - which you should totally check out and hire me for your group. https://humanistlearning.com/jennifer-hancock/

What will happen next year? I don't know - but I hope I get the opportunity to share my knowledge with even more people and if someone wants to hire me to do a training in India, Japan, England, German, China or really - anyway - please let me know.  In particular - I would like to be in Mumbai around the time of Shahrukh Khan's birthday. Hint hint.

For now, as I reflect on the past year, I feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude. I am both amazed at how much love I experience and see in the world with good people doing good work trying to make their corner of the world - better.

There is a lot of fear in the world. I feel it too. But I chose, as a Humanist, to focus on what I can do, here and now, to make things better. For myself, my family, the people I know and the world in general. I hope you will do the same.

Jennifer Hancock Dec 31st 2018 - Looking forward to what the future brings.

One Ginormous Family

Humanists recognize that we are all humans. Regardless of our differences. And that our common humanity matters.

Happy New Year. I don’t normally suggest resolutions for people. I tend to think that we should be changing our behavior as needed all year long. Regardless, I do have one suggestion for a resolution that  I think it would help you to adopt.

Resolve to remember that we are all one big ginormous family. You are genetically related to all the other humans, plans and animals on the planet. You are created out of the same building blocks that make up our universe.

Just like any family, there may be times when we don’t get along. However, ultimately, we do share a home with all the other life on earth and we would be wise to make the best of it and not tear down our house in an attempt to control everyone else.  After all, if we tear down our house out of spite, we will be left with nowhere to live and that would be incredibly short sited.

So, whether your current cause of angst is politics, interpersonal relationships or ecological, always remember, we are all part of one ginormous family and we owe it to ourselves to make an effort to get along.

Have you reached out to others beyond your comfort zone lately? How did it go?