<![CDATA[CAST Canada - Toms Blog - Ponder and Mull]]>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 07:45:37 -0500Weebly<![CDATA[I am Positive! ]]>Mon, 19 Dec 2016 22:38:05 GMThttp://www.cast-canada.ca/toms-blog---ponder-and-mull/i-am-positive<![CDATA[BALANCE AND NUANCE SERIES - Focus on the negative - or fail. ]]>Sun, 18 Dec 2016 14:38:56 GMThttp://www.cast-canada.ca/toms-blog---ponder-and-mull/balance-and-nuance-series-focus-on-the-negative-or-failHi, 
There can be a tendenccy  to focus on the postive, to avoid the negative. 



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]]><![CDATA[Part of Being 'Present' is Being 'Ready to be Transformed']]>Sun, 17 Jul 2016 12:38:56 GMThttp://www.cast-canada.ca/toms-blog---ponder-and-mull/seed-ready-tobe-jhjtransfomedIn the week of July 9, 2016 Ross Douthat was writing in the New York Times about global cosmopolitanism and arguing that, 
​     " Genuine Cosmopolitanism is a rare thing. It require comfort with real difference, with forms of life that are truly exotic relative to one's own. It takes a cue from a Roman play right "Nothing human is alien to me." and goes outward ready to be transformed by what it finds."

 This is an exciting way to look at the stance needed to be a successful health/helping professional. 

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