by Jerome Paige | Jun 14, 2020 | DC History & Public Policy, Making Happen, Public Policy Adventures
On Saturday night, I watched in horror as Rayshard Brooks was murdered. Sunday morning, “I woke up with my mind stayed on freedom.” What is “freedom?” How does it happen? Freedom=Agency Freedom Freedom from Control: The struggle to expose what’s keeping us trapped...
by Jerome Paige | Jun 13, 2020 | Cultural Connections -- HumanitiesDC...DC Living Heritage Network, DC History & Public Policy, Mind/Body/Spirit/Shadow Explorations, North Portal Readers & Beyond, Public Policy Adventures
This sign beckons us to remember and say their names. I noticed it in a neighbor’s yard on 16th St. NW DC about two blocks south of the Circle during my Friday night my walk through my neighborhood. A week ago, neighbors had gathered along to support the...
by Jerome Paige | Jun 7, 2020 | Cultural Connections -- HumanitiesDC...DC Living Heritage Network, DC History & Public Policy, Featured, Public Policy Adventures
Given the events since the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, I reviewed a set of ideas that were in my files. I had summarized my thinking with hopes to develop the analysis I had outlined. I can’t find a date for these notes, but I most likely made them in the...
by Jerome Paige | Jun 7, 2020 | Cultural Connections -- HumanitiesDC...DC Living Heritage Network, DC History & Public Policy, Public Policy Adventures
On September 11, 2018, I provided comments to attendees at the HumanitiesDC showcase of the projects that had examined Washington DC in 1968. Based on my work with the DC Living Heritage Network, I suggested a “Gentrification Narratives Framework” to help us...
by Jerome Paige | Jun 5, 2020 | DiSC...Strategic Planning....Communications.....Team Building, Organizational Development Expeditions
JSP&A Strategic Planning Maturity Model (SP-MM) I am a fan of “stages of development models” or “maturity models.” Below is a model that we have developed. We base our model on our experiences with the HCWDC and other clients. We use this model to...
by Jerome Paige | Jun 5, 2020 | DiSC...Strategic Planning....Communications.....Team Building, Organizational Development Expeditions
New from Everything DiSC®! Introducing Everything DiSC® Agile EQ™, a classroom training and personalized learning experience that teaches participants to read the emotional and interpersonal needs of a situation and respond accordingly. Contact me to learn how you can...
by Jerome Paige | Jun 5, 2020 | Meditation: A Gateway Knowing, Being & Action..., Mind/Body/Spirit/Shadow Explorations
June 5, 2020…. 85 classes in 75 days…. This is a “personal best.”…. In the Summer 2013, I completed 71 classes in 75 Days. Back then, I had fallen off my bike and fractured my left elbow and ring finger. My goal was to practice every day...
by Jerome Paige | Jun 5, 2020 | DiSC...Strategic Planning....Communications.....Team Building, Forensic Economics Investigations, Organizational Development Expeditions
DiSC® provides lawyers quick guides to understand what drives jurors by observing their behaviors. A juror’s observable behavior is what they do and how they do it; what they say and how they say it; what they write and how they write it; and what they express and how...
by Jerome Paige | Jun 2, 2020 | Mind/Body/Spirit/Shadow Explorations, Public Policy Adventures
A couple of days after May 24, 2020, the “breaking news” was a white woman who called the cops on a black man in Central Park in New York City. In the video that the black birdwatcher took showed a hysterical white woman fabricating a story about being...
by Jerome Paige | Jun 2, 2020 | Cultural Connections -- HumanitiesDC...DC Living Heritage Network, DC History & Public Policy, Public Policy Adventures
To Gain Statehood, must DC wait until it’s predominately white? People earnestly and frequently ask me this question, as we watch the percentage of the black population in the city dip below 50%. My answer: Maybe. Maybe not. I equivocate because I believe that...