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1. Opinion/Brown: Personal growth never stops at the Academy
for Lifelong Learning
After 42 years of teaching middle and upper school, I finally retired. By then, I was
teaching the children of former students. There were colleagues on the faculty who
hadn’t even been born when I was already teaching at Cape Cod Academy
.
“
How old are you, Mr.B?” one of my seventh graders asked one afternoon
.
“
Oh, I’m old,” I said
.
“
No you’re not,” another kid chimed in. “Besides, we’re not gonna let you. We’re
going to rub off on you
”.
And he was right
.
My collapsing spinal column dropped my height 3 inches. My balding aluminum
hair has turned white but I could still think and love as well as ever. What was I to
do
?
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2. Lawrence Brown
That’s when I got recruited by the Academy for Lifelong Learning (ALL) at the
community college. Would I be interested in teaching folks from 50 on up? It’s its
own free-standing program. Adult students pay a modest fee to take a number of
subjects per semester. Faculty work pro-bono. Classes meet once a week with an
emphasis on discussion rather than lecture. Some classes run for 6 weeks; some
for 12, with a deep field of choices either way — over 70 new ones this fall
.
I’d be lying if I didn’t confess I still miss my kids every day. But adult classes have
much to recommend. Your classmates have lifetimes of knowledge and hard-won
experience. The joys of seeing kids discover things for the first time are balanced
by seeing the adult world through adult eyes. I had a woman — whose age we’ll
not disclose — who was a senior in high school when the Japanese bombed Pearl
Harbor. Smart as a tack, she remembered everything — and had a lifetime to
process it
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Teachers and students have lived through the same history, but the lessons
learned are unique to each. Generalizations and stereotypes just don’t work
.
The Academy for Lifelong Learning program dates back to 1987. In 2001, ALL got
established as a nonprofit and by 2004 had offices and classrooms in the

3. Grossman Building at the College. By 2020, membership topped 600. Then
COVID hit. The classes went on Zoom and instructors kept on teaching. This fall,
they’ll still offer classes on Zoom but finally, be back in the classrooms in person
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Story continues
I’m not crazy about Zoom — and neither was anybody else. Some faculty dropped
out, and some students, too. But we soon learned that Zoom has its virtues.
Students were taking classes from Florida, for example. I found I could do a
“screen-share” and bring my photography students into my office computer where
all my graphic apps are — and my students could look over my shoulder to see,
step-by-step, how things could be done. They could email me their work and I
could share it with everybody else before class even began
.
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And while COVID had us all isolated, we could still meet. Several of my students
lost partners, some of over 50 years. Maybe we were a pile of credit-card-sized
faces on a screen — but we were a community all the same — there for each
other when no one else could be
.

4. It’s not only academic at ALL. There are courses in arts and culture, on literature,
film and music, photography, history, science, philosophy and religion. There are
classes in poetry, writing fiction, politics and social issues … they’ve even offered
courses in origami and canasta. The new course catalog can be found online in
early August. Go to www.capecodall.org for detailed information on everything
you’ll need to know
.
Old age can be a lonely, lonely time. Education is never only about the lessons.
I’ve learned that what 14-year-olds need to thrive isn’t that different from what
84-year-olds need — what all of us need. We need connection. We need
stimulation, new and interesting things to think about … and people to give a damn
about us, to ask how we are and if there’s anything we need to be whole again
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Lots of new research is demonstrating that we hang onto our marbles a lot longer
when we keep thinking, stretching and learning new things. As we age, we lose
friends. Sad as it is, it can’t be helped. How can we find new companions? I think
ALL is one of the answers. And it guides us into communities with common
interests
.
In many of my columns, I’ve tried to let you know about all the good things
happening around us. All of them, taken together, make our community a civilized
place. All of them form a matrix of knowledge and kindness. So today, I offer you

5. another link to friendship and personal growth. Fall is coming. You’re never too old
to go back to school
.
Lawrence Brown is a columnist for the Cape Cod Times. Email him at
columnresponse@gmail.com
.
This article originally appeared on Cape Cod Times: Cape Cod: Academy for
Lifelong Learning offers community, classes
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William McGee's newly released "I Was Broken in All the Right
Places" is a thoughtful discussion of personal growth and
healing
"
I Was Broken in All the Right Places" from Christian Faith Publishing author
William McGee is an open discussion of what happens when traumas are left
unaddressed and the needed steps to overcome it all
.
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Right Places": a heartfelt message of hope for those in need. "I Was Broken in All

6. the Right Places" is the creation of published author William McGee, a loving son
and brother who was born and raised in Washington state
.
McGee shares, "Who do we become when our untreated traumas speak on our
behalf? How do we address the broken places in our lives if we never recognize
their existence? Most people that knew me or knew of me hardly knew anything
about me. Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, I grew up with my eyes wide
open to the world, but my heart closed off to its humanity, not because I was
taught this but primarily because of the effects of untreated trauma. I grew up
knowing God but not experiencing Christ, there is a big difference. Throughout my
life, I was known by many things—an athlete, a businessman, a gym rat, a player,
an alcoholic, a womanizer, a violent offender. But no one saw that I was broken.
They saw my circumstances but not my condition
.
"
This book exposes and edifies what hides behind the veil of our broken pieces
and what happens when those pieces go undetected. I Was Broken in All the Right
Places encourages us to find purpose among the pieces
".
Published by Christian Faith Publishing, William McGee's new book encourages
readers to face their broken parts and begin to truly heal instead of masking the
challenging parts of themselves
.
McGee shares in hopes of bringing awareness to the strength and courage
available to all through devotion to God
.

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9. Business owners who perceive stress as enhancing experience
personal growth and better engagement
You own a small business, and you find yourself stressing about, among other
things, staffing, payroll, supply chains, the economy and the latest strain of
COVID-19. Sure, you're overwhelmed, and you see the stress as debilitating
.
You're probably doing it wrong, says Samantha Paustian-Underdahl
.
Paustian-Underdahl, an associate professor in the Department of Management at
Florida State University's College of Business, has published a new study with
colleagues at FSU, Kennesaw State University and The University of Texas at El
Paso that explored the effects of stress-related mindset and coping behaviors on
health, engagement and personal growth among small business owners
.
It's all about mindset, she says
.
In the study, published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior, business owners
experienced personal growth and engagement in their businesses when they
increasingly saw stress as enhancing instead of debilitating. The study also
indicated that business owners experienced stronger benefits of this
stress-is-enhancing mindset when they believed their business might have been at
risk and needed to close
.

10. Driving home previous research cited in the study, Paustian-Underdahl and her
colleagues challenged a one-sided bad rap that stress has gotten in the media and
society
.
Though they didn't seek to debunk literature that demonstrates debilitating effects
of stress, the researchers wrote, "our findings suggest that a stress-is-enhancing
mindset can be a critical tool for business owners to deal with stressful business
challenges, such as those created by the COVID-19 pandemic
".
Paustian-Underdahl served as lead author of the study, which included co-authors
Randy Blass, a senior lecturer in FSU's management department; Kennesaw
State University's Joshua C. Palmer, who received his doctorate at FSU in 2021;
and Cynthia Saldanha Halliday of The University of Texas at El Paso
.
"
We were really pleased to find something that was theoretically relevant and also
practically relevant for small business owners during COVID," Paustian-Underdahl
said. "And for anyone who's stressed out, if they can reframe their mindset to think
about stress as potentially helpful, then they're more likely to respond to stress in
ways that are actually very helpful
".
Paustian-Underdahl said the idea for the study emerged in 2020 when she and
Blass found themselves discussing the stress on small-business owners from the
pandemic. They found a study at Stanford University's Social Psychological
Answers to Real-World Questions, or SPARQ, in which researchers randomly
asked participants to watch videos that portrayed stress as enhancing or to watch
videos that portrayed stress as debilitating. A control group watched no videos
.

11. The Stanford researchers discovered that people who had watched the
stress-is-enhancing videos saw stress as having more positive effects and that
people who had watched the stress-is-debilitating videos saw stress as having
more harmful effects. The study also found that people with a stress-is-enhancing
mindset responded better to stress and had more adaptive physiological
responses
.
Inspired by that study, Paustian-Underdahl and fellow researchers recruited small
business owners and directors of nonprofit organizations throughout the U.S. to
participate in what the researchers hailed as the first study "to examine the
theoretical mechanisms for when and why stress mindsets change individuals'
personal growth, engagement, and health—via coping behaviors
".
Researchers randomly asked half the participants to watch three short videos on
the Stanford site that showed them research and anecdotal evidence that stress
can be beneficial for one's health and performance. The other half of participants,
the control group, watched no videos
.
One video tells viewers that anxiety can help with cognitive performance. Another
video trumpets stress for the hormones it produces—rebuilding cells, synthesizing
proteins, enhancing immunity and "leaving the body stronger and even healthier
than it was before." The third stress-is-enhancing video says that stress releases
cortisol into your brain and "kicks your mind into high gear, heightening your
attention
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12. Paustian-Underdahl and her team measured the coping behaviors of those who
watched the videos and found that the participants increased their
stress-is-enhancing mindset and were more likely to engage in approach coping
and less likely to engage in avoidance coping, compared with those in the control
group
.
Approach coping involves planning ahead, seeking information and social support
and attempting to solve the problems that the stressor created, the paper says.
Avoidance coping ignores the stressor
.
"
Avoidance can be really harmful, because you're just kind of ignoring the stress
as opposed to trying to deal with it," Paustian-Underdahl said. "These small
business owners who engaged in more effective coping were more engaged with
their small businesses, had lower burnout and had better personal growth because
of the experience they were going through
".
She emphasized that the videos remain available on the Stanford website and that
she and colleagues encourage "small business owners, entrepreneurs and anyone
else experiencing stressful situations to watch these videos
".
More information: Samantha C. Paustian‐Underdahl et al, The role of stress
mindsets and coping in improving the personal growth, engagement, and health of
small business owners, Journal of Organizational Behavior (2022). DOI:
10.1002/job.2650
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