Posts by Paul Shadi Sanbar, M.A.
Show & Tell Intensive Outpatient (IOP) Workshop: Creating Your Future
The act of producing creativity is often a lonely journey filled with boundless possibilities and subjective results and yet the words often attached to ideas, the inspiration of creative expression, involve external objects. We float ideas and bounce them off sounding boards. Fundamentally, for a solitary idea to come to life and flourish, it often…
Read MoreYou Are Your Choices, Even the Ones You’re Afraid to Make
As I attempt to expand on psychologist Barry Swartz’s work on the ‘Paradox of Choice,’ I am aware that you could spend the next three minutes online reading about any topic you could imagine. Entering those three words quoted above into a search box, I am met with 3.7 million results right at my fingertips;…
Read MoreA Journey through the Four Stages of Learning (Developed by Noel Burch)
Walk alongside the team at Optimum Performance Institute as we explain the Four Stages of Learning and how we impact young people at every step along their life’s journey. First, imagine as if you were a 10-month old baby. If just for a moment, envision yourself in those shoes, or booties if you will. Peering…
Read MoreLike College, Just without the Late-Night Pizza
Creating an environment for young adults where working through past mistakes or forging positively focused experiences and then turning them into effective life habits is what Optimum Performance Institute is all about. With most of our participants being of the college-going age, OPI’s education department plays a considerable role in this effort to assist these…
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