Overcoming Psycho-Cultural Obstacles — featured track.
Before the Ph.D. from UConn, before the Fordham Law degree, before radio and television studios and the practice in counseling psychology, there was a Jamaican streetboy running afoul with the law — who was also committed to government Boys’ Homes, then jailed three times over. Dr. Ragashanti delivers the keynote only he can deliver: the […]
Every culture hands its children a set of unwritten instructions on how to be a person. Some of those instructions are gifts. Some are weapons pointed at their own heart. Drawing on his training in anthropology, counseling psychology, and clinical practice — and on the hard-won results of rewriting himself from the inside out — […]
The hardest move in any human transformation is not really the actual work – it is the necessary shift in worldview that defines the quality and impact of the work. Dr. Ragashanti names the specific internal pivot that changed his life — the switch from living as an automaton activating predefined external scripts, to becoming […]
It’s a little cliche and a restating of the obvious, but it’s still quite true … the quality of our lives are directly the results of our choices. However, how to authoritatively balance our choices with the demands of our circumstances has long proved tricky for many. Transformation is not an event. It is a […]