Neighboring professionally with Joseph Porcelli

Author: Joseph Porcelli

  • People are Placed in Our Lives to Reveal Ourselves

    People are placed in our lives to reveal ourselves to us Andrew Krzmarzick

  • 5 Life Insights from the Dance Floor

    5 Life Insights from the Dance Floor: 5 Life Insights from the Dance Floor Don’t fight your practice Listen to your spirit, not your head Get as close to the bass bin as you possibles can If you don’t feel it, you will You’re right where you are supposed to…

  • 9 Effective Engagement Tactics Utilized at the DC One City Summit

    As an engagement strategist still recovering from chronic burnout as a result of my organizing efforts for the Boston Police Department and Neighbors for Neighbors (facilitating 250+ meetings a year for many years), I avoid spending entire Saturday afternoons at civic events like the plague. To my surprise, something extraordinary happened yesterday. I ended up staying…

  • 3 Tips on How to Make a Nametag Work for You

    Situation: Most people are NOT social butterflies and don’t like, and even hate, networking. Resolution: Engineer conversations by wearing your interests, passions, values, and skills. I’ve got a thing for nametags. Back in 2007, I wore one every day, all day long, everywhere I went, as a part of my Nametag Project.…

  • FORMULA: Space + Awareness + Intention = Place

    Place is space before awareness and intention. Bring awareness to space, add intention, and you have place. Bring others to place and you have community. Meridian Park Drum Circle, Washington DC, 9.11.2011

  • What Happened Versus What We Interpreted Happened

    Suffering attaches itself to story. Something happens, to me, and therefore, I am a victim. Right? Something happens, I have an experience of that something happening, I then make the happening mean something about me, when really I was just there, when, it happened. With this distinction, experience is up…

  • 5 strategies on how to not be tactical

    Writing the title of this post made me chuckle. It reads like a business post. It’s has a number in it and the title is short and to the point. My inclination is to be strategic and tactical. My professional work and community commitments require me to behave this way.…