Going through a Pandemic together has meant seeing each other and ourselves in a new light. Our friends and coworkers have become both more human and more remote.
As workplaces go hybrid, we can build on what we learned during the Pandemic. What we learned is that we do not need to trade-off relationships and results. Before the Pandemic, we may have thought that results could be meaningful without meaningful relationships.
Now, we can define a new era in which we continue to see our shared humanity on screen, and we feel it in our bodies. This requires bringing mindfulness to work. That is what causativity is about. Each week we publish The Causative Minute, and in partnership with friends in New Haven and around the country, we continue to pilot techniques to define this new era together.
Advisors
Chris Cannon
President, Strategic Services, Zuri Group
Alan Fine
Bestselling Author, “You Already Know How to Be Great”
David Gumpert
Author, “Burn Your Business Plan!,” “Gouster Girl,” and “The Raw Milk Revolution”
Umi Howard
Senior Director, McNulty Leadership Program, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
Lisa Kimmel
Director of Wellness and Education at Yale University
Tim Stringer
Productivity Coach, Consultant, and Teacher
The team
Eamonn Edge
Eamonn has spent his career supporting equal opportunity and access to information. He is a believer in trying new ideas and reflecting on perspective, always wanting to see if something can be made a bit better. Causativity aids in refocusing ownership and choice in daily life, and Eamonn is excited about how this tool could help a wider audience.
Michael Felberbaum
Michael is devoted to understanding connections between meditation, focus, learning, and high performance. As one of Causativity.org’s biggest advocates, Michael wants causativity to advance personal achievement and meaningful relationships in workplaces, schools and homes. Michael enjoys hanging out with his wife and kids, extended family and friends, and playing guitar and writing haiku.
Sean McAvoy
Sean McAvoy first learned mindfulness and meditation at the age of seventeen, and he’s been on that path ever since. A strong believer in empowering people to have more agency in their lives, he is Causativity.org’s lead writer and editor.
Reggie Solomon
Reggie is a curious listener and is one of Causativity.org’s let’s-move-it-forward champions. He is intrigued by what motivates people towards success inside and outside of the workplace. Reggie is excited about Causativity’s aim to help people leverage their mindset to create more meaning in their lives. He also enjoys Nutella, cabernet franc, Ibérico ham and mosaics (though not necessarily in that order).
Lauren Summers
Lauren Summers has been championing Causativity before there was a word for it. In her years organizing travel programs internationally and at Yale University, and developing habits around remote work, she has come to believe that that productivity is centered in the person, not in the place. Her curiosity about mind-body wellness led her to Harvard Divinity School, where she studied mindfulness and other forms of meditation along with global indigenous practices around health and healing. Lauren brings her experience to bear on questions around productivity, mindfulness and human performance. She enjoys salsa dancing, paddling, and cycling, discovering new places near and far.
In Memoriam
Generous as a spring. That is how to characterize Meredith Fahey, a friend and mentor at Yale University, whose bubbling curiosity, warmth of heart and clarity of thought, gave Causativity shape and meaning. Meredith passed away when Causativity was a nascent idea. Her vision for it was based on a favorite quote she shared: “Work and love make life sweet.” We dedicate Causativity in her memory.