Louis J. Alloro, M.Ed., MAPP

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Last week I had the great fortune of being with the Dalai Lama three days in two cities. The second of these visits brought me to Washington DC, where the Mind Life Institute presented an annual congress on learning called “Educating World Citizens” which brought together over 2,000 international voices.
The Dalai Lama participated in all [...]

She is an old soul with a young spirit who I met at a mutual friend’s cocktail party sometime last year. She and I were hanging out in the kitchen with several others talking about what we “do” – typical cocktail party banter. But when it came to Amanda’s turn to share, she had an [...]

I spent the past weekend in Florida visiting some old and new friends. It was amazing to spend time with Joe and Terry (the old ones) and their two-month old fraternal twins, Ariana Michele and Cruz Aiden (the new ones). How amazing it was to meet these little guys for the first time – [...]

I posted this on Facebook yesterday . . .
“Relationships are hard. All types. (Am eager to know what y’all think about this as I write this week’s newsletter, so speak up - please.)”
. . . because I wanted to see what would happen (see below for the results).
But as soon as I posted it, I [...]

As you may imagine, I come in contact with so many people - clients, friends, relatives -yearning for loving relationships - for real, loving relationships - the kind that make everything else all worth it. But for so many people, this is not reality. Either we’re in dead end relationships or none at all. In [...]

Last week I saw (from the first row, and in 3-D) Disney Pixar’s Up, an animated film about life, adventure, and friendship. The film certainly pulled on my heart string in a very “other-people- matter”-positive-psychology-kind-of-way. The film also speaks to this month’s PPND theme of fun.
In it, a young hopeful and optimistic Carl Fredricksen becomes [...]

Given the GEC (global economic crisis) AND my traditionally poor management of money, I’ve been thinking a lot on this idea of really what’s negotiable lately. I’ve come to one conclusion: everything.
Financially:
Think about it: you park your car on a lot on Eighth Avenue. You pay an astronomical $320 per month for the spot (extra, [...]

After getting an email from my sister Lisa this week entitled, “secret to a long life,” I’ve been wondering really, what it’s all about - for me. Then, serendipitously, I had the chance to do some action research this past weekend, which I spent in Cleveland, Ohio at my friend’s grandmother’s 93rd birthday. NINTY THREE [...]

“Love is in the air, everywhere I look around
Love is in the air, every sight and every sound” (lyrics by Paul Young)
Love is such a strange phenomenon. We all want it. We all need it. But do we all have it?

I recently learned of a very cool definition of love:
“Love is the flowing, the outpouring [...]