by Heidi Webb | Jan 24, 2023 | 2023
As families change and grow, so too do the rhythms of their interactions. Over the course of many years’ experience in helping families move from the rupture of divorce to the challenge of restructuring, I’ve seen many people create beautiful, meaningful, new...
by Heidi Webb | Jan 18, 2023 | 2023
When we listen, what do we hear? As we hiked through the jungle, our guide would often stop when he heard sounds that he wanted us to notice. To my ear, they initially sounded like pleasant background music, or sometimes a not-so-pleasant cacophony, but I...
by Heidi Webb | Jan 17, 2023 | 2023
In our world today, we’re almost always engaging with digital devices. So much so that I’m almost certain you will be reading these words on a digital screen (unless this blog is being read to you aloud), and perhaps on your smartphone screen. I’ll admit that my phone...
by Heidi Webb | Jan 11, 2023 | 2023
On our first night in Costa Rica, we went on a night hike into the primordial jungle. Our guides gave us all flashlights before we set out, so we could all be on the lookout both for wildlife and for our safety as we hopped across a river by night. We...
by Heidi Webb | Jan 10, 2023 | 2023
Last fall, my husband suggested that we take a winter break family trip to Costa Rica; I responded by saying that I’d do anything and go anywhere, but didn’t want to be involved in the planning. With that carte blanche, he planned away. As it turned out, some...
by Heidi Webb | Jan 9, 2023 | 2023
Last week as I sat with my family over dinner on our final night together before leaving Costa Rica, we recapped our week in the form of “roses” (the best part of our week), “thorns” (the worst part of our week) and “buds” (what we’re looking forward to / what...
by Heidi Webb | Nov 21, 2022 | 2022
As we approach the fresh start of a New Year, and at this precarious and fragile time in our world, we give thanks to our clients, our colleagues and our newly trained Consilium practitioners, and honor them by making donations to: Mothers Out Front...
by Heidi Webb | Nov 1, 2022 | 2022
In a recent conversation with an architect friend of mine, she said that in addition to bringing the outdoors into buildings and enhancing views, the very qualities of light and air need to be beautiful and beneficial to make buildings all that they can be. Her...
by Heidi Webb | Oct 21, 2022 | 2022
In the Halloween spirit, this blogpost is going to focus on Stephen Vincent Benét’s classic 1936 tale “The Devil and Daniel Webster”- a little story that tells of how an American legal legend beat the Devil himself in a trial for a man’s soul. For context,...
by Heidi Webb | Oct 3, 2022 | 2022
This blog and blog series is being written by Adam Singer, who handles social media and forward-facing content for the Consilium Institute. He has read the She-Hulk comics, and will be analyzing the TV series in terms of how it portrays legal issues and court...
