“Reconciliation” Margaret Adams Parker

Today while walking across the parking lot I encountered one of our conference facilitators who asked me to say a word about “what happens when moral issues come up in conferences”. I peppered her with questions: how do these conversations differ from any other conversations in which there are intense feelings, difficult decisions and controversy [...]

Over the past few years, we've taken an interest in "contested hearings" in child dependency court. That's where the children's welfare system wants to remove a child from their home and one or more of their parents/guardians is "contesting" the order. It goes to court and the judge decides. In our [...]

When you've devoted your life to learning a helping profession — counseling, social work, medicine, etc. — it's hard to think that you might be part of the problem as much as part of the solution. Part of it involves recognizing and mitigating inequities in a multicultural society. Another part of it involves [...]

According to a study published in Live Science, it appears that they do. And if Malcolm Gladwell is to be believed, human decisions often depend more on what we think within the first two seconds of a situation than they do on any sort of group process. Meetings are fun to hate. [...]