Reframe and Let Collaboration Flow, in 2013

Just around the corner from where I live is The Herbal Path, a Chinese health and medicine shop.   Yesterday, I was looking at some of the diagrams they have pasted in their store window.  Those diagrams illustrated the meridians in our bodies, the rivers of energy within our body,  the Qi (pronounced “chee”) flow.   […]

Community Facilitators: Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!

The title said, “Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!”.  The title got my attention.  It comes from a recent TEDx presentation delivered by Ernesto Sirolli, in New Zealand.  The title drew me in.  The content kept me. Sirolli has worked for 40 years in the field of economic and community development.  His orientation […]

11 Ways to Commit to Restorative Justice Practices

When relationships don’t  matter, we are more inclined to do bad things.  There has been a lot of media in my neck of the woods this fall, around broken relationships, and doing bad things. I think there is no time like this time, to focus more on our relationships to each other, as a measure […]

A Thanksgiving Story

[There’s a place in my neighbourhood called Mitchell House.  It provides transitional, semi-independent residence, for young men aged 16-21.  Graham Kelly is the manager of Mitchell House, part of the Threshold Housing Society.  This is his story.  I first read Graham’s story in my neighbourhood’s monthly newsletter, dropped off at my door this week.  I […]

Go With Your Heart: Create Justice Solutions the Open-Source Way

We love our media.  Take away our media?  No way.  Alas, more media leads to both more ideas, and more arguing and conflict.  And, all that arguing can get pretty chaotic. So if you’re in a position of influence for creating justice solutions, how do you address all that complexity and chaos?  Go with your […]