Insights and Perspectives

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I had originally conceived of our Community Appreciation Gala as an opportunity to say thank you to people we noticed making a difference in our community while also raising funds for our ongoing work.

Then came an “ah ha!” moment.

We weren’t just hosting a beautiful party, saying thank you, and raising funds. We were modeling one of the very tools we teach for building communities of belonging 

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In October 2017 I sat in a Northern Ireland Pub with some colleagues who had been spending time listening to the experiences of locals who had been harmed and done harm during the 30 year civil war there.

I was both drawn and repulsed by their truthfulness about what happened to them. 

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If I don’t care for the pain that people are experiencing (including my own), then it will be very hard to have peace with justice.

The political violence we witnessed this week with the public murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has deeply impacted millions of people in our country. 

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I began reading many of my close friends sharing their shock last Tuesday evening that Helen Ryde had died. I regret that I never met Helen. I’m only meeting them now through the many people that they touched, inspired and changed. Helen embodied a beautiful witness to belonging.

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It’s been six months since Laverne and I started Belonging, Inc., a nonprofit organization focused on addressing and changing all the ‘isms’ that create distance within us and between us. In our divided world this is a much needed and serious cause. So much is at stake.

Therefore we must dance!

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