Meeting Our Needs Through Restorative Practices, by Cameo Thorne (Cohort 27)
“It allows the members of a community to be heard, for their needs to be addressed, and to come to an understanding about how to prevent harm.”
Moments, Movements, CLP Alum Commitments (a community-wide invitation to respond)
How are you showing up? How will you show up? What commitments are you living or evolving into right now? Please share...
Faith and Redemption, by Dr. Karen DuBois-Walton (Cohort 9)
"Politicians may feel outrage over what happened in Minneapolis, but racism is happening everywhere. If you are listening, hear this: bring your outrage home and let it fuel your actions. And let it fuel all our actions..."
Our New Superhero is Everyday Man, by Bruce A. Lee Trammell Sr., CFLC (Cohort 29)
“We need a village, yes, and a village of all superheroes. Impossible? Not when we realize that the superheroes are You. Me. Him…”
Collectively Grieving What We Have Lost, by Merecedes Soto (Cohort 5)
“I want to heal my grief and I want to support us all in healing our collective grief, so that we can continue to be here for the children who are growing up in this new reality..."
Working from Home During COVID-19: How to Keep Your Cool, by Kyisha Velazquez, MS, LPC (Cohort 16)
“If you’re finding your creativity and productivity are suffering as a result of your routine being flipped on its head, that’s ok! Let me repeat: that’s ok…”
Leadership in a “VUCA” World, by Relly Nadler Psy.D., M.C.C.
"We have what the military call a VUCA environment: Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. There are many unknowns and many feelings, and this is when people need their leaders to step up, connect, support, and soothe..."
Our Adaptive Challenge – A Geek’s Perspective on COVID-19 in Community, by Bill Graustein
“How do we connect and grow as a community when we need to increase our social distance?”
Beekeeping, the Two-Party System and Getting Stung, by Jen Aniskovich (Cohort 10)
“...There are queen bees (politicians), drones (profiteers, the media), and worker bees (canvassers, poll counters, Congressional staff). And as the ideological extremes drift further apart, we are, increasingly, like different species trying (or not trying) to co-exist…”
Let’s Talk About Race (Part 3) – The Danger of a Single Story: Race, Whiteness and Privilege, by Gloria Graves Holmes, PhD (Cohort 7)
"I am choosing to end the silence by sharing three dramatic examples from my own life that show what racial privilege looks like from the perspective of someone who is neither white nor privileged by the circumstance of ‘race.’"