Category: Healing

Karen Tse and a Definition of Healing

Hear Dan read this post. Recent­ly, Siona van Dijk sent me a ref­er­ence to the extra­or­di­nary lead­er­ship work of Karen Tse, direc­tor of Inter­na­tion­al Bridges to Jus­tice (IBJ), a human rights orga­ni­za­tion that trains pub­lic defend­ers in Chi­na, Viet­nam and Cam­bo­dia. Karen grew up in LA’s Chi­na­town, went to UCLA and, lat­er, Har­vard Divin­i­ty school,… Con­tin­ue read­ing Karen Tse and a Def­i­n­i­tion of Healing

Who Heals the Healer?

Hear me read this post. Well, the obvi­ous answer is we are all one anoth­er’s heal­ers. Through sim­ple acts of appre­ci­a­tion, a will­ing­ness to lis­ten, the offer­ing of new per­spec­tives and ideas, just a touch, per­haps — all of which may trig­ger an inner con­nec­tion or two, and a res­o­lu­tion to some­thing that may have… Con­tin­ue read­ing Who Heals the Healer?

Points of Healing

Hear me read this post. The impor­tant thing to know is what is heal­ing. There is a place in all of us — a dif­fi­cult spot — where some­thing is felt that is lit­er­al­ly unbear­able. It is too sim­ple to say what we feel is pain. It is a kind of pain: anger, embar­rass­ment, despair,… Con­tin­ue read­ing Points of Healing

World on Fire

I am repost­ing this from Daniel O’Con­nor’s great blog, Catal­lax­is. Daniel’s site offers a sophis­to­cat­ed dis­cus­son of enlight­ened eco­nom­ic mod­els. And it is clear where his heart is. Thank you, Daniel.  Daniel wrote: This lat­est video from Sarah McLach­lan is a pow­er­ful way to think about issues of price and val­ue… specif­i­cal­ly, the very dif­fer­ent… Con­tin­ue read­ing World on Fire