This is the third MC training we have held for Montreal. Our accomplishments include presenting a more complete module on Cooperative Process as well as "certifying" a local team to present the posters and the concepts to local groups.
Update: I thought about re-writing this to update for everything happening in the Spring of 2020 but I felt that it still holds true as a statement in June 2020. People are still dying out there. I have spent quite a bit of time watching the news cover the Travon Martin issue and then checking in with myself and others in my life and their reactions to the issue. Fact is that even those of us who have met and processed our propensity for unconscious injustice and dismissal of issues that don't necessarily confront me (I don't live in Sanford, Florida), I have yet to see ANYONE in my communities step up and confront the issue. And so today it begins with me. I am curious and a little afraid that some people are using a variety of the surrounding issues of this case to shield ourselves from acknowledging and feeling that if the roles were reversed, if you could go to a place where you were touched by the injustice of a young man being killed for what he represented, or a wom...
Barb and Miguel, thank you for spending those great few days with our small group. It added a great deal to what I discovered in my first encounter with both of you in September of 2019. That was pre-Teams and Zoom days and hopefully there will be more in person collaboration between our small team here in Montreal. Sometimes my silence resonates. I recall some chatter on John's balcony with Miguel and others about musicians. This piece, original was by Simon & Garfunkel - a song I learnt in elementary school ... John - shared this with me a few years ago - it is super powerful: https://youtu.be/u9Dg-g7t2l4 Unfortunately. silence - in situations where individuals are hurt and discriminated against has no place in 2023.
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