• When Social Contracts No Longer Work (2 of 3)

    There is an urgent need for new, constructive and explicit social contracts where leadership and law enforcement are held accountable for administering them fairly and justly. However, disrupting centuries of patterns and worldviews is not an easy thing to do. We have walked these paths before. It will take dedicated, intentional and sustained repatterning to put in place a new social contract that is explicit, accountable and just for all.

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  • Artificial Divides or Not?

    There is a river that runs through a county in Nova Scotia where we have been working with a client, hosting conversations about health care and community. Since day one of visiting, beginning with one-on-one interviews with community leaders, we have heard about the “east/west divide that is not really a divide”. Yet, in five

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  • Ability, Disability or Differently-Abled? What’s Your Worldview?

    We are more and more likely to encounter people who are different from us in some way. It could be physical, sexual orientation, gender, skin color, political or cultural. Or it could be with respect to what many consider ability or disability, or what we might call differently-abled. Each of us, when we meet a

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  • Our DEI Policy Is In Place! How Is It the Hard Work is Just Beginning?

    It is well known that having a Diversity-Equity-Inclusion policy in place does not necessarily mean that an organization is achieving any of its DEI goals and sometimes the situation gets worse. Why is this? Because having a policy does not automatically equate to increased diversity and, even more important, a workplace that feels welcoming and

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