Monthly Archives: May 2020

Teaching clients?

What could we teach our clients? :- Doug.

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Hear beyond listening

Reflective hearing is of highest value. Hear beyond listening: take in, assimilate the other. Reflect: explore further this path. :- Doug.

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Garden for flourishing

Our work is to create better conditions for life. We are gardeners making an environment for flourishing. :- Doug.

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Aspirations with you?

What ought be my aspirations in working with you? :- Doug.

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Safely home

We meet families in crisis and guide them safely home. :- Doug.

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Sanity lives family

I tend to work on projects, things needing doing at a consequential time in people’s lives. Big things are at stake—sanity, lives, family. :- Doug.

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Precedent specific universal?

Can we be a precedent? Can we be specific? And universal? :- Doug.

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Higher ground than crisis

Our work needs to be beyond getting our clients through the crisis. We must get them to a higher humanity. :- Doug.

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300-year challenge

The 300-year challenge: Can Storytelling Bring About a Higher Humanity? :- Doug.

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Dying these days

Dying these days lasts so long we see our lives trudge before our eyes :- Doug.

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Forward-looking generation

We are a forward-looking generation our eye on future possibles and aspirations seldom feeling the ground beneath our feet those ancestors and shunning to hear around us those others and species and formations making up our habitat and symphonia. What … Continue reading

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Is suffering intrinsic?

Joan Berzoff on Friday said suffering is intrinsic to dying. I ask if that is so. Or do we mistake the work, do we mistake arduous for suffering? Do we get in the way? :- Doug.

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Hear the lessons

Hence, a lot of thinking about what that transformation might be. My clients can guide me, ought to be the guides. But we can do more, much more for them, than simply the technical grunt work of the Medicaid application. … Continue reading

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Baker’s Implementing:

Baker’s Implementing. Baker seems to prompt things from me. Just this morning he spoke of the professional as transforming the client. This is a higher step than service and higher than experience: help the client to become better. :- Doug.

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Crisis changed family

This crisis has changed your family. In what ways would you like it to change you as a family and personally? :- Doug.

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Family to be?

What do you want your family to do? Whom do you want your family to be? :- Doug.

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Things we ignore

The things we ignore as attorneys—the feelings, the desire to have the family get along, etc—are the main event for the client and her family. We could help. :- Doug.

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