by Tom DeWolf | Nov 27, 2009 | Peacebuilding, Trauma and Healing
How often do we engage in deep conversations with other people? How well do we listen? It seems to me that the unwillingness or inability to effectively listen to each others’ stories is a significant contributing factor to misunderstanding and damaged...
by Tom DeWolf | Oct 23, 2009 | Other Musings, Trauma and Healing
Last November I was privileged to participate with my dear friend and colleague Juanita Brown in a presentation before the Coalition of Essential Schools Fall Forum in Charlotte, North Carolina. Juanita worked for CES for a time. It is through her that I learned of...
by Tom DeWolf | Aug 22, 2009 | Coming to the Table, History, Genealogy, Race, Oppression, Privilege, Trauma and Healing
My first visit to Jackson coincides with my current reading of Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63, by Taylor Branch. Being in the community where many significant events occurred during the civil rights era greatly impacted my time there and served...
by Tom DeWolf | Aug 11, 2009 | Coming to the Table, History, Genealogy, Trauma and Healing
I spent last weekend in Jackson, Mississippi at the last of three retreats dedicated to discovering ways in which the tools of Re-Evaluation Counseling can be applied to the work of Coming to the Table. At our last retreat, in Richmond, Virginia, we spent important...
by Tom DeWolf | Jun 12, 2009 | History, Genealogy, Race, Oppression, Privilege, Trauma and Healing
June 12, 2009. 46 years ago today Medgar Evers was murdered in his driveway in Jackson, Mississippi by a white supremacist. He was the NAACP Field Secretary in Mississippi. Medgar’s efforts were instrumental in the desegregation of the University of Mississippi....
by Tom DeWolf | May 25, 2009 | Trauma and Healing
Today is Memorial Day which was established after the Civil War to commemorate the dead in both the North and the South. More than 600,000 soldiers died. Slavery was officially abolished. Other forms of re-enslavement and official discrimination against people of...
