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		<copyright>Copyright &#xA9; 2010 Guiding Change </copyright>
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		<title>Being Vulnerable = Strength and Courage</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2009/07/14/strength-and-courage-vulnerability/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Authenticity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Courage]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Healing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of us have been taught a dysfunctional view of what it means to be strong and courageous.  We teach our boys that being strong means never crying and never acknowledging their feelings – with the exception of anger, of course.  “Real men” don’t cry or show pain.  They are supposed to appear strong, rather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Authentic Voices of Youth</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2009/03/10/authentic-voices-of-youth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2009/03/10/authentic-voices-of-youth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Connections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metaphors and Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry Slam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quilt of Humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spoken word]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the privilege of attending the finals of the NY Knicks Poetry Slam, a competition among poetry performance artists.   The Knicks Poetry Slam is a five-year old program designed to use hip-hop and poetry as a vehicle to motivate and inspire high school students to express themselves through written and spoken word.
The poems were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simplicity vs. Consumption</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2008/12/11/simplicity-vs-consumption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Class and Classism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Materialism and Consumerism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mindful and Intentional]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quilt of Humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality and Reflection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bell hooks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Consumerism has reached a new low with the trampling of a man in a Wal-Mart Store by shoppers eager to obtain deep discounts on the day after Thanksgiving.   While shocking, this kind of behavior is a consequence of the messages in the United States we all receive about buying things.   The “Holiday Season” has become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Order a Copy of Repairing the Quilt of Humanity: A Metaphor for Healing and Reparation</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2008/10/15/order-a-copy-of-repairing-the-quilt-of-humanity-a-metaphor-for-healing-and-reparation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2008/10/15/order-a-copy-of-repairing-the-quilt-of-humanity-a-metaphor-for-healing-and-reparation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[About Deb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Connections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Equity and Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metaphors and Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power and Privilege]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quilt of Humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race and Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reparation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To order a copy, please send a check in the amount of $13.45 ($10.95 plus $2.50 shipping) to:
Guiding Change Consulting
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#6J
Brooklyn, NY 11238.
Or, to pay by credit card using Paypal, please click here and enter debhoward@guidingchange.org as the recipient email address.
To place larger orders and/or request more information about the work that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Stories to Build Connections and Create Change</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2008/03/27/the-power-of-stories-to-create-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2008/03/27/the-power-of-stories-to-create-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Change, Transition and Transformation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Metaphors and Stories]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the book, The Lemon Tree: An Arab, A Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, Sandy Tolan artfully tells the story of two individuals who grew up with dramatically different cultural “stories.”
Bashir Khairi, a Palestinian man, was six years old in 1948, when his family was expelled from the home his father built [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stories and Context</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2008/03/25/stories-and-context/</link>
		<comments>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2008/03/25/stories-and-context/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stories can differ completely depending on who is narrating them as well as the point in time that is seen as the “beginning” of the story.  In her book, The Thirteenth Tale, a mystery about a family, Dianne Setterfield speaks to this:
“I shall start at the beginning.  Though of course the beginning is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Class Privilege: Local and Global</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2008/02/04/class-privilege-local-and-global/</link>
		<comments>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2008/02/04/class-privilege-local-and-global/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Class and Classism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two articles in the New York Times illustrate the impact of class differences and the vast economic inequities that exist both in the U.S. and globally.  There is a continually growing divide between those who live richly and lavishly and those who barely make a living.
One article, Shop Stewards on Fantasy Island?, by Mimi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tangled Threads and Cultural Beliefs that Damage the Quilt of Humanity</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2008/01/01/tangled-threads-and-cultural-beliefs-that-damage-the-quilt-of-humanity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2008/01/01/tangled-threads-and-cultural-beliefs-that-damage-the-quilt-of-humanity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 19:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Change, Transition and Transformation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Class and Classism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Equity and Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Imperialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heterosexism and Homophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Materialism and Consumerism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quilt of Humanity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reparation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bell hooks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Part of the process of repairing the quilt of humanity involves mending the damage caused by such things as racism, sexism, heterosexism and classism, to name just a few.  To be effective in this mending process, we need to recognize that the threads of races, gender, sexual orientation, and class in particular are tangled [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Perpetuating and Spreading America&#8217;s Myths</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2007/12/12/perpetuating-and-spreading-americas-myths/</link>
		<comments>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2007/12/12/perpetuating-and-spreading-americas-myths/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:59:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Class and Classism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, I found myself watching the TV show, “Extreme Makeover.” This show is ostensibly about granting individuals their dreams.  In most cases, the “makeover” involves providing individuals with plastic surgery and other procedures to change their appearance.

In addition to the physical pain, she also endured emotional pain from teasing from other [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Ties that Bind?</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2007/10/01/the-ties-that-bind/</link>
		<comments>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2007/10/01/the-ties-that-bind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Connections]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is it about human nature that, unlike Divine nature, finds it so easy to focus on differences and make those who are different into the “other” (and often an other who is considered in some way “less than”)?
I was distressed to read an article in the New York Times (“Harsh Words Amid the Hallelujahs,” [...]]]></description>
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