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		<title>Connecting Words and People in Community: Uniting Threads of Identity</title>
		<link>http://www.guidingchange.org/blog/2011/08/14/connecting-words-and-people-in-community-uniting-threads-of-identity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come join me in a writing workshop I am co-facilitating on September 18, 2011.  We will be using writing and creativity exercises to explore how the individual threads that make up our identities connect us to the community beyond ourselves. For more information, click here. I hope to see you there. Share on Facebook]]></description>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Learning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Authenticity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Courage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rugged Individualism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vulnerability]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deb</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Change, Transition and Transformation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Connections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metaphors and Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quilt of Humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Authenticity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Knicks Poetry Slam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spoken Word]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth]]></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 [...]]]></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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Quilt of Humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality and Reflection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bell hooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Class and Classism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumerism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Materialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quilt of Humanity Model]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rugged Individualism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wal-Mart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[where we stand: class matters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Youth]]></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>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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Equity and Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metaphors and Stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quilt of Humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race and Racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arab]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palestinian]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reparation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sandy Tolan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Lemon Tree]]></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 [...]]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[Metaphors and Stories]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Context]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dianne Setterfield]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Thirteenth Tale]]></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 never [...]]]></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[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Equity and Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quilt of Humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quilt of Humanity ModelTM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Class and Classism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumerism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fisher Island]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gold Farmers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Materialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Privilege]]></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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Equity and Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Healing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quilt of Humanity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quilt of Humanity ModelTM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bell hooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Class and Classism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Consumerism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Imperialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heterosexism and Homophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Materialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reparation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[where we stand: class matters]]></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 up [...]]]></description>
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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[Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Quilt of Humanity ModelTM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Appreciative Inquiry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Class and Classism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexism]]></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. Micha is legally blind and suffers from a severe over bite.  In addition to the [...]]]></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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality and Reflection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Appreciative Inquiry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Igbo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Privilege]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roman Catholic Church]]></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 [...]]]></description>
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