by McKenzie Wren | Oct 26, 2016 | Blog, Communication, Facilitation
I had occasion to hear Dr. George Yancey speak on white privilege in the classroom. He has much to say on the subject of race from his unique perspective of being among the 1.1% of African-American philosophers and I can not in any way do justice to the depth and...
by McKenzie Wren | Sep 19, 2016 | Blog, Communication
People aren’t diverse and, in fact, neither are places. I could get all grammatically geeky here about why workplaces “aren’t diverse” but the point I really want to make is that people aren’t diverse. Workplaces have (or don’t have) diversity. Communities have...
by McKenzie Wren | Aug 8, 2016 | Blog, Communication, Facilitation
Sometime last year I stumbled on to the PBS show Call the Midwife. As a former lay midwife myself, I was immediately hooked. It provided a wonderful counterpoint to the last two shows I had been fixated on – Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones! Call the Midwife is...
by McKenzie Wren | Jun 27, 2016 | Blog
While on vacation (yay vacations!) I read a delightful book about a thwarted romance, the repercussions of which stretched over three generations. The original conflict stemmed from a harrowing experience that the individuals perceived totally differently. One event,...
by McKenzie Wren | May 20, 2016 | Blog
In Clarkston, GA where I used to work, there are refugees from all over the world. Today a colleague and I fantasized what it would have been like if we had actually been able to have the space and time to bring leaders together and ask them about the way that...
by McKenzie Wren | May 2, 2016 | Blog
All the good things in life take practice. If you are a doctor or a lawyer, you have a practice. If you mediate, you have a practice. Everyone knows that getting good at a skill such as piano, soccer or dancing takes practice. It takes practice to break old habits, to...
