There's plenty of injustice in the halls of justice. Thank you for highlighting this. I had never heard of "healing through law." Such a civilized concept we need to support. Actually, come to think of it, I do know of a juvenile court judge who practiced compassion in law before she retired.
Thanks for this, Chris. Personally, I have no doubt there are lots of compassionate people IN the system like the judge you mentioned. Couldn't be otherwise, could it? Yet if you ask me, it is the system itself, the institution, that has become virutally compassion-free. I am incredibly optimistic a) because of people like I mentioned here actually creating healing law practices and b) because I think the system was initially created to be more compassionate than it is and c) becuase we humans are just moving in that direction anyway. :) Thanks for playing.
Love it! I find a ray of hope in, as Chris and Steven mentioned, the philosophy of "healing though law". Even the very term "social violations" shows that there is compassion and a willingness to look forward with positive intentions to rehabilitate and work on saving our humanity instead of burying it.
It was one of the happiest days of my professional life when Salomon said to me, that he wanted to create a healing law practice but didn't quite know how to go about it. He calls it healing law, which I personally love, I might have called it conscious law, it doesn't matter, but I said, somewhat incredulously because I thought he knew, that I knew EXACTLY how to do that and we got to work. To be sure, he and his team were already WELL on their way. But with several months of committed effort -- him as a lawyer wanting to create a healing law practice and me as a purveyor of "consciousness training" -- it's a beautiful thing to see. The whole point of conscious politics and this newsletter is to give us new ways to think about it all and Chris & Andi are demonstrating that we're doing just that. Happy, thank you, more please. :)
There's plenty of injustice in the halls of justice. Thank you for highlighting this. I had never heard of "healing through law." Such a civilized concept we need to support. Actually, come to think of it, I do know of a juvenile court judge who practiced compassion in law before she retired.
Thanks for this, Chris. Personally, I have no doubt there are lots of compassionate people IN the system like the judge you mentioned. Couldn't be otherwise, could it? Yet if you ask me, it is the system itself, the institution, that has become virutally compassion-free. I am incredibly optimistic a) because of people like I mentioned here actually creating healing law practices and b) because I think the system was initially created to be more compassionate than it is and c) becuase we humans are just moving in that direction anyway. :) Thanks for playing.
Love it! I find a ray of hope in, as Chris and Steven mentioned, the philosophy of "healing though law". Even the very term "social violations" shows that there is compassion and a willingness to look forward with positive intentions to rehabilitate and work on saving our humanity instead of burying it.
It was one of the happiest days of my professional life when Salomon said to me, that he wanted to create a healing law practice but didn't quite know how to go about it. He calls it healing law, which I personally love, I might have called it conscious law, it doesn't matter, but I said, somewhat incredulously because I thought he knew, that I knew EXACTLY how to do that and we got to work. To be sure, he and his team were already WELL on their way. But with several months of committed effort -- him as a lawyer wanting to create a healing law practice and me as a purveyor of "consciousness training" -- it's a beautiful thing to see. The whole point of conscious politics and this newsletter is to give us new ways to think about it all and Chris & Andi are demonstrating that we're doing just that. Happy, thank you, more please. :)