Work 2009-2019

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS 2020

No matter how stimulating the work, how rich the relationships with colleagues, and how challenging the career, there comes a time to step back and make room for younger, fresher voices, for more diversity in the endlessly fascinating world of conflict engagement.

That time has largely come for me in the past 5 years, as I have gradually let go of mediation and training, referring clients to others who bring their unique backgrounds and current–day perspectives to this work.

Colleague Julie Daum, (Wet’suwet’en mediator and trainer) and I had the great pleasure of designing and delivering a three day course called Circle Process for Mediators on Hornby Island, October, 2018. We worked under the auspices of Continuing legal Education BC . Combined with Julie’s experience and wisdom, for me this course felt like a gathering together of much of the best I have learned over the years, like my course on Mediator Presence. I am ever grateful to CLEBC for their ongoing support of fresh approaches to working with conflict.

In May 2019, I delivered a two day variation on the Circle Process course to Mediators for BC’s Public Services Administration.

My working life is now at a very manageable level, so I have the luxury of time for other pursuits, including study on militarism and war-making, particularly with respect to the Middle East and to the global climate crisis, activism, and writing on those and other topics. I’ve been enjoying writing a few book reviews for BC’s Ormsby Review, a great way to develop my writing chops I figure! Travel to World Beyond War’s 5th Annual Conference in Ottawa, in May, 2020, will hopefully further challenge this cub reporter/emerging Peace Correspondent.

Who knows what’s next?