by Miriame Cherbib | Jun 11, 2023 | Speaking Justice Blog
Have you ever been told you were too emotional during a difficult conversation? There is a big difference between having an emotion and acting on it or, sometimes worse, suppressing it. Emotions are essential to resolve conflict, and here is why: Emotions give us...
by Miriame Cherbib | Jun 11, 2023 | Speaking Justice Blog
The Role of Mediation in Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging I recently took an advanced mediation training with Ken Cloke, who has a completely different way of understanding the most basic concepts in conflict resolution, including: what conflict is, what...
by Miriame Cherbib | Nov 17, 2021 | Speaking Justice Blog
“No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” – Attributed to Theodore Roosevelt Everybody is talking about it, but do they get it? I have to be honest and tell you that I used to feel confused about empathy. In my everyday life, I would often...
by Miriame Cherbib | Oct 16, 2021 | Speaking Justice Blog
“No one ever talks about the moment you found out that you were white. Or the moment you found out you were black. That’s a profound revelation. The minute you find that out, something happens. You have to renegotiate everything. And that’s a...
by Miriame Cherbib | Sep 30, 2021 | Speaking Justice Blog
“Dignity is something we all deserve no matter what we do. It is the starting point for the way we treat one another. ” Donna Hicks These last three months, I have presented and discussed the Speaking Justice method to about 500 people. These interactions are...
by Lisa | May 13, 2021 | Speaking Justice Blog
“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.” ― James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name (1961) ‘Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem’ Modeling & Anti-Racism Anti-racism, and more generally,...
