"It’s quite amazing, [human rights is] like a tree that starts off with its roots and a trunk but then the branches have just appeared in country after country, that’s what’s also important. Many of the countries that in the 50s and 60s and on were...
“It’s important that you be authentic. Not only will people see right through you if you are fake, but people only connect with real people.”
“How can we uphold that principle [of self-determination] if we aren’t giving referrals and resources that really support people’s self-determination to make informed decisions about when, whether, how to have a family?”
“To be trauma-informed in an educational context is to understand the role that violence and victimization may have played in the lives of students, and then to apply that understanding to not only curriculum development, but also policies and...
"We have an opportunity that goes way beyond a criminal offense. We have an opportunity to not only heal and rebuild individuals and children, but to rebuild families. And I think that the real notion was to rebuild communities.”
“When clients first show up, just inviting them to go out and do something with the horses, whether it be something like just meeting them, if they’re having issues with relationships, well, here is a bunch of relationships in this space that they...
“The basic idea behind the Basic Income Model is that a floor of economic security should be available to everyone in a given political community – a province or state or country - and that this kind of economic support available to all should be at...
“[Sustainability] means that future generations are not compromised by the decisions that we make today. So, going forward several generations, individuals, families, communities will still be able to have levels of well-being that compromised by...
You can’t leave something that became a part of who and what you are. Not when you like it, not when you enjoy it, not when you see the results of that. Sometimes, we stumble about, but from that stumbling comes a lot of smiles, and a lot of active...
“There was so much talk about how to improve quality for patients that I realized that, “Wait, how can we do this if the workforce is so worn, torn, and tired?” That, maybe if we started with them, maybe if we created a more resilient workforce...
