Healers

What if

Parents saw themselves as healers

Teachers saw themselves as healers

Lawyers saw themselves as healers

Mediators saw themselves as healers

Business owners saw themselves as healers

Doctors saw themselves as healers

If the work of healing is a commitment to the whole

If ‘holy’ shares the same root as ‘healed’ and ‘whole’

Then it follows that it is absolutely vital that more of us see ourselves as

Healers

In peace,

Sheena Jonker

sheena@adr-networksa.co.za

[i] With thanks and apologies to Charles Dickens

[ii] For previous blogs: ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN THE TIME OF COVID 19 | ADR Network SA (adr-networksa.co.za) and ADR, HUMAN RIGHTS AND COVID-19 | ADR Network SA (adr-networksa.co.za) and LOCKDOWN-RELATED DISPUTES AND THE ROLE OF ADR | ADR Network SA (adr-networksa.co.za)

[iii] Kenneth Cloke, ‘Politics, Dialogue and the Evolution of Democracy’

[iv] http://www.adr-networksa.co.za/restorative-justice-state-capture-and-corruption/ and

http://www.adr-networksa.co.za/dudu-myeni/