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Document Type
Multimedia
Publication Date
2-20-2025
Keywords
Marriage and Family Therapy, ORCA Stance
Abstract
A hundred years ago, the lawyer Clarence Darrow, who was troubled by the agenda of the renewed Ku Klux Klan and a criminal justice system that institutionalized revenge said:
“What we need in this world is a little more humanity.”
In this presentation, I want to look into the words “more humanity” and focus on what I have learned about becoming human and moments in our journey in which we are invited to take a way a greater possibility than the one we have been travelling, times when something really happens that shapes our daily lives. I attempt to speak to myself and to fellow therapists and to weave a network of connections about how our participation in therapeutic conversations with others over many years alongside other sparkling moments in our everyday lives may become a movement toward gratitude, even as we stand on the threshold of the future at a crossroads discerning which way to take. Dag Hammerskjold, the man who built the United Nations, said it this way:
“For all that has been, THANKS, for all that is to be, YES!”
Recommended Citation
Collins, William K., "Becoming Human: On the Threshold of the Future" (2025). Speakers & Events. 2853.
https://digitalcommons.spu.edu/av_events/2853
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Location named in lecture:
Saddle Mountain: https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/oregon/saddle-mountain