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Why personal history complicates facilitation roles

I was asked to facilitate healing between two community members but one of them hurt my family years ago and I don't think I can be neutral.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Traditional healing roles require impartiality that becomes impossible when facilitators have personal connections to the harm or parties involved.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous restorative traditions?”

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