Peace + Justice

Thank you for capturing and sharing our query, @Julie Lillie! Royce Holladay, one of the creators of the "Inquiry is the Answer" approach, says that relationships thrive when we are able to hold one another in query.

I was drawn to @Katya Jadwick's beautiful motto for her practice: An extraordinary relationship is not something that we find; it's something that we practice.

To my delight, the inquiry continued into our small group dialogue! We immediately began to approach our challenges from a sense of discovery. For example, we talked about how to connect with people with different paradigms to disrupt polarization. We concurred that suspending judgment and coming to the conversation as a compassionate witness and participant observer breaks the pattern of defending our own positions.

A key take-away from our session was that what we believe can keep us stuck, but what we question is liberating.

@Katya Jadwick @Darlene Cain @Lyndon Rego @Andrea Pope @Roger Balson @Maria Oah @Caren Stelson @Tom Short @Elizabeth Hartford @Joyce Bonafield-Pierce and Barry Koen, here's the Rilke poem I promised you:

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke

Yours in peaceful weaving,

@Kate Towle

Thank you, Kate for sharing your wisdom and inspiration and for leading us in such an enriching and eye opening process! 🙏