Love Across Difference
Learning Through Story and Dialogue
Our book is an invitation.
When you read and reflect on our stories and their meaning, remember this book can be a guide for your story too. Everyone’s life narrative is unique, yet connected with common themes that are resonant and merge into patterns that may be familiar or strange.
“Add your voice to our thought conversation. Follow us on the circuitous pathway across the landscape of our lifework as we continually ask, how do we come to know, learn, develop, and communicate in the social, natural and spiritual worlds?” We promise only provocative questions, not prescriptive solutions.
Telling your story is evocative.
Going beyond familiar boundaries is not easy. For this journey, hold off on the GPS, you won’t find us or yourself. This adventure requires patience and an honest and courageous self-assessment. We speak about cultivating curiosity and compassion, focusing on perspective taking. Catherine states simply, “We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.”
As we strive for a fuller understanding of ourself and others, we move closer to the possibility of learning and loving across differences. We find that sameness and difference, seemingly a perpetual duality, are really two-sides of the same coin. Our complex world is filled with ambiguity and paradox.
We never embark on new paths alone or empty handed.
Over the years we‘ve turned to some reliable resources to guide our way. They stand like stone cairns helping us to traverse a challenging landscape, or like signs and arrows directing you, through a confusing matrix of city streets. We share and give examples of how systems thinking, language, ways of knowing, human development and aesthetics help us make sense of the world around us.
Now imagine you are meeting at a local café, or perhaps reflecting in the quiet of a comfortable living room. Maybe you’re around the harvest table feasting with others on ideas, questions and metaphors, trying to unravel the threads of life’s meaning. Are you ready to join the conversation? We would enjoy having you!
