Replication Toolkit Phase:

Listen & Love

Guiding Tip: Start with the story.

Don’t start with the problem or the solution.

Start with the story.

Story provides the instructional seed for everything you must do.

To Listen & Love

  1. Look to research for current knowledge

  2. Look to community for wisdom

  3. Convene with integrity and love

  4. Share and equally value wisdom

Steps to Listen & Love

Reflection on Listening & Loving:

Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.

- David W. Augsburger

When bringing your people together to learn what matters most to them, make it a healing end unto itself rather than a means to some other end.

Welcome them into familiar and trusted places with their own customs. 

Feed them their own food and provide childcare.

Sing their songs, dance their dances and pray their prayers. 

Check back with them on what you heard to make sure you got it right. 

This is love.

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