Across video conference screens, Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience Lead Trainer Katie Mansfield and Kirby Broadnax MA ’20 sit down together. Their topic of discussion: learning from our pain. ... read more about STAR video series: How to get ‘unstuck’ from trauma responses
Danita Rountree Green shares about Coming to the Table in Richmond, Virginia (CTTT-RVA), a local nonprofit that invites people to engage in the sharing of stories at the table where food and facilitation become the perfect ingredients for spawning new friendships across the racial divide. We invite you to meet the ever-growing CTTT-RVA family and join us as we deal with our country’s oldest problem: the legacy of enslavement and the racism it has spawned. We are excited about our work: taking disparate stories and developing a shared narrative leading to healing. CTTT orginated at EMU. ... read more about The Presbyterian Outlook features Richmond chapter of Coming To The Table from The Presbyterian Outlook
President Susan Schultz Huxman recorded this greeting to Eastern Mennonite University students, who begin classes today. Over the weekend, EMU hosted a series of virtual events to welcome students and ... read more about Watch: President’s Welcome to EMU Students
A virtual welcome, we all know, is not the same as smiles, hugs and the buzz of excitement around the start of the academic year. In the wake of a ... read more about EMU’s move-in delay shifts welcome events online for new and returning Royals
Eastern Mennonite University has announced the hiring of Carrie Bert as the Assistant Director of Athletics. After five successful seasons, Bert recently stepped down as the Royals’ women’s volleyball coach. This part-time ... read more about Carrie Bert is EMU’s new assistant AD
“Our country was birthed in a polarized cradle,” David Brubaker writes in the introduction to When the Center Does Not Hold (Fortress Press, 2019). First, patriots and loyalists faced off ... read more about A new guidebook for leadership in fraught times
Pádraig Ó Tuama speaks softly, soothingly, with just a touch of grit in his gentle Irish accent. Next month, you can hear the voice of this poet, theologian, and mediator on ... read more about Poet, theologian and peacemaker Pádraig Ó Tuama to make a virtual visit to EMU Sept. 14-18
Professor Steven Johnson is pushing the frontier of conservation photography – by entering “toad time.” He explains: a toad could sit on a rock for six or seven hours, seemingly ... read more about A photographer’s quest to document the ephemeral world of vernal pools
If we’re paying attention, and many have been, the Fire, the Pandemic, and the Uprising proclaim that all this smoke, disease, and unrest are related to respiration, and the violence and waste that blocks it. When I’m paying attention, this year teaches me that Hindsight is 2020. I should’ve known better, and so should many others. ... read more about Jonathan McRay MA ’13: On paying attention to the Fire, the Pandemic and the Uprising, and our own 2020 vision from Resilience.org
I love listening to the ‘story’ of the problem, sifting through the complexity to figure out what is important and what information or voice is missing, asking the right questions ... read more about Katrina Alger ‘08 wrestles with the human component of wildlife conservation