The slap heard around the world: Will Smith and the Academy Awards - a blog that is NOT about my opinion on the issue
Apr 04, 2022
Photo source: Ruth Fremson/The New York Times
The media has been inundated this week with EVERYONE’s opinion about Will Smith slapping Chris Rock.
Everyone seems to have a perspective on the issue they feel we are entitled to hear:
- There is no excuse for what Will did and he shouldn’t have done that;
- Violence is never OK;
- What he did was understandable and justified because of what Chris Rock said;
- What Chris Rock said was offensive and insensitive to Jada Pinkett-Smith’s...
Mission Impossible: Building trust in the public arena
Oct 01, 2020
My work is in the public arena, in the space between people. That means I spend a lot of time feeling the impacts of polarization, disconnection, fear, anger and distrust. In the last few years it has become palpable; so much so that I’ve called this time “a time of outrage.” In 2020, we layered the emotional, financial and social impacts of a global pandemic over top of it like icing on a cake. It’s not just the virus that is contagious, it is the emotion surrounding...
