Facilitation, Coaching and Program Design

“There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction”

—President John Kennedy

Through my years in schools and in life, I’ve seen that everyone has a spark of strength and brilliance that may become dimmed but can never be extinguished.

My goal as a consultant, as a writer and teacher, is to help each person draw on that spark and access the skills and resources to achieve desired goals whether it is teaching, learning, running a school, a program, a district or writing a book.

Standing up against bullies

June 4, 2014 / Marjorie Larner / What We Can Do

The root of the word courage is cor—the Latin word for heart. In one of its earliest forms, the word courage had a very different definition than it does today. Courage originally meant “To speak one’s mind by telling all one’s heart.

In a world of public education under siege, I learned about not giving up when I didn’t win the battle. Now I need that learning for living in these times in our world.

I learned that at least as much as misery loves company, hope and commitment love company too. I have to work to resist the pull toward anger, hate, hopelessness. Yes, darker feelings exist yet I don’t want to be swallowed up in them.

I learned to take a historical view. This struggle is neither new nor static.

I learned to listen to people’s stories to get a broader and deeper grasp on what is happening

I learned I am not alone in the struggle for human life, social justice, planetary health. We are part of a bigger picture. We’ve got to be strong. We’ve got to be tough. We have to keep trying.

June 4, 2014 / Marjorie Larner / What We Can Do

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