This essay from the NY Times Sunday Review describes a study which pointed out one of the involuntary physiological reactions we have to being rejected, excluded, cast into societally devalued roles (such as ‘other’): namely,… Read More »Physiological reactions to the wounds of rejection, distantiation
The following focus question was published in the December 2010 issue of The SRV Journal. I look forward to your replies, thoughts, reflections and related questions: “From an SRV perspective, ‘integration’ means ‘personal social integration &… Read More »SRV Journal focus question: December 2010
This 2010 article describes a study done on the ‘social participation of students’ with impairments ‘in regular primary education in the Netherlands,’ and raises a number of relevant points for our consideration from an SRV… Read More »article: Social Participation of Students with Special Needs in Regular Primary Education in the Netherlands
We recently had the wonderful opportunity to spend some time with Jeff McNair, a professor at California Baptist University. He was in Massachusetts to give a talk about integration and faith communities. (Tom Doody, a… Read More »Book notice #4
In SRV workshops, we begin by teaching about the most common wounds of societally devalued people. One of the most common forms of wounding is rejection. We talk about rejection as a hinge wound, in… Read More »Deportation of the Roma from France
Recent report on social integration and NGOs. Interesting to compare how the report defines social integration with how it is described in SRV. From the report: Social integration is the process of building the values,… Read More »UN report on social integration and NGOs