What if...? ideas for a better social world
Robyn PenmanOffering new ways for making sense of and acting into our social world so that we can collectively make a more just and more democratic society—one that we actually want to live in.
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What's the point of being given a voice...when no-one really listens
In the last essay I wrote about the importance of truth-telling, describing it as a multi-voice narrative coming from the heart. That, however, is only part of the story. There is very little point in any narrative, multi-voice or otherwise...
Truth-telling, trueing, and justicing
This is the start of a new series of essays on patterns of communicating in the public sphere—new patterns and old, for better or worse.
Communicating patterns emerge out of cultural stories and common personal stories. These stories can b...
Restorative justice as a relational repair process
Restorative justice makes so much sense when we are striving to make better social worlds. This view of justice changes our approach to crime and wrongdoing by demanding a refocus on the people and their relationships in the community in wh...
Responding to wrongdoing
The last three posts have focussed specifically on the adjudication process in adversarial courts of law. Looking at the dynamic of this process it is clear that there is an extraordinary gap between the enactment of law and the pursuit of...
From truth out of adversity to truth in good faith
The whole idea of truth-out-of-adversariality and the way it is practised in the public sphere is a foundational aspect of our primary civic institutions of governance and law. Because of this, I have spent some time critically examining th...
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I’m a practical scholar, a long-time observer and critic of our social world, and, hopefully, a useful way-finder to another better social world. Asking “what if…?.” is the key to opening a path to a new world of being with others.
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