Chris Woodhull makes the case that justice is a process—a creative process, built on feeling and relationship.
About the speaker
Chris Woodhull directs The SoulCare Project and Build Me a World, two local mentoring/community building organizations. His background includes eight years on Knoxville City Council and twenty-five plus years running inner city empowerment projects focusing on gang violence and poverty, using business as a platform for development. He completed graduate work at Richmont Graduate University and the Graduate Program in Spiritual Disciplines at the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation in Bethesda, Maryland; studied mediation and negotiation at the Harvard Negotiation Project; and has received recognitions for his work in public process and workforce development. He co-directs a workforce development project with Greenspaces called Build It Green (BIG). He is an ordained minister with Mission Chattanooga, loves running, reading and hosts a weekly jazz program every Friday night on an NPR affiliate station after All Things Considered.
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Learn to play with others and not just people who think like you.
Words are like these little ecosystems.
Words...is not just language. This is part of being conscious, human, and whole.
Going to the dictionary for words is a little like getting nutrition advice from the FDA... Words come from the community, they come from experience, they come from emotion.
Jazz is a process
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