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Preventing Family Violence and Promoting Healthy Relationships
with Major League Baseball

Excerpt:  My lifelong relationships with the people I love, and doing the work which I describe in this paper, has helped me to learn more about baseball through life, and more about life through baseball. Three key lessons:

  • As we work to live and promote  healthy and peaceful lives, I think we can learn from the grace and skill, as well as the perseverance and humility needed to succeed over time in baseball.
  • In life, as in baseball, past "failures" don't necessarily assure or predict future ones -- only giving up on ourselves and others can do that.
  • Healthy relationships and great baseball may be more alike than we might think, in the degree to which they require practice, patience, and forgiveness.
Adrian Peterson, Ray Rice, and Dangerous Opportunity
Hold Onto Hope
Holding Perpetrators Accountable
Where Do We Go From Here? Response to Sandy Hook Tragedy

Publications

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"Reflection, Working Toward Peaceful Healthy Communities," published Winter 2016 issue Interdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies. To read, click above.
Red Lake Tragedy: Violence Prevention Work Gives Understanding (from St. Paul Pioneer Press)
"Creating Respectful, Violence-Free, Productive Workplaces: a Community-Level Response to Workplace Violence," article in the book Aggression in Organizations: Violence, Abuse and Harassment at Work and in Schools

"Understanding and addressing domestic violence in the workplace," Family Violence and Sexual Assault Bulletin,  Sage Publications
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
                                                                                                                                       -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.