This began as a conversation about how to have productive disagreements and quickly became a discussion about how do we change our criminal legal system, and maybe on our way to that needing to change our entire society and how we relate to each other—a small order, right?
Meg and Luke are joined again by Inga Laurent, Professor of Law at Gonzaga who studies, theorizes and helps implement restorative justice practices in court systems and schools.
So how can we teach our kids and ourselves to have open-hearted discussions when society teaches us overwhelmingly to seek punishment? And how can we do restorative justice when the system wants retribution and society wants retribution? What would it look like to drastically reframe society towards support and dialogue?
Because reconciliation fundamentally can't happen if we're separate from each other, either literally when one of us is walled up behind bars or figuratively when family members have a disagreement politically and don't talk anymore.
Inga and Meg talk about tools we can use in order to reconcile with one another and keep ourselves mentally safe.
Don’t miss this one, it’s a little like free therapy.
