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Rebecca Silva-Faville

Notes from a workplace contemplative—where the inner life meets the outer setting

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I’m an average middle-class worker, a registered nurse, pursuing integration of work, home, and community. One seamless, healthy existence lived out in many contexts, seeking to move with openness and curiosity first, then advocacy; Held as a small, beloved part inside a much larger, mysterious story. I draw on many perspectives and disciplines to explore how my/our participation in a broken system may contribute to wholeness, reconciliation, and (if at all possible) redemption.

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Time-lagged world

Time-lagged world

Being right is a small comfort in a world where the evidence-based practice of today is based on research published 17 years ago.

When we take the complexity of everything coming at us and try to squeeze into a box of “right and wrong” we don’t solve anything, we just move ourselves toward the cognitive distortion of polarized thinking.

In this time-lagged world there is rarely a “right”. More often it’s a, “this is the best we got right now”

There’s no shame in making your next move with “the best we got right now.” Just make sure to build in a little margin for the unintended consequences that will most certainly ripple out.

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