September 21, 2017
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Character, Leadership, Youth Frontiers
See Rather Than Be Seen
By Joe Cavanaugh, Youth Frontiers Founder and CEO
Last school year as I embarked on a Design Year sabbatical, the following statement from Mark Nepo’s “The Book of Awakening” were guiding words: “We need not see more rightly, but rather more completely.”
I encouraged my staff to live up to that saying in a year of tumultuous partisanship, growing incivility and demonization of the “other” – whoever that “other” may be. This focus brought clear intention to my experiences abroad and to our mission.READ MORE