Week 10: 11/3 – How Change Happens, Part One: Individuals (Micro) – Radical Love

The reflections will be read by Teaching Team only. Each Personal Reflection will focus on at least one of the Four Pathways to Justice: Forgiveness, Cultural Humility, Courage & Compassion, and Radical Love. You will write about each Pathway at least once over the course of the semester, but you may write about them in any order you choose.

Reflections #2, #3, and #4 - Please offer a Personal Reflection on how you are integrating the readings and course discussions into your CEL work, with a focus on one of the Four Pathways. Please also comment on how you are developing any of the Praxis Competencies listed above.

Personal Reflection #3 Due

Total Page Count: 30 min and 27 pages required (+18 recommended)

Duncan, L. (2023, January 1). Reparations and Transgenerational Healing. Friends Journal. https://www.friendsjournal.org/reparations-and-transgenerational-healing/ (8 pages, or listen to the 30 min podcast interview)

Kaba, M. (2021). We do this ’til we free us: abolitionist organizing and transforming justice (T. K. Nopper, Ed.). Haymarket Books.

• Join the Abolitionist Movement, p. 190-192 (3 pages)
• “I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies”: The Living Legacy of June Jordan, p. 193-197 (5 pages)

nINA Collective. (2026, Mar 24). Rebuilding through joy. (Episode 1) [Audio Podcast Episode]. In Another way is possible podcast. nINA Collective. https://www.ninacollective.com/podcast/rebuilding-through-joy   (30 min)

• Or you can read the Joy Doctrine slideshow (35 pages)

Thurber, A. & DiAngelo, R. (2018). Microaggressions: Intervening in three acts. Journal of ethnic & cultural diversity in social work, 27(1), 17–27. (11 pages)

Recommended

Okuda, K. (2023). Toward Decolonizing Social Work Practicum: From a Practicum Director’s Perspective. Smith College Studies in Social Work, 93(2–4), 250–267. https://doi-org.proxy.brynmawr.edu/10.1080/00377317.2023.2256853. (18 pages)