Daydreams

The notes below were hastily written a few weeks ago to myself, a reminder of things bigger than myself, while reading a book on counseling clients with communication disorders. Individuals, families and communities are hit hard by stroke, childhood disability, brain injury or degenerative disease... SLP's like myself are some of the people placed to absorb their stories and work with them on the road to grieving and coping and healing.

• group counseling/sharing sessions are an ethnographic experience, understanding where people are coming from is the basis for reconciliation, problem-solving and effective ways of helping ourselves and one another.
  
• problem-solving in community support groups is the path toward resolving family/ethnic divisions, and for providing solutions to communication challenges, coping with the grief of disabilities
• The classroom/therapy center is a means of bringing diverse groups together, humanizing eachother through shared experiences of grief
• Christ's transformation in the midst of grief and loss, His principles for relating to one another, solving social concerns, living our lives, handling grief and pain