Why a blog?

When we started this blog a month ago, we had a few ideas about what we could write about but mostly, we just wanted to talk to you. We still have plenty of ideas for posts (there’s a big list in our office that grows almost every day) but, with a few weeks of blogging under our belts, we want to hear your stories and opinions. We want you to use the blog as a place to interact with us and with each other.

At the bottom of each post, you’ll see a link that reads Leave a Comment. Please use this link!

• Tell us about an issue, problem or question you want us to write about on the blog
• Share a story
• Tell us about something you’ve read or published that we should read
• Tell us what you’ve learned from your successes and failures that might help someone else
• Tell us you disagree with us
  Agreement is nice, and it makes us feel good, but it doesn’t do much to feed discussion! And, feeding our egos isn’t the primary purpose of this blog—it’s the secondary purpose. But, if you have more evidence, more stories that support what we’ve written, we want to hear those!

Please keep in mind when leaving or replying to a comment:

• Be careful about naming individuals and organizations. Don’t name and shame, hide identifying characteristics when necessary.
• Please be respectful of your fellow commentors’ opinions.
• Comments are approved by us before they’re posted to the site, so if your comment or reply doesn’t appear right away, don’t worry.  We will approve comments at least once during each work day.
• We will try to reply to every comment, but it might take us a few days.

 

About once a month we’ll pose a few questions, and look to the comments for answers.  You can leave a comment on the post, or you can reply to an existing comment thread to keep the conversation going! 

More than any other goal we may have for this site, we want to know you better and we want you to know each other.  Make this site a space for sharing and learning with other DNHers!

With that, a question for today: 

What’s your favorite, the most inspiring or the most resonant quote you have heard that you associate with Do No Harm? 

It can be something you’ve heard someone say about DNH, or something that reminds you to think in conflict-sensitive ways. 

My current favorite is a proverb:
Don’t think that there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
It reminds me to think about latent conflicts; they may not be obvious, but they can become violent if we’re not aware of them.

Candice likes a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
This quote reminds her about the importance of Implicit Ethical Messages. How we work is important.

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