Cooperative Building: Leaning into Conflict and Tension as a Spiritual Practice

(this is a partial transcript of remarks given at a lunchtime mini-seminar on October 27, 2017)I want to draw on this image of tension and the power that can be generated through tension with a simple, mundane example that comes from my own life. My wife and I are parents of a three-year-old daughter and three-month-old twins. Our daughter Lucy is just beginning to take her first steps on the perilous tightrope from dependence to autonomy. That comes with frustration and with lots of big emot...