Honoring each other across boundaries of culture, language, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, age and economic status is the focus and the expertise of an Extension professional. Each of us has many tools in our tool kit for working with individuals and groups about how to appreciate, respect and honor each other.
When a relationship, situation or project is not going well, it can nevertheless be useful to scan for who and what is being honored or not. Using the language of honoring to frame a question may be a different set of insights.
Ask these kinds of questions:
1) What am I honoring and not honoring here?
2) What are other people honoring/not honoring?
3) What is the highest and best action I could take in this situation?
4) If there were a lesson here, what would it be? (First look for the lesson for yourself. You may want to look then at what the lesson could be for others.)
In a future article, we will look more in depth at how to honor when the situation is difficult.
