Episode 381 - Restoring Faith in a Divided World with Richard Harwood

Richard Harwood joins the Spiritual Forum to share how to ignite hope and inspire action in communities that feel powerless and divided (like Flint, MI, Sandy Hook in NJ, and Reading, PA). His story begins as a child with cystic fibrosis who ultimately followed a calling to make the world better by repairing societal breaches. Richard shares a refreshing new paradigm that reframes community issues from problems and blame to what actually matters to people, bringing them together to create solutions that work. Underlying Richard’s extraordinary life's work is a deep faith that calls him to action—an inspiration for all of us.

Bio - Richard C. Harwood, President and Founder of The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation, is an innovator, author, and speaker. For nearly 40 years, he has devoted his career to revitalising the nation’s hardest-hit communities, transforming the world’s largest organisations, and reconnecting institutions to society. He has been recruited to solve some of the most difficult problems of our time, including being called into Newtown, CT, after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. He has appeared in numerous national media outlets and has written scores of articles, groundbreaking reports, and nine books.

Richard’s book: https://www.amazon.com/New-Civic-Path-Restoring-Another/dp/B0F7CHH1VX/

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