Healing Properties of Servant-Leadership in Addressing the Changing Face of Racism
摘要
The healing properties of servant-leadership are presented as a recovery tool to address the changing face of racism. Healing in this instance results from traumatic, persistent, and racist behavior imposed on people in personal and professional situations. This chapter offers an engaging definition for healing, one that aligns with the severe and unrelenting environment where healing applications are meant to reside. Greenleaf’s servant-leadership philosophy offers healing as one of its ten characteristics to assist racism perpetrators and recipients of racist behaviors to recover from the behavioral effects presented by this traumatic environment. The chapter discusses the acts of healing that rise to counteract racist behavior; courage, forgiveness, and love help to achieve healing. In addition, global instances and examples of the length and breadth of healing prevail on the surface. Since racism proliferates generationally, these healing properties proliferate in kind because they originate in one’s heart and soul.