The Intentional Volunteer Podcast- Episode 003

 

Break out the cookies and milk for story time, folks. It’s time to talk about those volunteer experiences that don’t go quite as expected.

 

Hosts Cari Berlin and John Bobb-Semple discuss the important task of ensuring that helping doesn’t turn to harm by outlining ways to cultivate an awareness of your role in support of a cause. As John says in this episode, “When I have the opportunity to call it an issue and not my life…#privilege.”

 

Using the framework provided in social justice research, the story of two unexpected weeks in Belarus, and a marriage, this episode of The Intentional Volunteer Podcast reminds us all that people are not projects. The best path to real change is listening, learning, and then serving.  

 

Mentions:

• Guide to Allyship

 

• No Innocent Bystanders: Becoming an Ally in the Struggle for Justice by Shannon Craigo-Snell and Christopher Doucot

 

• Imago Dei
• Belarus and the Chernobyl Disaster

 

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The Intentional Volunteer believes that you can change the world, your urge to help is a gift, and the best path to real change is listening, learning, and then serving.