The question is, can we change our systems to expect the worker, the helper to be the most skillful in creating empathy regularly and creating a state of compassion and radical acceptance? Because that is love.
Stephen R. Andrew LCSW, LADC, CCS is a storyteller, consultant, and trainer who maintains a compassion-focused private practice and also facilitates men's, coed, and women's groups. He provides coaching and training domestically and internationally for social service agencies, health care providers, substance abuse counselors, criminal justice, and other groups on motivational interviewing, supervision, ethics for caring services professionals, men's work, and the power of group work. Stephen lives in Portland, Maine with his sweet wife Hilary, and is the proud father of Sebastian.