“We must learn to respect broader perspectives, the lived experiences of others, and seek to socially construct new forms of meaning and knowledge together.”
This quote formed part of my oral defense as I was completing graduate studies at Athabasca University in 2008. Who knew I would get the opportunity to put these words into action only a few months later? For the past 6 years, my team and I have had the career-defining privilege to be part of originating a social system change of epic proportion.
We started into this work as the province’s Future of Policing consultants, and we continue to work closely with Saskatchewan’s Police leaders, including former Prince Albert Chief and now Deputy Minister Dale McFee, and with the best collection of open-minded, courageous and tenacious architects and evidence-driven innovators from policing, corrections, justice, social services, health, mental health, addictions, education, and academia that I have ever had the pleasure to know