Yehudit Zicklin-Sidikman
Fearless? Not Exactly...
It’s funny. Sometimes, people tell me I’m fearless, especially when it comes to the work I do. Honestly though, flattering as that may...
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Yehudit Zicklin-Sidikman
- Jun 10, 2021
- 2 min
Violence Behaves Like a Bad Smell
Violence, like many other atrocities, behaves like a bad smell. What do I mean? Well, if I walk into a room and there is a bad smell, my...
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Yehudit Zicklin-Sidikman
- May 11, 2021
- 2 min
I Am Anti-Violence....
I need to ask a question because it has been plaguing me the past week or so. Is the only acceptable answer to violence unbending...
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Yehudit Zicklin-Sidikman
- Apr 5, 2021
- 2 min
Oncology and Violence Prevention - An Analogy
I have been thinking a lot about how it might sound that I don’t appreciate aftercare provided by emergency services. That is not at all...
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Yehudit Zicklin-Sidikman
- Apr 1, 2021
- 2 min
An Artichoke, A Kerfuffle, and a Lesson in Boundary Setting
Recently, I had a little kerfuffle with my 4 ½ year old grandson. Had to do with an artichoke and you can only imagine. Because of my...
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Yehudit Zicklin-Sidikman
- Mar 3, 2021
- 2 min
2030 Will Be Here in The Blink of an Eye
My freshman year, 1978, I believe was the first year that computer science was taught in our high school. If not the first, then really...
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Yehudit Zicklin-Sidikman
- Feb 15, 2021
- 2 min
An Experiment I'd Like To Be Part Of
I recently put out this question: “The ‘recognize, remove and rehabilitate’ model that has been in play for decades has failed to end or...
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Yehudit Zicklin-Sidikman
- Feb 4, 2021
- 3 min
Who remembers the Petrie Dish?
When I was a kid, if you had symptoms that were suspicious of being strep throat (as we called it), you were taken to the doctor who...
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Yehudit Zicklin-Sidikman
- Jan 21, 2021
- 1 min
Learning From an Awakening
A friend just told me a story about being a child during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area. Before the...
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Yehudit Zicklin-Sidikman
- Dec 31, 2020
- 4 min
2020: A Year of Innovation, Adaption, and Persistence
Last year at this time, I wrote, “Speaking. Teaching. Air travel. I feel very lucky that those were the major themes of my 2019.” In...
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Yehudit Zicklin-Sidikman
- Nov 17, 2020
- 2 min
November. When Change is in the Air.
Today, I was hoping to be flying to Albania to teach the first ESD Level 1 instructor training since the outbreak of COVID 19. While I am...
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Yehudit Zicklin-Sidikman
- Nov 1, 2020
- 2 min
A Violence Prevention Strategy for all Genders?
“I am trying to understand the link between ESD, or the principles of ESD, as a violence prevention strategy for different types of...
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Yehudit Zicklin-Sidikman
- Oct 24, 2020
- 2 min
Preventing Violence? Interrupting Violence. Ending Violence?
Preventing violence. Interrupting violence. Ending violence. Does the terminology matter? It’s so easy - and tempting - to say that we...
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Yehudit Zicklin-Sidikman
- Oct 19, 2020
- 2 min
Never Say Never?
The Limitations We Put on the Use of “Never” and Why We tell instructors to never (haha) to use the word “never” and certainly not to...
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- Jul 26, 2020
- 2 min
Understanding Abuse
Over the past 25 years, I have observed that the majority of stories shared with us have two aspects of similarity: 1) The abuse did not...
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- Jun 25, 2020
- 3 min
Advocating for Education
I feel that I have to respond to these statements and questions without directly responding to the actual post. Primarily, because this...
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- Jun 22, 2020
- 1 min
I am a Tour Guide
When I speak, I am a tour guide, taking my audience on a tour of the historical and current modern-day understandings of Empowerment Self...
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- Jun 17, 2020
- 1 min
Because Sometimes There are no Bystanders
What I can tell you from my experience in the field, is that in the 25 years that I have been involved in this work, the programs that I...
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- Jun 16, 2020
- 1 min
It Is Time To Demand Change
It is time for this. It is time to demand change. It is important to recognize violence while it is happening. I am not diminishing the...
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- Apr 27, 2020
- 2 min
On Being Response-ABLE
I know I throw the word around a lot. So, for those of you wondering about its origin, here you go: When I was going through the process...
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Yehudit Sidikman
- Dec 12, 2021
- 2 min
The Power of Circles
During my time in the desert, I wrote this: “Circles have been a special part of the last 16 years for me. Circles represent the sharing...
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Yehudit Sidikman
- Nov 16, 2021
- 1 min
What Will Bounce?
For the past fews days, I’ve been talking about how to get through life when we’re exhausted from having too much on our plates. Judging...
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