Love, Critical Caring, Peace

Peggy L. Chinn, RN, PhD, FAAN International Association of Human Caring

New Orleans, May 22, 2015

Love

Paulo Freire

“The naming of the world, which is an act of creation and re-creation, is not possible if it is not infused with love. . . . As an act of bravery, love cannot be sentimental; as an act of freedom, it must not serve as a pretext for manipulation. It must generate other acts of freedom; otherwise, it is not love.” (Freire 1970, page 77-78)

Love

Margaret Newman

“This new order has new rules. One of them, perhaps the foremost, is the necessity of unconditional love, which manifests itself in sensitivity to self, attention to others, and creativity. This is what we seek for our clients and ourselves.” Newman, in “Transforming Presence”, 2008 (Kindle location 168)

Love & Social Justice

bell hooks(Gloria Watkins)

“It had become hard for me to believe in love’s promise when everywhere I turned the enchantment of power or the terror of fear overshadowed the will to love.” (Hooks, 2000, p. xvi)

“There can be no love without justice”hooks - all about love p. 19

Caring

Nel Noddings

Re-visioning evil in the world and envisioning caring responses:

● Natural - respond to those who are hurt● Cultural - participate as little as possible● Intentional - respond to those who are

hurt and restrict the freedom of the perpetrator

Critical Caring

Adeline Falk-Rafael

“Ultimately, ensuring that nurses’ capacity for caring—including through advocacy for social justice—is healthy and intact is not only a personal matter for individual nurses but also of vital importance to the nursing profession and the society we serve.” (Falk-Rafael & Betker, 2012, p. 111)

Peace

Peace and Power

“To move toward peace, people in a group persistently question and critique their [experience of] the ideals of peace powers and learned habits of power-over powers. . . “ Chinn & Falk-Rafael,(2015) p. 68