“Last summer, a professor and two students from a small Iowa college jammed 200 teddy bears into a duffle (sic) bag and flew to Sierra Leone. Armed only with books, laptops, cameras, and the bears—which were gifts for Sierra Leonean children—they were on an ambitious mission: to try to teach forgiveness skills in one of the most war-torn places on Earth,” wrote Emile Raguso in a Fall 2008 article in Greater Good Magazine.  If you’re having trouble forgiving a friend, boss, spouse, colleague, or even yourself, you may find inspiration reading how a group of teachers in civil war torn Sierra Leone learned how to forgive.

Submitted by: Roselle Kovitz

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