• Focusing on being kind, nurturing, and loving toward marginalized children and adults—those who have been pushed to the edge of family or community life,
  • Helping those who have sorrowful life-stories feel safe with us and loved by us and others,
  • Helping those who have inherent vulnerabilities such as extreme poverty, homelessness, mental disability or mental illness feel safe with us and loved by us and others,
  • Looking at our role as teaching feelings of companionship and community,
  • Mending broken hearts — hearts that have been broken by tragic life stories or by the particular nature of a mental or emotional disability.