The deep background to this blogging adventure includes more than 50 years of peer counseling at Re-evaluation Counseling (RC), also known as Co-counseling.

(See the Journal for Middle Class Liberation, “Our True Selves,” at www.RC.org).

Distinctly, alongside many other human potential projects, we’ve been experimenting with hope: reversing hopelessness about the prospects for human ingenuity and creativity and goodwill between people; reclaiming the hope to do what Brené Brown (quoting Theodore Roosevelt) calls, “Daring Greatly.”

Similarly that’s what we’re doing here: Imagining amends via categories for daring greatly—categories like:

• Personal Amends to Self,

• Interpersonal Amends to Others, and

• Intergroup Amends beyond Our Differences;

Then we’ve ventured boldly to imagine:

• Our Historical Wrongs made Right,

• Our Ancestral Wrongs made Right, and

• Our Institutional Wrongs made Right;

Finally, we’ve dared to imagine:

• Our Way to Amended Futures, including

• Our Future Reparations to Other Species—our companion species on this planetary journey; and so imagining

• Future Repairs of our Planetary home —this island Earth that continues to harbor us despite many abuses.

Here’s how we can imagine all that: in the not too distant future, let’s just DECIDE — decide we’re going to try to reclaim our true selves; ourselves restored as noble, honorable, reliable, estimable, desirable again!

That’s our prize, that’s our reward for just imagining amends; just imagining healing harms; just imagining correcting mistakes; just imagining repairing misdeeds — imagining all that one deed at-a-time — FIRST.

And THEN everything else can follow, as we reclaim our true selves. Join us to see why we’re so hopeful at OurTrueSelves.com.