Seriously, a peacemaking team?!

  Last week at the daycare, my boss was having a problem with her computer.  She had lost the schedule she makes every week; it was just gone.  She had called in our tech guy to look at, but he wasn't able to figure it out because he wasn't familiar with the program she had been using.  When I got there, the tech guy had just left, and she was frustrated.  She had restarted her computer and managed to get some of the old information, but not the design.  I don't know anything about the program she was using or about "Apple" computers, but I do have some experience with losing documents and computers, so I suggested that she try cutting and pasting what she did have into a new document or a new program.  She was able to recreate the table and then cut and paste each person's information into the corresponding cells, but she wasn't able to find one of the worker's names.  As I sat down to talk it through with her, she thought of something she hadn't tried. All she needed was someone to talk to, someone to help her think through what she needed to do.

 The same is true about peacemaking...sometimes we just need someone to talk to, someone to help us see what we need to do, someone who has learned from their own mistakes. That's what the team is here to do, sit down and talk it through. It can be as simple as chatting over a cup of coffee.