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Sometimes I think perhaps a bit too much in terms of my own experience. I like to think I'm not completely alone in that....[??]

New territory becomes part of mainstream society with the thanks of many different courageous leaders.

Explorers scout the territory. They climb through the valleys and jungles. Sometimes they tell others about the wonderful places they've been and seen.

Trailblazers go into the jungle with their machetes and clear a path through the tangled vines. They fall in quicksand and muck out the swamps. The Explorers are off in new territory.

[Editor's Note: This was posted on the ADR Prof Blog and I thought it deserved a broader audience so I asked the author, Professor Andrea Schneider for permission to reprint it.]

"Vocation is where your deep gladness meets the world's deep need." ~Frederich Buechner

A recent thread on the CollabLaw listServe had me revisiting this topic. One professional had asked for help with a divorce case in which one of the spouses had requested, in the middle of the process, that the attorneys and mhps stop giving the financial professional any information about his/her "emotional state". One post suggested there might be more to do than simply decide whether it's "okay" or not to stop sharing....that there might be something going on for that client and that it might be helpful to ask him/her about it. I added the following thoughts: