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Intentionally Inclusive Interviewing

Intentionally Inclusive Interviewing for Marriage Officiants: Recognizing and Respecting Diversity This training provides marriage officiants a framework to better understand and prioritize their clients’ identities and experiences. This will improve officiants’ interactions with couples and their wedding guests, leaving all parties feeling more empowered and included. This webinar includes examples that depict a variety of scenarios in which unconscious bias may occur and its impact on connections. Learning Objectives  Define unconscious bias and the many forms it can take. Increase awareness of your own perspective, and how that perspective might influence relationship building, the ceremony, and the couple’s and guests’ […]

The Sun Journal: 9/25/2005

9/25/05 Justices of the Peace Prepare to Marry Gays Connecticut’s new law allowing same-sex civil unions takes effect next weekend, and justices of the peace are still learning how to handle the new ceremonies. “On Oct. 1, civil unions become law in Connecticut, but there is not a JP in that room who knows what to do with it,” said Saul Haffner, president of Justices of the Peace of Connecticut, which held a conference Saturday on the law. “It’s going to be a mess.” Read article here.