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At the Heart of Integrative Law
Pioneering Conscious Agreements
J Kim Wright is a pioneer of our times. With many others, she is imagining and creating the legal system for the emerging world ranging from conscious contracts to integrative law. In this world, lawyers are peacemakers, problem-solvers, and healers of conflicts; agents of transformation with their clients.
Integrative law is simply law + heart that integrates universal values like humanity, compassion, love, integrity and dignity. There is an underlying awareness in the legal profession that collaboration and cooperation are more workable than divisiveness and polarization
The vision for 2045 is that “lawyers are recognized for our true purposes: peacemaking, problem-solving and healing the wounds of the community. We are agents of transformation with our clients, helping each to use conflict as an opportunity for transformation and to access greater synergy and creativity. We create sustainable agreements and resolutions. Trials are rare and civil. Collaboration, prevention, and compassionate listening are the lawyers’ stock in trade.”
Kim is part of the growing seven percent of the eight billion billion on the planet who are creating the new world. She is a visionary paving the way with others, like Resolutionary Stewart Levine, to create healthy and just systems for where we…