Stories of Impact Forgiveness Podcast Part 1

Part one of a special two-part series that dives deep into the subject of forgiveness. Our guests included Dr. Everett Worthington, Science Director in a worldwide research project studying the REACH forgiveness method’s effectiveness in facilitating not only individual forgiveness, but community forgiveness, a study that he and several colleagues conducted across six sites, five countries, and four continents. This part features two of Worthington’s collaborators from Ukraine, Dr. Liudmyla Shtanko and Dr. Sergiy Tymchenko, who were in the midst of the forgiveness research project when Russian began to wage war in their country. Dr. Shtanko and Dr. Tymchenko opened up about how they coped with the brutality being inflicted upon them, and how forgiveness played a role in their thinking and planning for a hopefully peaceful and free future.