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people. One of the things I9ve discovered since really ingraining wonderfulness
inquiries into my practice is that I am meeting people who are so much more
wonderful than I was meeting before. I meet people who are so much more
remarkable than I was meeting before, and that brings me great joy.
I would also say that I really value connection. There was an article that David and
I wrote many years ago about bringing together strength-based practice with
narrative practice and talking about how we might story people9s strengths. That
has a bearing on this interview because David asked me similar questions, and I
found myself reflecting back to my grandfather, who I never met. He was a
residential canon in the Church of England, and he set up the first youth work
programs in the UK and youth camps after the Second World War. My sense of
him from stories I9ve heard is what he loved was connecting people and
connecting people to spirituality and to God. That9s not for me since I9m not
religious, but I9d like to think that I follow in his footsteps in some sense.
LR: Well, I wish we could spend some time talking about your grandfather, but
my guess is that many of the qualities that helped him to be effective in what he
did are the ones that you’ve inherited.
KAY: Well, thank you. I9d like to think so. I only have my mother9s memories to go
on, but this actually brings us to something else that9s really important about
wonderfulness inquiries. When I9ve heard really evocative stories about
someone9s wonderfulness in action, I9ll ask about the legacy of those
wonderfulnesses. I might ask,
