1 - House mothers of Dar El Awlad. These four amazing women love Jesus, participate in their churches and are each in charge of a unit-full of challenging boys from ages 5-18. Each has a different personality. Three of them have biological children also living with them and the "unit boys". There are organizational challenges they face which have not helped their growth nor health, some of which include not enough break-time for rest and renewal. Anger, apathy and avoidance have all been expressed at some point by each lady. On top of organizational stressors and authority pressure points, different personalities also come into play. Wounding, whether intentional or not, caused walls to be built. Unresolved conflicts, continuing conflicts, lack of trust in some areas. I think its safe to say not one trusts another 100%. There is a learned culture of "untrust". The HMs still visit one another, drink coffee together, help one another. I do not know how conflict-resolution is currently practiced. As an organization with Christian values, the expectations are high that there would be love, acceptance, honoring of one another, forgiveness and trust, and various HMs have mentioned how they have seen competitiveness, envy/jealousy, and dishonoring among one another. (No one says, "I've done this and I'm wrong and I'm working on it.")
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