This writer has worked as a human services professional for thirty years. In the diverse settings in which this clinician has worked, understanding the sources of conflict, having a good sense of family dynamics, and past social conditioning as it impacts conflict resolution or problem solving are all important keys to resolution. This author's mission statement includes giving problem solving techniques as well as communicating acceptance, connection and allowing clients to find their own "TRUE NORTH" has helped them to see or enhance the amazing human potential that lies within each human being. Ab Secondly, writing about relationships between various ethnicities and culture groups excites me because I have been co-facilitating various community dialog groups or special topics for a given demographic, for the last sixteen years. I was trained by the Center for the Healing of Racism, Houston, TX.