People often ask us about the name, Sea-Change Partners.” There are a few reasons we chose it. One reason is simply that we are located in – and often focus on – Southeast Asia (SEA). Another reason has to do with our approach to our work. Rather than simply applying what are commonly seen as “best practices,” we have often found that conventional wisdom is worth questioning. We apply critical thinking, and we often see that better approaches, though less common, are possible. This principle is embedded in our pedagogy. And it often means a “sea-change” in thinking. And, finally, our Founder and Managing Director, Keith Fitzgerald, worked in Ireland and Northern Ireland in the late 1980s and early 1990s and got to know the great Irish poet, Seamus Heaney, and is a fan of his beloved poem, The Cure at Troy. The long poem, taken from myths of the Trojan War is, in part, about suffering and healing. And it includes the following stanzas: