Dignity Is the Opposite of Violence: An Interview With Allan Wade
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Allan Wade, C.M., Ph.D. is co-founder of Response-Based Practice, an approach to therapy and other forms of direct service with adults and children, people who have been harmed by violence or who have committed violence, and their loved ones and community members. Allan is perhaps best known in Solution Focused circles for his article Small Acts Of Living: Everyday Resistance to Violence and Other Forms of Oppression (Wade, 1997). He was a keynote speaker at the EBTA 2025 conference in Roskilde, Denmark where his work was enthusiastically received. Allan was appointed to the Order of the Medal of Canada – one of the country’s highest civilian honours – in 2024. In this interview we explore his background, his connections with Steve de Shazer, Insoo Kim Berg, Janet Bavelas and others familiar (and not so familiar) in the solution focused world, and his work in helping recognise the fundamental role of everyday resistance to violence.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.012 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.024 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.005 | 0.016 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".