ABSTRACT
This chapter makes a simple point: planners should allow an inner moral compass to exist in their practice. Planning "wrong" can occur for many reasons, ranging from a technical error, to inappropriate professional behavior, to participating in a plan that produces harm. Planners may be confused about standards of professional conduct, or think they are doing right when in fact they are doing wrong. A simple case of being wrong is making a technical mistake. This could be transposing numbers in a spreadsheet or incorrectly citing the facts on a staff report. A planner may view compassion as a starting point for considering right and wrong. A plan that treats homeless people harshly would then be said to be mistaken. The idea of broken-heartedness may seem quaint, but it is an appropriate response to doing wrong. It is appropriate to sit with sadness associated with a mistake.
