Asking Brave Questions Perhaps it was a gutsy move. The four of us, a multi-racial team of independent consultants for social justice organizations, working with a local food justice nonprofit…
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What Can White People Do?
“The beauty of anti-racism is that you don’t have to pretend to be free of racism to be anti-racist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it,…
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LEADING IN UNCERTAIN TIMES: THE JOURNEY WITHIN
Exploring the inner alignment and wholeness so necessary to lead with courage and compassion Tomas Bjorkman at Sime Consciousness 2017 makes a crucial point in this video: “…if the Industrial Revolution…
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Cultivating Change Amidst Collapse
To meet the magnitude of this moment we must work collaboratively in ways that promote decentralization over top-down hierarchies, relationships over transactions, and emergence over control. (Photo by Mark Graves,…
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Decentralized Networks and the Black Radical Tradition – Part 1
FROM COLLECTIVE ORGANIZING TO BUILDING BLACK FUTURES Every second Thursday of the month, Network Weavers Yasmin Yonis, Kiara Nagel and Marie DeMange host a Community of Practice conversation on Zoom….
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Designing the New Normal
Thinking about “the day after” COVID-19~Forget reset, it wasn’t meant to be anyway. As the blanket of COVID-19 covers more of the world and the number of people infected increases,…
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Who Am I
Adhel Arop is a two time award winning filmmaker from Vancouver, Canada. She has been a poet since the age of eight, writing poems for conferences and school assemblies. She has…
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Turning toward: connecting under quarantine
On the transformative potential of small groups It is a cruel irony that in the moment in which we need each other most the global COVID pandemic is demanding that…
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Deeper than hair discrimination: A movement to address and dismantle systemic racism
When I graduated from Columbia University, I was informed in a professional development workshop at a national conference that my hair should not distract from my excellent credentials. I did…
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How using zoom to bring meetings online can be Transformative
As we navigate our new world, how can we learn to continue our important work without face-to-face meetings and work sessions? Even more importantly, how can we provide support to…
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