Here is the clearest articulation of how I think about what we are doing.
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I have long been frustrated with the way we have been holding the racial justice conversation. As a facilitator, I am painfully familiar with the places in which it always gets stuck. I have been wanting to try something else. Something different. More open. More likely to move.
And now we are ready to hold a conversation about race. A conversation geared towards white people who want to learn, to take responsibility and to do something.
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On March 26 we partnered with NEO Philanthropy to host a National Voting Rights Convening. We were supposed to spend two days together in Austin. We had a four hour virtual conference instead. We were almost 200 people from all over the country. Lawyers, activists, advocates and organizers who spend their every day working to protect and expand the franchise.
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Kathryn Ramey is a filmmaker and anthropologist who is making beautiful and important work about Puerto Rico.
I met Kathryn when I facilitated the orientation of the 2019 Creative Capital Awardees. Her work is personal to me. I grew up with a nationalist father. But surrounded by uncles, cousins and grandfathers who have served in the military.
I grew up visiting “La Base Ramey.” I have vivid memories of the spartan place, and of it’s tropical surroundings. Kathryn learned that the military base was named after a relative of hers. And she turned her gaze towards that which too often unseen when we think of Puerto Rico.
Meet Lawrence Barriner. A story teller, facilitator, circle holder and friend. He is a member of the Evolutionary Leadership community as well as a part of the Better Men Project. I love learning with him in these spaces and am happy to share some of his wisdom with you. In this series he speaks of his personal journey growing up queer in the south. About the toxic patterns of patriarchy he was able to avoid by growing up outside of the cis/hetero societal structure and the patterns he is still trying to unlearn.
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You have heard me speak of ceremony and sacred medicine. And it brings me joy to share this music with you. Metsa is a friend. He is masterful in this ancient healing art. And It is one of my life’s blessings to collaborate with him and his wife Kelly. Together we are part of a small cohort of spiritual teachers, medicine people and facilitators committing all of our skill and heart to finding a deeper way of being together.
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My friends, Elizabeth Debold and Thomas Steininger are joining up with Zen Peacemakers International to host a 24-hour, nonstop, meditation vigil. on December 7-8 2019.
The vigil will be led by sacred activists and spiritual leaders from different faiths and lands and is free of charge The purpose is to deepen our sense of Belonging To Earth
The vigil is from December 7 to December 8.
You can join for one hour. Or up to the full 24.
Participation is free of any charge.
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When I was coming up as a young activist and organizer I had to live my way into the myriad conflicts within the movement. I remember noticing a deep misunderstanding of what it meant to diversify the space. An earlier generation of white progressives were making effort to bring people of color to the table they were setting. But it took time and often pain for them to understand that when you bring new people to the table you are going to have a different conversation.
This is the whole point of bringing new people to the table: To change the conversation.
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You may remember my friend Cyndi Suarez from our very first podcast episode. I interviewed her just as The Power Manual came out. Classrooms and organizations are using the book as a guide to relinquish powerlessness and take charge of their work and lives. It’s a year later and I asked her back to tell us about the impact of the book and the evolution of her thinking. Power is a posture. It is a stance. It is a practice that we can enact.
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Extinction Rebellion calls itself the fastest-growing climate and ecology direct action movement in history. It emerged 18 months ago. When it consisted of just 10 people in Britain. It has swelled to millions of followers across 72 countries.
The movement relies solely on crowdfunding and donations. And it has been conceived as a self-organizing, non-hierarchical holacracy. There is no single leader or group steering its strategy, tactics and goals.
This is important. And it is very exciting. I have devoted the last fifteen years of my life to figuring out how to apply network theory to the work of social transformation. I don’t know of anything more important than dealing with the fact that we are in the midst of the sixth great extinction. And that we are the cause of it.
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