Getting Ready For The Futures We Need

Hello Dreamers,

New year same old death cult, some call it the United States. Police still killing and maiming, politicians still doing the most to fill up all the jails and prisons. Profit still trumping life, people still full of fear of those who have been othered and filled with dreams of domination and supremacy. The very earth we live on is still being degraded past the point of no return. And still the institutions that are supposed to keep us safe are failing or have failed.

This empire is dying and we need to be co-creating the systems, structures and institutions that will create the conditions under which we all thrive, find joy, healing, abundance, and the ability to realize a brighter, safer future that allows us to live free of all systems of domination and social control.

There are many individuals, groups and organizations that are trying to move this mountain, and there are many who have fallen by the roadside because capitalism, white supremacy and other systems of oppression have turned us against ourselves and each other. Often we replicate the harms of the very institutions we wish to abolish. Often we forget who and what is the enemy and choose to strike out at those who are closest to us instead. Sometimes we forget accountability starts with self reflection, and we are all swimming in the same toxic brew that asks us to be active in unlearning the lies we have been sold.

We require spaces, where we can gather to dream, plot, plan, organize and build, not only what we need today but what we will need after Abolition, what we do need so we can continue to heal and to fight.

Join me and Jason Wyman for our timely and informative workshop Cultivating Belonging: Setting Culture In Virtual and Physical Space. This workshop is for anyone who holds space for others including facilitators, trainers, teachers, organizers, artists, researchers, etc. who want to build spaces that engender vulnerability, belonging and camaraderie. Make your meetings, workshops, convenings, and trainings more generative and welcoming, so real sustainable change can happen. Check out this great article Building Resilient Organizations: Toward Joy and Durable Power in a Time of Crisis . If your organization needs some assistance with Change Management take a look at my work with Jason Wyman, Tree Of Change.