Creating Change
How can we create impactful and lasting social movements that are equitable and inclusive?
Creating Change
How can we create impactful and lasting social movements that are equitable and inclusive?
intention: the thing that you plan to do or achieve: an aim or purpose
We need to move from competitive ideation, trying to push our individual ideas, to collective ideation, collaborative ideation. It isn’t about having the number one best idea, but having ideas that come from, and work for, more people.
If love were the central practice of a new generation of organizers and spiritual leaders, it would have a massive impact on what was considered organizing. If the goal was to increase the love, rather than winning or dominating a constant opponent, I think we could actually imagine liberation from constant oppression. We would suddenly be seeing
... See moreStrategy is, what will I do today to work with the systems that are out there, so that tomorrow and the tomorrow after that and the tomorrow after that, I'm going to build a life where I want to live? Where we get trapped is we do something today in the short run because it's an emergency, because I had no choices, because I'm busy or tired, and
... See moreEverything is a story, and people need to understand themselves as having a meaningful role within the story you, as an organizer, are telling. If their role in your story feels like “doom appreciator,” most people will recoil, retreat to their own smaller story, and keep the focus there.
While it’s useful to have awareness of the pattern, to tackle an entire belief system and associated behaviours is perhaps to take a lens that’s too wide.
when we write the history of this planet, this moment in time where we have billions of people connected, and we have paid a huge price in terms of pumping stuff out of the ground in order to have the standard of living we have, we tend to waste it by watching the next thing on Netflix instead of contributing.
And a big part of my work is reminding
... See moreThe micro reflects the macro and vice-versa — Fibonacci patterns show up from space to cauliflower. The tiniest most mundane act reflects the biggest creations we can imagine.
Kat Aaron.
adaptation: a change in a plant or animal that makes it better able to live in a particular place or situation; the process of changing to fit some purpose or situation: the process of adapting