Both/and days, revisited
We have lived four years in a disabling, global pandemic and yet the “technology” we rely on constantly asks us to override our bodies’ needs.
We have lived four years in a disabling, global pandemic and yet the “technology” we rely on constantly asks us to override our bodies’ needs.
Meet a co-conspirator and fellow organizational change nerd, Amanda Lindamood.
Consider yourself invited to six group learning spaces that we hope will contribute to more chosen organizational cultures.
Rest is a political choice for me because its cumulative impact is that there’s no room or space or energy for anything to change. [Urgency] depletes what I need to dream, to perceive more possibilities.
The practice of noticing what’s the same, and what’s different…is at the crux of relating to others, and differences are too rarely named in favor of group or social cohesion.
“It seems like everything has happened all at once, but I know that it took many years of effort and growth and strain and hope and loss on both of our parts to arrive here with each other.”
“…the truth is that there is no escape…because the social good sector is merely a reflection and expression of the society it seeks to shift”
“I have witnessed how ‘mending fences’ was tied up with relinquishment of dignity…Many people in our social good sector have been required to be ‘the bigger person’ for far too long.”
Decolonization is recognizing, interrogating, and challenging the forces/impact of domination, oppression, and external control in our lives (bodies, families, organizations, institutions, systems) that remain today.
Esto es para quienes les preocupa que los llamen arrogantes o ignorantes o rebeldes, pero aun así continúan.
“Within teams and organizations where consent is an afterthought (if we’re lucky), ‘No’ has to be a complete sentence – for my sanity and for our survival.”
The encouragers matter so much right now because they are inviting us to see the bigger picture, to believe in ourselves, to take the risk…to become unstuck.