#emerge&envision

February 15, 2022 Leave a comment


Our radical imagination is a tool for decolonization, for reclaiming our right to shape our lived reality.
adrienne maree brown, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

We have sheltered in #lockdown.

We took to the streets to #resistracism and #resistfacism.

We have #masked, #vaccinated, and #boostered.

Even when others wouldn’t to save our lives.

What would it take for us to #emerge&envision?

To free ourselves from the mass social psychosis of COVID fear, loss, and restraint? 

Yes, we’ve been sick. Yes, our beautiful ones have passed. And, yes we are tired. And we’re still alive and our futures are waiting for us. 

We will either be in a regular cycle of variant upswings and downswings, or COVID will become endemic. In either case, I believe the time has come for us to make a decision. To no longer just survive COVID, but to live with it like a storm we come to expect or eventually will retreat, and to emerge from it and envision futures that are equitable and resilient.

Futures, plural because people, communities, and continents may need different kinds of futures; there isn’t not just one that fits all. We deserve and can design together futures that are full of joy and wellbeing, and that reflect systems of liberation. Futures that are grounded in collaboration, love, equity, and networks. 

I hope to be immersed in these questions with you and other leaders. In the blog comments, will you join in?

  • What is this country and this world crying out for?
  • What is your vision for equitable and resilient futures? 
  • How can capacity builders like IISC, and leaders in general, help make your vision possible or help make your vision come into view?
  • What experiences, resources, and tools do leaders and networks need to deepen their heartset, mindset, and skillset for emergence and envisioning? 
  • What kind of experiences and transformative spaces can help us emerge from this time of pandemic, fear, and deeply exposed racism and oppression, to futures of joy, wellbeing, and systemic liberation?

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