044 Act Naturally
There’s being stuck between a rock and a hard place, and then there's being stuck between multiple rocks, hard places and dangers that threaten your life, and the lives of those you love...
043 Introducing the Ideas to Action Field Guide
I started to understand that what we have is a mapping of a different terrain for learning–this represents a liberatory landscape. The field guide offers different ways of connecting power, spirit, identity, body and knowledge...
Brass Tacks: Into the Wild with Aram Mitchell
Letting myself get messy–allowing space for the wild in my work for racial justice, that’s what surfaced for me this month in my conversation with Aram Mitchell.
Brass Tacks: On Putting Racial Equity at the Center of Strategy
During times of tragedy and crisis - grief, pain and anger in this moment can feel almost unending. As we know from the courage, perseverance and triumphs of those that have come before us - we shall move forward.
Paradigm Shifts in an Age of Crises
Paradigm Shifts in an Age of Crises Historically, pandemics have [...]
042 Love Technologies
In a meeting I had just a few days before going into quarantine, a valued colleague shared C. Wright Mills’s idea of sociological imagination. When I heard it, I wasn’t thinking at all about Covid-19. I was imagining all the ways...
On Grieving
April 13, 2020 Resources, Ideas to Action On Grieving [...]
Strategic thinking in crisis
Strategic thinking in a long-term crisis: One approach A note [...]
041 Wrestling with Compassion
A light bulb went off over my head when a friend said, “I realized I can get crushed, pinned down under a person twice my size and be totally okay. I can adjust, accept and move on." Now that's a paradigm shift I could use...
040 The search for self-interest
When you live in a Super Tuesday state like Maine, February is not only a month blessed with reflections on Black History. It’s a funnel through which to reflect on the decision-making skills of our fellow...