There really is a shift in the field!
I am just now returning from helping to facilitate the leadership retreat of “The Gathering for Justice” and it might just be the closest I’ve come to witnessing the birthing process of movement.
These heroic human beings have invested the last few years in trust building, in ritual making and in learning to love one another.
They certainly have a lot of work to do, a lot to clarify, processes to define, more grappling with “the what” of the thing – but they are aware of this, and they’re ready to stick out.
I write to share my inspiration (and yes, it certainly helped that the retreat was in
Miami!) as well as to ask that if any of you know of “capacity building” resources that would be interested in supporting this work, please let me know.
This crew is working on a shoestring and I would really love for us at the Interaction Institute for Social Change to find a way to serve them with our organizational development expertise.
Finally, I am also sending a couple of
links that might not have anything to do with “The Gathering” but yet have everything to do with it and with what so many of us are doing.
One is a very brief video that I am hoping will show how resonant our work is with this global awakening and the other is a powerful speech by our friend Van Jones that I think goes a long way to help us re-frame our approach to work in the social change sector.
I am wishing you a thousand blessings while sending you a whole lot of love from a heart that has been blown away by Grace.
Hasta la Democracia,
Gibrán
http://www.globalonenessproject.org/video/Global-Oneness-Project-Trailer/1 http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/2007/12/25/miracles/ http://www.thegatheringforjustice.org
