Hard situations call for hard conversations. This past week has been heavy, important, and rich in dialogue. I believe that it's through conversation that humans transform each other. It's the space in between that carries potential.
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there's reaction, both are transformed", says Carl Jung. Transformation starts with showing up, but how to show up can be a paralysing thought, as there is no approved manual or etiquette. There are hashtags and black squares, protest, donations and difficult zoom calls with colleagues. "I'm going to the protest because it doesn't feel right not to", a friend told me today. This is a time to trust our deep human instincts and take action. Of course, we are going to get many things wrong, but showing up is what matters. As the wonderful Daisy wrote in a brilliant Medium article this week: "There’s no better antidote to helplessness and overwhelm than action and service".
Today I listened to a rather raw and uncomfortable conversation between my dear friends Kritsta Tippett and Lucas Johnson. "This is an opportunity for us to really reimagine the very structure and nature of our communities" says Lucas.
I hope that you are showing up, in any courageous for you way, and that you are reimagining our communities one action at the time.
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