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2015-07-24
24 July
On 24 July 2015
In cultivate TRANSFORMATION
Tagged ableism matters, age matters, article, class matters, DEI, faith matters, orientation matters, race matters

Where is the Most Fertile Ground for Innovation?

Steve Howe, Ernst & Young’s Americas and Firm Managing Partner, recently published a synopsis of the work E&Y has been doing internally around diversity and inclusion and recommending externally to their clients. E&Y’s efforts are a window into what Carolyn Buck Luce has referred to as market and social justice forces aligning. Justice organizations would be remiss not to seize the moment. People seeking a more just society cannot accomplish the systemic changes we desire without being able to influence the channeling of the resources that run the world.more…

2015-07-20
20 July
On 20 July 2015
In arouse SOLIDARITY, cultivate TRANSFORMATION, make PROGRESS
Tagged ableism matters, age matters, class matters, faith matters, orientation matters, race matters, video

Where Collabyrinth’s Work Begins

It is at the end of this video that Collabyrinth’s work begins. Otherwise, the self-awareness “breakthrough” that occurs exists only to further serve persons of privilege–as if everything everybody goes through in the video is for the benefit of the white guy.more…

2015-04-25
25 April
On 25 April 2015
In arouse SOLIDARITY, cultivate TRANSFORMATION
Tagged article, brittney cooper, class matters

Playing Games with the Lives of Poor People | Analysis from Brittney Cooper

This offers excellent critique of part of the design of the In Our Neighbors Shoes event in March 2015. As a part of the service learning, 8th graders participated in a simulation that was not quite as relational as it could and should have been and skirted too closely the edge of the trap into which Gwyneth Paltrow and so many others have fallen. The next iteration of such a fieldtrip will correct for the insight offered by Brittney Cooper in the excerpt below from her article “White America’s Gwyneth Paltrow problem: How it’s playing games with the lives of poor people” for Salon.com.  more…

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it's easier to get from THERE to HERE than it is to get from HERE to THERE.
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everything that someone tells you is true; they are reporting their experience of reality.
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to argue with someone else’s experience is a waste of time.
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to add someone’s experience to your experience, to create a new experience, is possibly valuable.
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discovering you don’t know something is the first step to knowing it.
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we know more together than we do apart.
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the only valid test of an idea, concept, or theory is what it enables you to do.
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you understand the instructions only after you have assembled the red wagon.
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if you can’t have fun with a problem, you will never solve it.
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the future is rational only in hindsight.
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every person working a problem already possesses an answer or an important piece of one; the work of design is to stimulate one, several, or all of us to remember what we already know.
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in every adverse condition, there are hundreds of good solutions.
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creativity is the process of eliminating options.
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you fail until you succeed.
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nothing fails like success.
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nothing is real until it is practiced.
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we are who we practice to be.
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