MountainTop

17 June

On 17 June 2015

In arouse SOLIDARITY, cultivate TRANSFORMATION

Tagged faith matters, intersectional, MountainTop, race matters, video

Broken Truth

Many carry with them what might be described as a “broken truth” regarding other’s social identities that inhibit them from celebrating others’ full humanity. Broken truths can be difficult to name. Often a poignant story can help get at the heart of the matter, as it did at MountainTop 2015. This is a video excerpt of a retelling of Douglas Wood’s Old Turtle and the Broken Truth.more…

13 June

On 13 June 2015

In arouse SOLIDARITY

Tagged auburn seminary, faith matters, intersectional, MountainTop, race matters, social media

MountainTop 2015

Melvin Bray had the distinct privilege of co-facilitating MountainTop 2015, 8-10 June, in Atlanta, GA. MountainTop is a multi-racial, multi-ethnic, intersectional summit of leaders of moral courage from around the US, convened by Auburn Theological Seminary and designed to advance a multifaith movement for justice. The 2015 theme was RACIAL EQUITY. This DesignShop was facilitated in conjunction with Rob Evans from Imaginal Labs and Melinda Weekes-Laidlow from Weekes in Advance.more…

it's easier to get from THERE to HERE than it is to get from HERE to THERE.

~design axiom

everything that someone tells you is true; they are reporting their experience of reality.

~design axiom

to argue with someone else’s experience is a waste of time.

~design axiom

to add someone’s experience to your experience, to create a new experience, is possibly valuable.

~design axiom

discovering you don’t know something is the first step to knowing it.

~design axiom

we know more together than we do apart.

~design axiom

the only valid test of an idea, concept, or theory is what it enables you to do.

~design axiom

you understand the instructions only after you have assembled the red wagon.

~design axiom

if you can’t have fun with a problem, you will never solve it.

~design axiom

the future is rational only in hindsight.

~design axiom

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.

~design axiom

in every adverse condition, there are hundreds of good solutions.

~design axiom

creativity is the process of eliminating options.

~design axiom

you fail until you succeed.

~design axiom

nothing fails like success.

~design axiom

nothing is real until it is practiced.

~melvin bray, collabyrinth

we are who we practice to be.

~melvin bray, collabyrinth

"if you cannot SEE people hidden in plain view, you cannot HEAR others' stories as having value, and if you cannot hear others' stories as having value, you cannot CHANGE."

~gregory ellison, fearless dialogues