TAP-ATL

08 January

On 8 January 2015

Tagged orientation matters, race matters, TAP-ATL

Table for Action Project Atlanta

Collabyrinth consultant Melvin Bray has been engaged by Auburn Seminary to co-organize the Table for Action Project Atlanta, along with professor and activist Letitia Campbell. Table to Action is an opportunity to facilitate conversation between queer social justice activists and Christian clergy, many of whom do not pastor openly affirming churches. In follow-up to an initial gathering of potential lead hosts 9 December 2014, Auburn sponsors Lisa Anderson and Macky Alston and their two local organizers met today to clarify the program’s vision, audience and timeline. As Lisa often says, “How we make change is as important as the change we make.” One of themore…

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