With Love, We Pause.
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May 7, 2025
Dear Beloveds, The Equity Consortium exists to love equity advocates. Since November 2019, The Equity Consortium felt the call of time itself to create a monthly space, open to all. Since our first circle (in person, pre-Covid!), over 400 souls have shared this monthly space. You've come from 15 states and 5 countries, and dozens of professions and livelihoods. You range in age from 15 to 78, are 97% non-white, and 80% women spirit. We gathered, hearts and minds open, to re-examine and re-invent definitions of fundamental aspects of life: Love, Work, Spirit, Time, Place, Justice, Joy, Gender, Age, Color, Money, Trauma, Pain, Joy Again, Planning, Humbling, Strengthening, Growing, Liberating... We needed answers ready when asked, "What do you want?" And now here we are. At the precipice of a great global change, the edge of the future in sight, of our answers to, "What do you want?" Our monthly circles were always in preparation for this very moment, and now is time to act. It's not sadness that we conclude over five years of learning but with gratitude and fortitude, documentation and dedication. We continue to move and plan with intention and love and look forward to continuing our circles on another, season based cycle beginning in Winter, 2025, thank you for staying in tune. Meanwhile, we share amazing spaces created by other loving people. - Julia |
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Co-Work with Bela
A Better Force Book Club
Dreaming in Defiance
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Daring Excellence Invitation
Liberation Maasi's
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What is a Listening Circle, and What Can I Expect?
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In honor of our ancestors, and our connection to the earth, and each other.
In spaces where we invite learning, relationship, productivity, we also invite a cultural element of competition. Too often, those who talk the loudest or longest are the voices heard. That's sad. Everyone has a point of view, a story to tell. By changing the format in which we share thoughts, ideas, challenges, and aspirations, we invite the art of listening. A listening circle is not a conversation. It's not a dialogue. It's not a place to give advice. It's something else. We re-introduce the art of listening using the simple and durable technique of taking our turn, in order, uninterrupted, to answer a single question. Some questions are that interesting. Such as: "Where does power and love interact in your life?" "How will our time be viewed in the future?' Or simply, "How are you really doing?" Sometimes, it's enough to just be heard. |
For the paperwork!
(a.k.a. professional development)
OBJECTIVES
1. To practice active listening, an act of care that translates into more meaningful understanding;
2. To experience a profound change in expectations around how we set intention on how we seek knowledge of self and world, and
3. To inspire further exploration and practice upon return to the daily life.
1. To practice active listening, an act of care that translates into more meaningful understanding;
2. To experience a profound change in expectations around how we set intention on how we seek knowledge of self and world, and
3. To inspire further exploration and practice upon return to the daily life.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
A. Recognize one's ability to accept others' humanity through story uninterrupted;
B. Recognize the connections between individual imagination and collective future; and
C. Provide necessary practice for better communication, problem solving, and healing for self and the common good.
A. Recognize one's ability to accept others' humanity through story uninterrupted;
B. Recognize the connections between individual imagination and collective future; and
C. Provide necessary practice for better communication, problem solving, and healing for self and the common good.