Collective Healing: Rahmin Sarabi | GP Interview #19

This is the nineteenth in a series of written interviews with thinkers, artists, activists and other luminaries around the world, people whose life’s work resonates with our founding principles.

Our friend Rahmin Sarabi is a human-centered designer and strategist with a background that includes work on local food systems at Good Eggs and people operations at Opendoor.

Today, he’s working at the intersection of collective intelligence processes and deliberative democracy to help groups of people wisely address challenges, from small communities to national in scale. He’s also a co-founder of THRIV, where they’re building family-centric support for elder care, and a board member at Commonweal, a non-profit founded on a vision of healing people and the planet.

Rahmin is the son of Iranian immigrants, serves in many capacities as a community builder and lives in San Francisco’s Mission District.

GP: What are the most marginalized or disenfranchised people in America teaching the larger culture right now?

RS: The lessons have always been there, it’s been a question of whether we’re able to turn towards them, create enough commitment, motivation, and psychological safety to see reality as it is. It’s hard work to look within ourselves individually and at…