These days collective healing is in the zeitgeist. You don’t have to scroll too long on social media to find the latest on trauma and healing.
Care is a theme that has come up over and over again in our System Sanctuary peer-learning sessions. When we mapped out and analyzed the systemic barriers and opportunities in the climate change space, care was there. It was everywhere.
A few years ago, when I was going through a big transition in my life and work, in one of those mid-life existential moments, I made a request to the universe. I asked for guidance, preferably from some real-life wise women.
For years, I have wondered how to create conditions to work across difference. This question guided my work at Girls Action Foundation, where feminist movements grappled with identity politics, and young women experimented…
When I stepped down from my role as Executive Director of Girls Action Foundation,, I didn’t plan a new career move or immediately step into a new role. It felt like jumping off a bridge and then free falling. It’s my…
When we think about care, we often picture the maternal traits of nurturing and giving. The image that comes to mind awakens love, compassion and kindness.
A mother takes care of the world. She feeds her children and tends to their development and needs. She…
To all the burnt-out mammas
Figuratively and metaphorically
We see you
We hear over and over again about how mammas are holding so much, and it’s too much
One theme in our series exploring care and systems change, that stood out for me was expansion.
When we sat with our guest, Miigam’agan, who is a Wabanaki/Mi’kmaw grandmother of the Fish Clan, I felt a strong sense of expansion.
One of the most interesting threads in this series on care is the question of pathology in change, and how it connects with care.
When we ask what care is, we can land in many places. Care has many dimensions. One of these dimensions wraps itself in…