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Week 4 FINDING HOPE IN UNCERTAINTY
Courageous Leadership for Shifting Systems
Anima Café Online
By Brook, Mahlon, Annahid, James
Anima Leadership
Online Etiquette
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• Message James from Anima Leadership for any technical problems at [email protected]
• If you have to leave early, please share one thing you are taking away from the session in the chat box and indicate you are departing early – Thx!
• This session will not be recorded to ensure privacy. 2
Land Acknowledgment
Anima Leadership is located in Toronto, the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee, and Huron-Wendat Peoples.
Specifically, we recognize the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nations and acknowledge their people, ancestors and spirits as stewards of this specific region.
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Café Objectives
• Connect Respectfully
• Learn Together
• Listen & Share Experiences/ Perspectives
• Act with Generosity
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Today’s Theme:
Finding Hope in UncertaintyCourageous Leadership for Shifting Systems
Chat Box Check-in
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In the chat box, please type 1 word that describes how you are feeling today, as
we start this call?
But please don’t hit the [Return] button until I say!
The result will be a more collective response.
Out of the Narrow Place
• We are in a time of groundlessness, of transformation.
• There is great fear but there is also possibility.
• Caring and courageous leadership is needed to help steer our organizations, societies, and world in better directions.
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“Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew. This one is no different. It is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next. We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred, our avarice, our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly, with little luggage, ready to imagine another world. And ready to fight for it.”
- Arundhati Roy
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Signs of Possibility
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The Role of Fear
• Fear is part of our natural survival response.
• Even in resting states our brain is scanning for danger. “Our brain is drawn to bad news.” (p41)
• Negative experiences stay with us stronger and longer than positive ones.
• Fear makes us contract, avoid change, hold on to what we know.
• There are tools including self-compassion, focusing on joy, and accessing our internal and external resources, that can help us to see possibility as well as danger.
Source: Buddha’s Brain: the practical neuroscience of happiness, love and wisdom. By Rick Hanson 9
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Truth of Survival
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Critical CaveatThere is nothing wrong with being afraid. We live in a traumatizing world. When we have inherited or experienced trauma, or even just long-term stress, we can tend to be even more vigilant to danger. It is ok in moments of overwhelming fear and grief if we find it hard to access courage. Those are the moments to reach out for help. To find ways to take care of ourselves, rather than trying to find courage.
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Story of Courage
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Writing Reflection• What was a moment when you were able to access
courage?
• What qualities or characteristics inside you enabled you to do that? What resources do you have that helped?
• What lessons can you draw from that experience that might support you in these times?
• What stands out to you about what we have been talking about?
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There are no right or wrong answers. Start with the questions that feel most alive for you today. Reflect with others and seek support if you get overwhelmed.
Small Group Discussion
In small groups of 5s, identify a facilitator to ensure everyone has equitable opportunities to speak and listen.
Part 1. (2-5 min)
• Your name, location, job/ org
• How you are feeling on a scale of 1-10 (low-high)?
Part 2. (15-18 min)
• Share a starting point from your reflection (whatever you feel comfortable sharing).
• Each group will summarize their discussion theme into 1-2 sentences into the chat box. 14
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Ideas for Leaders
Starting points for leaders:
• “Hopefulness Bathing”: Make a practice of soaking in the hopeful stories and ideas as much as if not more than the fearful ones.
• Systems Thinking: Seek information that helps you see big picture.
• Self-Compassion: This is hard. That’s OK.
• Collaborate and Seek Support: No one knows where we are going, and we need each other to chart a course.
• Cultivate a Vision: Help those you are leading to access courage and connect to possibility.
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A garden of forking paths
“What can guide us, as individuals and as a society, as we walk the garden of forking paths? At each junction, we can be aware of what we follow: fear or love, self-preservation or generosity. Shall we live in fear and build a society based on it? Shall we live to preserve our separate selves? Shall we use the crisis as a weapon against our political enemies? These are not all-or-nothing questions, all fear or all love. It is that a next step into love lies before us. It feels daring, but not reckless. It treasures life, while accepting death. And it trusts that with each step, the next will become visible.”
Charles Eisenstein, (March 2020) ”The Coronation” https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/the-coronation/?_page=9
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ResourcesCharles Eisenstein, (March 2020) ”The Coronation” https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/the-coronation/?_page=9
Video: Coronavirus Capitalism and How to Beat It https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niwNTI9Nqd8&feature=emb_title
The Leap https://theleap.org/portfolio-items/peoples-bailout/
Jubilee Debt Campaign https://jubileedebt.org.uk/
Progress Toronto https://www.progresstoronto.ca/
Workers’ Action Centre https://workersactioncentre.org/
Idle No More http://www.idlenomore.ca/
adrienne maree brown (2017) Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html
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Next Anima Cafe
When Things Fall Apart:
Grief as a Leadership and Life Skill
April 29, 2020, 12:00-1:30 pm EDT
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