Emergent Strategy

Change happens. Change is definitely going to happen, no matter what we plan or expect or hope for or set in place. We will adapt to that change, or we will become irrelevant.

Many of us respond to change with fear, or see it as a crisis.

It is not enough to adhere to these values, however—we want to see our beliefs in practice.

We have also learned that we had to lay out our operating beliefs. Each person has a set of beliefs with which they move through the world. These are formed by their cultural, social, economic, and environmental (amongst others) experiences from birth, and they change as more experiences are added to the whole.

We aim to be an organizational model of the change we call for in the world.

(We each hold contradictions—my shellac nails vs. my desire that no one do the toxic work of nail painting, my family travel vs. my desire not to use fossil fuels, etc.).

We need to move from competitive ideation, trying to push our individual ideas, to collective ideation, collaborative ideation. It isn’t about having the number one best idea, but having ideas that come from, and work for, more people.

Some people are comfortable believing—in heaven, in socialism, in someone else’s thinking. That’s never quite worked for me. I learn experientially. I am so far only convinced that change is divine and constant.

Notes from “Intersecting Worlds: The One We’ve Got, The One We’re Building, The Ones We Imagine”

I am living a life I don’t regret

A life that will resonate with my ancestors,
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and with as many generations forward as I can imagine.

I am attending to the crises of my time with my best self,

I am of communities that are doing our collective best

to honor our ancestors and all humans to come.