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New mantra:
Am I coming from my heart or coming from my hurt?

This really got me thinking...

Allow people the *opportunity of experiencing sitting with their own truth by taking time for yours. Deep empathy means the ability to be empathetic and aware of your own experience as well, Not just someone else’s.

Such a brilliant cartoon to illustrate the point!

If you missed my workshop, here's an article with some tips and resources about how to disagree online. Which ones could help you or someone you know? Let me know in the comments!

How to Disagree Online There you are, scrolling through an email thread or the news feed of your favorite social media site, when what do you see? A comment by a colleague or friend that’s utterly outlandish! You can hardly believe it—how could they believe that? You limber up your fingers and thumbs and get ...

"If we focus on and empower the most marginalized people in a space or in a group or community, and if they have what they need, then everyone has what they need." - Janaya Future Khan

Futurist, Organizer and Storyteller - Janaya Khan Janaya Khan is the co-founder of Black Lives Matter Canada and has become a leading voice in the global crusade demanding social transformation, justice, and equality. Known as Future within the BLM movement, khan is a Black, q***r, gender-nonconforming activist, staunch Afrofuturist, boxer, and soc...

"We are not good despite our imperfections, it is the connection we maintain with our imperfections that allows us to be good...Being mindful of those personal and common imperfections is what allows us to be good to each other and be good to ourselves."

So many good things in this talk! Highly recommend you watch it.

TEDxHampshireCollege - Jay Smooth - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Discussing Race Jay Smooth is host of New York's longest running hip-hop radio show, the Underground Railroad on WBAI 99.5 FM in NY, and is an acclaimed commentator on polit...

"...we must come to see the system of mass incarceration as a form of organized violence AGAINST our communities, rather than a meaningful response to violence committed by individuals WITHIN our communities. The safest communities are not the ones with the most police, prisons, or electronic monitors, but the ones with quality schools, health care, housing, plentiful jobs, and strong social networks that allow families not merely to survive but to thrive." - Michelle Alexander from the Preface to The Tenth Anniversary Edition of The New Jim Crow -

The New Jim Crow - Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander “Two years after Obama’s election, Alexander put the entire criminal justice system on trial, exposing racial discrimination from lawmaking to policing to the denial of voting rights to ex-prisoners. This bestseller struck the spark that would eventually light the fire of Black Lives Matter.” ...

I was featured in this blog post on how to lead better online meetings, as was the group I lead regularly, The Intention Project.

Have a goal to improve your next Zoom, says meeting facilitator and mediator Cordell Wesselink, M.A. “Zoomout” is real. Office workers and students now spend their days on video calls. The novelty of chatting over Zoom is gone, and some cringe at joining yet another Zoom happy hour. But communities are unique because they have a purpose beyond just being social.