Upcoming events
see yourself differently: the personally transformative components of visionary organizing
This three session workshop is an exploration of the three personally transformative components of Visionary Organizing: Connecting to and Trusting Our Inner Wisdom; Locating Ourselves in Systems and History; and Recognizing and Nurturing Interdependence.
By engaging participants with media, personal reflections, and group discussions that put personal experience in conversation with history and systems, VOL teacher-facilitators teach the components of Visionary Organizing to illustrate connections between personal transformation and collective transformation in communities and organizations. Participants will understand how systems and history converge to disconnect us from our inner wisdom, learn to reclaim and trust it, and explore practicing relational power rooted in it.
Beyond the Master’s Tools: The Collectively Transformative Components of Visionary Organizing
This three session workshop to explore how Imagining New Possibilities, Affirming Dignity, and Experimenting With Transformation facilitate transformative change by nurturing interdependence, transforming relationships, and creating new systems that can replace what already exists.
Learn Differently | VOL’s monthly Reading Group (april)
Writers, poets, philosophers, and artists have written theories and created beautiful worlds that inspire us to live differently. Throughout the history of patriarchal racial capitalism, there have been stories that allude to a different way of being. In VOL’s monthly reading groups, we explore some of these histories and stories in community.
VOL’s March reading group will be an engaging discussion of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore. This thought-provoking book examines the ways in which the modern world has been shaped by the exploitation of seven essential resources - nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives. Join us for an engaging discussion that connects the past to the possibilities of existing differently.
A digital copy of the book will be provided after registration.