I was recently interviewed by Psychedelics Today. The podcast will come out in a couple of weeks. So I want to prime you with some of my thoughts on this Psychedelic Renaissance. It is an exciting time. And it’s not just about Silicon Valley entrepreneurs microdosing their way into greater productivity.

We are opening new doorways to profound and lasting healing. We are becoming aware of pathways to deal with anxiety, treatment-resistant depression, all sorts of trauma and even end of life care.

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I have devoted my professional life to building networks of leaders. These are leaders who are already passionate about what they do. Committed people. Skilled and brilliant. My job is to bring them together and help them turn towards the power of their collective intelligence. The work hinges on the depth of authentic relationships that these leaders build with one another.

The idea is to help them re-connect with their own sense of meaning and purpose. We want these leaders to access their interior resources, connect with one another, and become better able to turn towards the challenges of our time. Becoming a network gives them a greater sense of what it takes to thrive in times of VUCA - volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.

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We have a complicated relationship with hierarchy. We tend to think they are a form of oppression. But there is an important distinction between dominant hierarchies and “nested” or developmental hierarchies. We learn things. We grow. We get better at doing the things that we practice.

We go from not knowing, to novice, to apprentice to master. This does not mean we exert dominance over anyone. But it does mean that we have ascended up a developmental hierarchy.

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My last work trip before this pandemic was in February of last year. I went to Nuqí, in Colombia’s Pacific Coast. I had the privilege of facilitating Skylight’s AfroColombia SolidariLabs. It was magical. It was transformational work among people devoting their art and passion to a more just and inclusive society. It was an effort to face racism and right past and current wrongs.

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On March 30th we invited you into a call to talk about what adaptive change looks like in this moment. You brought your hearts and your wisdom. This is a synthesis of our conversation. This post brings together the reflections that you shared using zoom’s chat function during the call.

We sang, we moved, we shared, we prayed. We turned our gaze to what is possible now that was not possible before. Let us cull from what is being learned about how and what to practice now, in these days.

How do we breathe and live our way into the future that wants to emerge?

How do we do all of this while also holding space for grief, and opportunities for mutual care?

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2020 has been quite the year. Today is the winter solstice and it’s time to turn our face towards the light. We want to get our bodies and our minds ready for what is new. We want our hearts and our souls to align with our highest intentions. This is a time to align. And to create.

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Join me and others who believe in the power of connection, of community, of people, of movement, of song and of prayer.

Let’s gather this coming Tuesday, October 27, 3PM to 4:30PM EST. Register here.

This is not a campaign rally. It is not a get out the vote effort. This is an “our care” session. It is an opportunity to ground and connect and get perspective. It is a way to bring our attention to who and how we are being in this moment. AND it is a way to take the long view. A way to practice how to be better ancestors for our descendants.

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Here is the clearest articulation of how I think about what we are doing.

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I have long been frustrated with the way we have been holding the racial justice conversation. As a facilitator, I am painfully familiar with the places in which it always gets stuck. I have been wanting to try something else. Something different. More open. More likely to move.

And now we are ready to hold a conversation about race. A conversation geared towards white people who want to learn, to take responsibility and to do something.

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On March 26 we partnered with NEO Philanthropy to host a National Voting Rights Convening. We were supposed to spend two days together in Austin. We had a four hour virtual conference instead. We were almost 200 people from all over the country. Lawyers, activists, advocates and organizers who spend their every day working to protect and expand the franchise.

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