An artist, cultural poet, facilitator, technologist, and handy man living in Colorado.
My purpose is to bring the just, honest, and compassionate world we all know is possible into being by helping people collaborate better together.
I was 14 when the towers fell, when the world turned upside down. I’ve learned everything of significance within that time. I’ve had to suspend myself a great many times since then.
Naveed reading Allegiance to Gratitude from Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
When I approach a group I’d like to collaborate with, one of the first questions I ask is “how do you decide”. The answer gives me a good impression of where that group is at. Often the answer is confused and unclear. Most groups, I find, coast along with implicit decision-making processes until a challenging decision appears, so they are stuck having to decide how to decide with a contentious decision hanging over them. As you might expect it’s better for groups to figure this out before that happens.
No matter how flat the power structure, no matter how democratic a group claims to be, if there is someone in the group who can at any moment pick up the phone and have armed police come and veto any decision made by the collective, there is a tricky power dynamic.
The stories that make me who I am.
