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10 Days to Activate Revolutionary Love
January 22–31, 2021
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Transition
Teaching and practice with Valarie Kaur
In today’s teaching and guided inquiry, we’ll learn how to identify when we’re in transition, exploring how to name what is wanting to be born and how to summon the bravery to keep breathing and pushing to build a new nation.
Home Practice
1. Choose any piece of today’s meditation and step into it in a moment of quiet and solitude. Was it summoning wisdom, the horizon, the ancestor, or the roots? Spend a few minutes sitting and really exploring it. See what other images, sounds, and messages come through.
If you do not yet hear anything, that’s okay. Keep breathing. Keep listening. The words, the images, will come.
2. In your wisdom journal, let your wise voice tell you what you are learning and what you might want to do next to go deeper.
Interview and live Q&A
with Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III: “Transition”
What awaits us on the other side of our labor? As a medical term, “transition” is the final and most dangerous stage of childbirth—but the metaphor is just as apt in our labors for justice. It is in this difficult, painful stage that we must summon the courage to continue pushing in order to birth new possibilities. Join Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III as they discuss why we, the people, are America’s greatest hope for transitioning to a better future.
Moderated by: Melissa Ann Canlas, EdD
Session Highlights:
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Becoming attuned to our sacred inner wisdom
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Finding our deepest courage to keep pushing, even when it is difficult
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Asking ourselves, “What stories am I willing to let die in order for new possibilities to be born?”
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Why transition must be performed in community, and how we can support one another in this labor
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, PhD
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, PhD, is a marine biologist, policy expert, and writer whose mission is to build community around solutions to our climate crisis. She is founder of Urban Ocean Lab, a think tank for coastal cities, and co-creator/cohost of the Spotify/Gimlet podcast How to Save a Planet. She coedited the anthology All We Can Save and cofounded the All We Can Save Project in support of women climate leaders. Recently, she coauthored the Blue New Deal, a road map for including the ocean in climate policy. A former policy maker at the EPA and NOAA, Dr. Johnson was called “the most influential marine biologist of our time” by Outside magazine.
Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III
Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III has built his ministry on community advancement and social justice activism. As senior pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, Dr. Moss has spent the last two decades practicing and preaching a Black theology that unapologetically calls attention to the problems of mass incarceration, environmental justice, and economic equality. As part of his community engagement through Trinity United Church of Christ, Dr. Moss led the team that came up with the “My Life Matters” curriculum, which includes the viral video “Get Home Safely: 10 Rules of Survival,” created in the aftermath of Michael Brown’s death at the hands of Ferguson, Missouri, police. Dr. Moss is an honors graduate of Morehouse College, and earned a master of divinity from Yale Divinity School and a doctor of ministry from Chicago Theological Seminary. He is a Senior Fellow in the Auburn Senior Fellows program and has authored many articles, poems, and books, including his most recent title, Blue Note Preaching in a Post-Soul World: Finding Hope in an Age of Despair.
Melissa Ann Canlas, EdD (Moderator)
Melissa Ann Canlas, EdD, is the director of education at the Revolutionary Love Project and a full-time faculty member in the School of Education at the University of San Francisco. Dr. Canlas’s research and teaching focus on issues of educational equity and human rights. As a lifelong educator, Dr. Canlas believes that education should be directed toward learning to love and care for one another as we build systems where every person can live in wellness and dignity.
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Echoing others regarding the deepness of today’s meditation – I laughed and cried for 15-20 minutes after hearing the words my ancestor had for me… Shaken & Joyful
I’m hoping that maybe a compilation of Valerie’s guided meditations can be made? I can imagine doing them again and again as I find myself living/working different points of the compass.
I visualized my little critic as a wet blanket. It felt heavy and cold. My wise woman hung it on the line for the sun to warm and the wind to dry. When looking deeper I saw that it was a baby blanket. In the New World, every child would be swaddled, nurtured, held as precious.
Much gratitude for this mediation Valarie.
Yes, the wet blanket! I have felt the effect often.
Very powerful meditation today. Thank you!
Evil still withers in the face of LOVE, but LOVE’s compassion spares the evildoer in grace. Transformation is the result. }:- a.m.
Rather than attacking others, we must be reaching out in love to listen and to educate.
Powerful meditation today (and everyday). Instead of watching the video, I only listened which allowed Valerie’s voice and cues to reach deeper in my mind. I envisioned the ‘I can’t” as a pair of soft amorphous black hands in a butterfly pose forming a wall across the inside of my forehead saying “stop, wait, you need a break”. The Wisdom of ages was on my breastbone and the ribs were arms going around and over it (yes, like the song) but also cradling it. Then forming a ladder that used the hands/wall like a stepping stone. Not stepped on to crush, but to build upon. The voices of Valerie, Annette, Carol, Pat, Bernice, Rumi echoing around me.