Team Mackerel Surfaces - June- July 2022
We delve into alternative leadership models, modes, and paradigms. We explore new world paradigms that have the potential to reweave our societal fabric for the better. Riddled with good reads, quality guest lectures, and an enriching cohort symposium structure. This course is right on. I would highly recommend to all people.
Adult Summer Camp
Team Mackerel Shoals in Minneapolis - 1st week of August 2022
We come together from all corners of the US for our 7-day intensive. Intensive might actually be underselling the experience. Every minute was a fresh new experience. Overwhelming at times but in a good way. I would not change a thing. We started each morning with embodiment practices followed by introductions to regional change makers and outings showcasing the vibrancy and culture in Minneapolis. Our cohort bonded Ionically as we realized our communal power and strength. A truly life-changing experience that is just the beginning. The concepts and practices are still fresh and will require us to practice practice practice to fully actualize. No worries, we will!
We take a deep deep dive into Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion practices with Tim Cynova, Lauren Ruffin, Katrina Donald, and Nicola Carpenter. Conversations and exercises focused on creating evolving open workplaces that reflect and support the values of all involved. We first examined the underlying structures and energies that got us here by looking inward at our own personal bias and privilege and beyond at the influence and structures of our communities. We then touched on ways to break held assumptions and create hiring practices that reach and accommodate all types of applicants. We finish with tools, like infinity groups, and approaches to accepting new ways of working together and creating a culture change that is inclusive. Practices to elicit truth like affinity groups and tools to asses conflict avoidance like Thomas Kilmann's Conflict Modes Assessment. Certainly a crash course with plenty of material to grow with and reflect back on far into the future.
We are introduced to futuring. Looking at the wisdom of our past and the full spectrum of our now selves to inform actions to enact resilient futures of abundance for all.
We explore an array of approaches to develop social business models that support community well-being versus institutional growth and investor profits.
We look at our matters of concern more broadly as symptoms of an unhealthy complex system rather than as complicated problems to patch and identify how essential diversity is to the adaptability and resiliency of living ecosystems and why it is important to keep our human systems diverse in order to thrive.
We explore the concept of biomimicry and how it can inform our actions of regenerative healing. Feel the need to leave a life of consumerism and consumption for the abundance of regenerative systems.
We explore many ways of decentralized decision-making. Overwhelming in the moment, MJ provided us with endless material to explore and dig deeper. This class heavily influenced my capstone project and I am super thankful that MJ chose to work with us.