Fear: May/June 2024 Reflection
This month, I have had to face several little fears that show up as anxiety. Whether it's a false sense of urgency, perfectionism, or other’s worship of the written word, these fears tend to impede on my ability to be creative AND spacious. In this work of pushing up against the status quo and cultivating space that can embrace and sustain multiple ways of being we must get creative. We must dream, imagine and reimagine how we live and create communities of practice that embody diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging and beyond. And this hard, taxing but beautiful work must be done in collaboration across multiple levels.
“If you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.”
One way I am learning to push back on these little fears that show up as anxiety is committing to doing this in community and in collaboration with other dreamers with different gifts and skill sets than me. Thinking that I have to think of all the things, do all the things and do them well with minimal amount of conflict or critique creates a level of individualism that we as humans are not designed for. So once again my counter, my remedy for this fear that isolates and robs us of imagination is community and collaboration. To be brave enough to do it together, to be witnessed being flawed, to have to be more patient and find more compromise across collaboration. Because we can not dream up a new society with a new set of values alone. It must be cultivated, held and sustained together.
Reflection Question
How has collaboration helped you dream and create; how has it helped you face your fears and resist isolation?
