Creative Soul Consulting

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Creative Soul Consulting

• Evolutionary World View, Social Justice and
  Philanthropy A series of thoughts, a series of
  inquiries

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Courageous Love

• It is from being courageous enough to honor and
  hold the truth that we create cohesion and
  closeness and not idealist division.

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Overview

• Honoring sacredness of diversity
• The inter-connectedness of our strength and
  struggle
• Beyond the illusion of separation What does
  diversity have to do with me?
• From Translation to Invitation Healing Ecology
  Guides
• Philanthropy, Social Justice and World View
• Conclusion

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Sacredness of Diversity
Kisha

• Evolutionary World View
• We are the living face of evolution, the eyes and
  hands and minds of the universe weaving itself
  into its next manifestations, day after day after
  day

• Sacred Weave Spirit is all there is. Spirit has
  separated itself to know itself including in to
  communities of color diversity is critical to
  the weaving that we are all connected to and
  originate from.
• MicrocosmYou create the microcosm in your every
  day lives (within and without) of inclusiveness
  and empowerment of POC
• When the face of the evolution is a POC, how we
  walk on the planet is effected by our physical
  manifestation
• Honoring the universe and its manifestations is
  to also to honor its history, our cultures, our
  stories, our ancestry, how we walk on the planet
  and how the planet responds to us

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Inter-connectedness of our strength and struggle

• There is no separation between our communities.
  We are an integrated dance. We are a mutual
  truth. The truth that what you do or dont do,
  what you share and dont share, what actions you
  take and dont take, have a direct impact on our
  communities as we have a direct impact on yours

• This has been our struggle and it can be our
  strength if we allow it to be
• What if we were to be honest and vulnerable and
  coalition build around this truth? This is what
  is happening with my people. I know that this is
  happening there in your community. We have a deep
  connected relationship. I see these dynamics
  mirrored, because they would not happen with my
  people if that dynamic was not happening in the
  your community. This dynamic is what is damaging
  us and you.

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Address the dynamicsWe all are being hurt

• Isolation
• Disconnection
• Shame
• Fear
• Desperate
• Acculturation
• Ignorance

• We have all been effected, cut up, fragmented and
  it keeps happening
• Keep us separated from ourselves, each
  other,planet and Spirit
• All has served us (legacies), if we allow it to
  inform the future evolutionary consciousness

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Beyond the illusion of separateness towards
wholenessWhat does social justice have to do
with me?

• Courageous Love
• Gain an understanding as to how that particular
  weave has come about is important to understand
  how it evolves in to a new form of
  inter-connectedness that is nourishing everyone
  involved
• What is my part in its creation and
  proliferation?How do I benefit?
• How can I be a part of the evolutionary evolution
  of social justice?

• Health Disparities
• Prison Industrial Complex
• Poverty
• Violence
• Education

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Evolution and Social Justice Nothing is
itselfwithout everything else

• PermacultureNothing is wasted, everything has
  multiple-purposes. Each and every thing has
  intrinsic value
• Personal zero waste policy-everything changes,
  can see wisdom, energy, creativity in everything
  and everyone
• Relationships with different people, cannot be
  expendable when it is personal
• Get to know people outside of fear, competition
  and power
• Seeing yourself in 10,000 things

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From Translation to an Invitation Healing
Ecology Guides

• Look to history (external definitions of what
  needs to be transformed and how) to ensure we are
  not re-creating spiritual colonialism
• Create Sacred Space for Owning history and our
  parts in it
• Ownership of our history (what was before) as POC
  for strength, guidance and perseverance as a form
  of self-love, taking no prisoners and liberating
  ourselves
• Ownership of history by non-POC and privileged
  folks, their place in it, their continual
  perpetuation of it (consciously and
  unconsciously), so we can move forward in a place
  of wholeness
• Deciding what is core, whole and beautiful, what
  is just love?

• The Evolutionary World View
• Feedback loops that help individuals experience
  the positive and negative effects of their own
  acts.
• Transform ourselves, our consciousness, our
  social systems and cultures, and our technologies
  -- in ways that serve our long-term collective
  flourishing as part of a flourishing Earth.
• A dance of cooperation and competition

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Philanthropy, Social Justice and Evolution Back
to the heart

• Funding people-based initiatives re-connect
  marginalized and disenfranchised people with
  their own divine power, ability to make new
  choices, effect change (Relevant Sustainable)
• Funding at places of greatest impact Grassroots
  up, ground up make larger systemic change
• Fund evolving processes (time)

• Fund dialogues that connect the whole create
  linkages as to how our struggles our connected
  and integrated outside of objectification
  (victim/victimizer)
• Mutual accountability
• Mutual transparency
• Invest in emerging leadership

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Creative Soul ConsultingTrust, Transparency,
Relevancy, Love Spirit

• Involving those closest to ground in determining
  their solutions Listen to and trust the people
  and their highest vision as to what is possible
  for themselves
• Systematic change in grantmaking Inclusive
  policies and practices (intention-how you walk on
  the land and do the least harm?)
• Address social and economic injustices that
  affect marginalized and disenfranchised
  communities Grassroots economic development
  (better organize themselves against external
  factors such as gender discrimination, culture
  and health disparities)

• Focus on marginalized and disenfranchised
• honoring knowledge and wisdom within our
  communities
• honor the ways we live We are the people we
  serve
• Mutually empowering relationships in grantmaking
  honors needs, issues, strength and opportunities
  of both parties (matching human energy,
  intelligence and courage)
• Diversifying the face of philanthropic
  professionals (we are the people that we serve)

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