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Maria - I need to leave, but I wanted to share a reflection. I am going forward from this feeling gratified, validated, and hopeful - but hopeful in a way that acknowledges hope as practice and one that sometimes involves pain. I would say the same about love. I want to move forward in a way that acknowledges and validates that pain and can create a better way to acknowledge my own humanity in this work. 

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Maria - I need to leave, but I wanted to share a reflection. I am going forward from this feeling gratified, validated, and hopeful - but hopeful in a way that acknowledges hope as practice and one that sometimes involves pain. I would say the same about love. I want to move forward in a way that acknowledges and validates that pain and can create a better way to acknowledge my own humanity in this work. 

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How can we have community ownership for the projects that we do in the society?

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Alexsandro asked 'How do we keep our hope during difficult times'? How do we invent 'new works' in words that are understable and no polluted by the 'reality in Brazil'?

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We need to go beyond our 8-5 work with 'our organizations' and think of ourselves as leaders for our society ... what else do we do out there in the society as leaders?

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There is agreement that there is no agreement on exact tools to advance equality.

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One thing that made me both sad and surprised, even though I already knew it, was that for many of us we understand that danger and harm are expected in order to do our movement work. This must change.

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I would like us to continue the conversation about wellness and security,  including expanding it to talk more about financial security, etc Also,  interested in more conversation about the impact of the security, threats, stressors, etc. on our teams, families, etc.

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Nanjira needs to expound or share readings on 'demand affordance' ... for energy, time and creativity?

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Hashem framed having to subscribe to a two party system that doesn't truly represent you is a form of dictatorship - never thought of it that way but rang true for me

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Adriana today said we need to interrogate the place of capital in social initiatives. Is capital a means to an end, are we getting funds to solve social issuers or a we 'identifying social issues in order to get funds'? What is the role of money in social activism?

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I need to identify my volunteer activities in the society e.g. I seat on the board of a girls' school where I am the treasurer ( https://www.wisergirls.org/ ) and there are lessons i can learn from the community to strengthen my contribution to the WISER NGO. e.g. Whenever we fundraise to raise class size, locals in the village where the school is located complain that we are giving outsiders the additional opportunities (yet this was part of the donor request, that we expand the high school program to girls fro the wider parts of the country) ...

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Adaptive challenge may force me to continue exploring work with uncomfortable partners (think of government, public universities etc ... who traditionally are 'difficult to work with partners', but if it works 'offer the highest level of success') while i am comfortable with technical challenges (working with people who support a smooth flow of overcoming the challenges using financial or engineering power)

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In a conversation with Adriana, i realized that the challenges I face as an entrepreneur are also there in Brazil. The best part of our conversation was 'how do i go around the challenges'. I told her how i join all the foreign business associations/chapters in Kenya e.g. the Business Ireland Kenya ... and she told me how she also needs some 'white intermediaries' in some of her meetings...

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I never thought about how racism could impact my ability to really engage in self care. I only though about unplugging, but even when I unplug I still have to deal with racism around me.

Desmond M

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Monica suggested the idea of creating a collective quilt with the cohort

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Justice leaders working in an unjust system.

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Justice leaders working in an unjust system.

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“I will never be the doctor I want to be as long as my work is thwarted by injustice” (Rachel)

Rachel's story made real for me just how much we all operate within a larger system. We may be causing harm (e.g. drawing attention of border patrol) without knowing it. How do we make those interactions more visible to ourselves? To others? - charles

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the engagement of dismantling inequality demands that I address the inequality between my ego and the need to expand the voices of the collective.

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I am interested on the different approached and viewpoint of "Narratives"

Desmond

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"When given the opportunity to perform power, you have to deliver" - Paula Moreno

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On my narrative that 'public healthcare offers poor services compared to private healthcare', we have realized that there are micro-narratives, which contribute to the larger one. These include: urban health facilities are better than rural ones, caucasian doctors offer better care, the higher the price, the better the care, Male doctors are better than female ones, the older the healthcare worker, the more experienced they are and finally, the cleaner/courtesous/kinder the staff are, the higher the chances the healthcare provided shall be of high quality.

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The one narrative i have observed is that the public healthcare system offers poor quality care, and the private healthsector, though expensive offers high quality care...

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Complicate the frame, to accommodate the interconnectedness of the challenges, the intersections of inequalities conspiring to make equality seem like a mirage, when we have the tools and ideas to remake the world.

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2. This year has revealed to us that our current institutions have run their course, but we have not reimagined with what to replace them.

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1. Step out more, in conversations and ideation.

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That the frustrations and wins am experiencing are the same for my colleagues in Brazil and the USA. Just how interconnected we are.

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1. What is the best way to change a system? Are their success case studies on this.

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1. We do need to listen to one another’s stories –which requires attention, openness, even vulnerability.

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1. That it's all interconnected and we can not address it in a silo.
2. We would have to understand the deep inequality of opportunity and the legacy of trauma and deprivation that weighs down some people more than others.

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Reflecting on the story of Rebeca and Emily, who were murdered in Rio this weekend... When children's lives have been so ground down that simply being allowed to live--bring free from violence, free from abuse--seems like a daunting goal, how do we stand for more than just life: for lives of hope, space, imagination and dignity?

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from Abir--actions must be linked to broader political systems. Also, reflection on vision is a helpful practice, especially when one feels one is not making enough impact.

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structural solutions for structural barriers (charles)

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structural solutions for structural barriers (charles)

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It's less about “making wheelchairs climb stairs” and more about making buildings more accessible for a diversity of humans!

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I am realizing that equality means a mergence of more than one side, and I must be aware that all of the sides will be impacted by my actions.  Which may imply that the spirit with which i am engaging in my work should be applied across all sides.

Desmond

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Is there a way to reshape the language we use in order to be more effective?
Does our language reflex the outcome or process of our vision?
Is our vision defined by a conclusion or is it infinite?
Desmond

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Hearing the experience of Alexsando concerning to deaths of the 2 little girls, and how it connected to a similar experience of Daiene, and how Daiene experience in that particular incident impacted me in a
that influenced my input in our breakout session which influenced Alexsandro. Desmond

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Take possession of the social memory and history of the community and a fundamental political action to build a vision of the future.
The future is ancestral!

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Creating a caring and sharing culture in education, transportation, farming, health... will empower the equality environment.

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Leading with hope create resilience, but walking in faith will lead to an equal Humanity.

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A need for greater understanding of the problem, or “the reality”. We need to understand the limits of our own perspectives and co-create “the reality” with others. It is a collective exercise, not an individual one.

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a) In a conversation with Maria, I realized that disability is a cause and consequence of poverty.

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a) What frameworks, tools and experiments for solving inequality exist within my community?

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a) How do i collaborate with Maria and Diane?

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Part of disrupting or dismantling inequality is about engaging in the practice of hope. This practice can be painful, and it's important that we acknowledge the pain.

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a) Maria and Diane are great resources to collaborate with, since they have been trying to solve same problems as i am with global health
b) 'Not everyone understands how home is made': This was from Maria ... her family lives in Louisiana, and some folks may not understand how a family may choose to live in a hurricane prone area. But to her, its 'home'.

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a) Moving from 'Nothing about us, without us' to 'Nothing without us'. b) Choosing to see beyond the problem e.g. 'Choose to see beyond the disability', 'Choose to see beyond the violence', and 'Choose to see beyond the poverty'.

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When thinking about how invisibility can be the difference between life and death, I think about the invisibility of the people that I advocate for, myself, and others.
In connecting it the concept of ego versus echoing, I wonder how the dominance of our ego may unintentionally make the very same people a am advocating for invisible, and how I am making my opponents invisible as well

Desmond

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As a leader i sometimes find that i do not pay attention to the self care of my staff and of the members of my organization.. Either it is the seriousness and tensions of the moment, or organizational demands that consumes the moment without though of the impact the lack of self care is having on the staff or others.
Another delimma is how do you measure and monitor the level of self care, and who determines the appropriate levels?

Desmond