On The Edge of Systems Change: A Clubhouse Chat w/ Vanessa Mason
“I think that practice of being present, that practice of being mindful even as you're moving through the fear, allows you to receive the glimpses of the future that you can experience today.”
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Featured song: Calm Down, Rema, Selena Gomez
Vanessa Mason and Illuminate Network Doula, Luis Alejandro Tapia dive into mermaid dreams, moving through and challenging fear, the complexities of funding systems change processes, and the challenges and importance of making visible the less tangible elements necessary for systemic change. Click “play” to hear more about this and so much more.
Vanessa is a principal of Building Cultures of Belonging on the programs team at Omidyar Network and Creator and Writer at Future of Belonging. Trained as a social science researcher and public health practitioner, Vanessa utilized cross-disciplinary perspectives and mixed qualitative methods to understand emerging behaviors, values, and consumer insights to redesign and reimagine well-being and belonging across business, social, and civic spheres.
Learn more about Vanessa HERE.
Illuminate’s Power, Justice and Systems Change Webinar Series is an international conversation about power and the role of equity and justice work in changing systems.
Systems change initiatives are often led from the center of the existing systems we seek to change. Yet, we know that systems change practitioners are working in diverse contexts, communities, doing systems change under different disciplines, using different languages, frameworks, methodologies and coming from various lineages of thought and practice. It is also clear that we need a strong, diverse and connected field of systems change leaders to address the complexity and scope of the problems of the 21st century.
“On the Edge of Systems Change” utilizes the Clubhouse application, to illuminate the voices of Systems Change Practitioners committed to centering equity and sharing different ways of knowing and deepening our systems change practices. These conversations center people and perspectives from individuals working “on the edges” of the systems change field. It is an opportunity for candid conversation with time and space for listeners to contribute thoughts via chat and to be “handed the mic,” to ask questions or share reflections.
Launched in 2022, this series is hosted by Illuminate Network Doula, Luis Alejandro Tapia.
