Interaction Institute for Social Change

“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Today marks the start of the FSNE 21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge.

This week, we're exploring how to shift from “me” to “we”: what does it actually mean to see ourselves as part of something larger and to act like it?

Each day offers learning, questions to reflect on, and some things you can act on. Not overwhelming. Just enough to stay in relationship with the practice.

And if you’re seeing this and thinking, “I missed it”- well, you didn’t! There’s still time to join, and you can start whenever you’re ready and catch up at your own pace.

🔗 Register here: https://bit.ly/21day-2026

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No surprise - the most clicked resource in our April newsletter was an articled called "How to Re-Resource Ourselves" by Ben Greene.

Many of us care deeply about social change work, and a lot of us are running low on what we need to actually follow through 🔋

The piece pushes us to think more broadly about what "resources" mean outside of time and money - like energy, safety, attention, community, and joy. When any of those are depleted, even those of us most committed can feel stuck because there's simply not enough left in the tank.

A few quotes from the article that stayed with us:
- If guilt and shame were going to work as motivation, wouldn't they have worked already? It's time to try something different.
- Our lives have started, we are living them, we are not waiting for a start line, and it is never too late (but always at least a little urgent) to decide to claim our own lives.
- You are not a worse or useless advocate because your cup cannot be as full as someone else's.

What would you need more of to keep showing up the way you want to?

🔗 Read the full article: https://www.goodqueernews.com/p/how-to-re-resource-ourselves

How to Re-Resource Ourselves Empowering ourselves to heal, grow, and *actually* make the difference we want to see in the world.

When we have uncomfortable conversations at work, our instinct is often to redirect and move on. But what if we didn't? That's often where something important is trying to surface.

Inspired by our magical facilitators, who often utilize "the pause" and lean into the tension, we're sharing a few ways this can look in practice:

- Ask yourself: What might be important about what's being said, even if it's hard to hear?

- Ask questions that keep the door open instead of closing it

- Name what’s true, even when it feels vulnerable

None of this is dramatic, but it does change the quality of how we work together.

What helps you stay present when a conversation gets uncomfortable? What tends to pull you out of it? 🤔

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Ok so you spent months in rooms together coming up with a strategic plan. You gathered input, debated priorities, and maybe hired a consultant. You finally landed on a plan that felt good enough. Then the world shifted, and the plan that took longer to make than it stayed relevant ended up in a drawer somewhere.

Sound familiar?

That's why we approach this work differently, through what we call Strategic Direction Setting: a values-driven, adaptive process that helps organizations stay anchored to their purpose while remaining nimble enough to respond to whatever comes next.

If you want to learn about it, we're hosting a workshop on April 30: How to Set Strategic Direction When Nothing Is Certain. You'll have two hours of hands-on practice in anchoring to your values and using scenario thinking to stay nimble without losing your North Star 💫

In a world that can upend a 3-year plan in months, the organizations that stay grounded in purpose and ready to adapt are the ones that keep moving forward.

Facilitated by Amy Casso and Maureen White. Open to executive leaders, organizers, facilitators, and anyone guiding people through uncertainty right now (many of you!)

📅 Thursday, April 30 | 3-5 p.m. ET | Zoom

Sliding scale pricing available.

Register: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/interactioninstituteforsocialchange/1963017