Dr. Eruera Tarena and a group of rangatahi from Tokona Te Raki share Te Korekoreka, a #socialinnovation framework grounded in the three realms of the Io tradition through which things come into being: Te Ao, the world of light; Te Kore, the world of potential; and Te Pō, the world of darkness. Building from these realms, Eru and his team have developed a systemic change framework that is inherently intergenerational and continuously iterates between past, present, and future.

A conversation with Tema Okun, Karen Proctor, Diane Johnson, our colleagues Marta Ceroni from the Academy for Systems Change and Luis Alejandro Tapia from Illuminate for joining us in our inquiry to learn more about white supremacy culture, discuss how it's shifted in the last 20 years, and explore implications for our work in complex systems change.

Luzette and Russ joined Liz Weaver from Tamarack Institute for an intimate conversation about how dominant cultural norms impair effective collaboration. We shared the results of new research on the negative results we get when dominant cultural values suppress other ways of knowing, being, and doing in collaboration—and how to cultivate more integrative approaches. 

In this justice oriented and joyful wayfinding session, we explored the wisdom rooted in ecological connections and the healing refrains of the natural world.

In this highly participatory talk, we explored the power of personal storytelling by re-membering ourselves through the lens of the personal, the political, and the planetary. We navigated the perpetual tension between the individual and the systemic to honor our differences as we create new senses of belonging and liberatory power.

Together with Hasshan Batts, we explored the idea that to be truly effective, our systems work must be rooted in our interdependence as well as an examination of the past. We explored the role of relationships, self reflective practices and systems change in healing from individual, collective and organizational trauma.