Calling In: Creating Change Without Cancel Culture
Starting June 7, 2022
Join the Calling In Movement!
We invite you to register to join us for
Calling In: Creating Change Without Cancel Culture!
Starting June 7!
(As we prep and run the new course, we are going to pause the monthly Calling In Conversations event. We plan to start those back up in July.)
Loretta J. Ross
Activist. Public Intellectual. Professor.
All of us experience regrets for things we did or didn't do. How do we turn these regrets into positive opportunities for growth and joy? Calling In is what you do for yourself, how you showcase your growth and integrity, how you offer to the world your growing depth and insights, and how you joyfully display your pathway to inner peace and excitement in connections with others.
Every time I call someone in instead of calling them out, I feel better about myself. I feel emotionally and psychologically stronger, more competent, more empathetic, and braver. As I muddle through the lacerations of my life, I can salute and appreciate my incomplete journey because the vision I have for myself is much richer than all the things that have happened to me.
Calling In strengthens my boundaries, releases my frustrations, and energizes me for future possibilities. I feel myself becoming a better person, someone who can be trusted not to harm someone else intentionally, someone who pays close and loving attention to the impact I have on others. Calling In practices are imperative to ensure that we don't grind each other up and harm each other out of our despair and drama. These practices have helped me to learn how to become a better human rights activist and defender by becoming a better human being.
Loan Tran, Lead Trainer
From Will Smith to Johnny Depp, Piers Morgan to Beto O'Rourke, "Call Out Culture" or "Cancel Culture" is in the headlines everyday. Underneath such call outs and cancellations are the questions impacting all of our lives--whether it is about harm and abuse, accountability and repair, or systemic oppression and cultural trends. While we may not be at the center of a highly broadcasted scandal or conflict, we still wrestle with call outs with our friends, colleagues, and family members--and ourselves. We are increasingly worried that a genuine mistake will receive the same kind of backlash as a calculated insult. The short of it: It is a strange and terrifying time to be alive, much less to "agree to disagree." What do we do about this?
We build alternatives that are the foundation for a 21st century human rights movement! We invite you to join our online course, Calling In: Creating Change Without Cancel Culture. In this course, we will:
Contextualize call-out culture as a logical result of systems of domination and control, such as white supremacy and patriarchy
Develop new language and frameworks for creating positive social change
Go beyond a diagnosis of the problems to engage in new practices with each other
Connect with others who are curious about Calling In and want to move away from defaulting to call outs and cancellations
Incorporate somatic or body-based practices into our toolbox
Gain clarity on a sense of belonging and purpose in a broader human rights movement
We look forward to sharing practical, immediately applicable ways to build towards a Calling In culture where each of us is more equipped to tackle the problems of our times head-on with more love, compassion, and joy.
