Collective Visioning for Systemic Change
Dreaming together: Reimagining justice, education, leadership & more.
🌬️ Grounding Invocation
Before we begin, take a collective breath.
Not just yours—feel the exhale of the ones who came before you.
The ancestors. The teachers. The ones who dared to dream a world beyond this one.
Inhale slowly through your nose—
Hold.
Exhale gently through your mouth.
Let your shoulders soften. Let your jaw unclench. Let the vision come closer.
Whisper to yourself:
“I don’t have to imagine this alone.”
Let’s begin.
The Revolution Has Always Been Imagined First
Every liberated future began as a dream.
Every abolitionist movement, every school without police, every thriving co-op, every freedom song—
All of it came from someone daring to imagine the “impossible.”
But the “impossible” only exists in systems that fear our imagination.
That punish us for asking why not.
That convince us liberation is a solo pursuit.
But collective visioning? That’s where the transformation begins.
It’s not about one person’s dream.
It’s about many dreams, rooted in relationship.
It’s about weaving together new ways of being that disrupt hierarchy, domination, and scarcity at the root.
In today’s piece, we explore:
Why imagination is a political act
How supremacy culture severed our ability to dream together
What collective visioning looks like in real-world movements
How to co-create new models of justice, education, and leadership
Rituals and prompts for building vision in community
This is a paid offering as part of the Season of Emergence series.
If you’re ready to imagine systems that don’t just repair the harm—but root it out completely…
If you’re longing for spaces to dream differently, lead differently, and build toward justice from the inside out…
Then I invite you to become a paid subscriber to Liberation Education.
You'll receive:
The full length article
A co-visioning ritual for your circle or cohort
Journal prompts to reimagine the systems you move within
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The future is ours to imagine—but we do it best when we do it together.