Remember Your Special Role to Reenergize
“She Finally Found the Thing That Worked” Acrylic, collage and oil pastel on canvas. Original is available.
Here are a few ideas from me to help you SHOW up and GROW in your life!
1. I Noticed I Was Feeling A Bit Powerless + Irrelevant Last Week ….Until I discovered this lovely graphic (below) that helped me REMEMBER that I have a specific purpose in this revolution!:)
(see below for description of each role!)
What’s Your Social Change Role?
Social Change Ecosystem Framework
“The social change ecosystem framework is a tool to clarify values, identify roles, and support organizations, campaigns, and networks committed to solidarity, justice, and equity. Learn more at socialchangemap.com
“Guides
We teach counsel, and advise, using our gifts of well-earned discernment and wisdom.
“Weavers
We see the through-lines of connectivity between people, places, organizations, ideas, and movements.
“Experimenters
We innovate, pioneer, and invent. We take risks and course correct as needed.
“Frontline Responders
We address community crises by assembling and organizing resources, networks, and messages.
“Visionaries
We imagine and generate our boldest possibilities, hopes, and dreams, and remind us of our direction.
“Builders
We develop, organize, and implement ideas, practices, people, and resources in service to a collective vision.
“Caregivers
We nurture and nourish the people around us by creating and sustaining a community of care, joy, and connection.
“Disrupters
We take uncomfortable and risky actions to shake up the status quo to raise awareness, and to build power.
“Healers
We recognize and tend to the generational and current traumas caused by oppressive systems, institutions, policies, and practices.
“Storytellers
We craft and share our community stories, cultures, experiences, histories, and possibilities through art, music, media, and movement”
“Copyright Deepa lyer SM, 2017 . “Get involved at www. socialchangemap. com
I see myself in visionary, healer and storyteller…how about YOU?
This clarity reminded me of my most precious role and work to do.
2. Astrology Often Inspires Me At The Mythical Level and This Week is BIG. Apparently, we have just completed a tour of Pluto through Capricorn (2008-2024!) which rocked our relationships, careers , finances and family dynamics. Beginning this week, according to Virginia Rosenberg one of my favorite Astrology writers, the next twenty years will impact you in a special way. Read what your sun sign and rising sign will be here if you’d like a mythical hint!
3. Quote That Has Me Feeling ENERGIZED this Week:
“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal. I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence.”
– Toni Morrison
Some things I am doing this week to “go to work”—
I am making bad art daily at my card table in the living room.
I am going to go out with “Free Mom Hugs” group in my town to offer hugs at the TRANS day of REmemberance Today
I am attending an art show AND a local performance
I am writing THIS newsletter to you!:)
4. Learn How to GROW Your Own Comfort Zone. The key to personal growth is stepping out of our comfort zone. But we can overdo it—challenging ourselves to the point where we are overwhelmed and no learning can occur. In this clip Buddist teacher Pema Chödrön offers us a tool for practicing self-compassion as we push ourselves into unfamiliar territory. WATCH HERE.
5. Welcome to my imaginary dinner party where all my #creativeheroes are guests!
Meet. Ashley Longshore…her hilarious memoir, “You Don’t Look Fat, You Look Crazy” should be required reading for any newly hatched artist! Her pop art paintings featuring dogs peeing on #birkin bags and her portraits of #mayaangelou , #dollyparton and others drew me in.
She grew up in the south and had to fight to shake off the expectation that she’d become a trophy wife. She’s the most generous, REAL, hardworking + hilarious creator I know. I got to meet her in person a year ago at her #sohogallery —what a treat! Visit her site today.
(my art below- a dinner plate featuring Ashely Longshore)
(image below from my sketchbook when I was in NYC after meeting her!)
I am wishing you a wonderful rest of the week and HIGHLY recommend that you grab a copy of my BOUNDARIES WORKBOOK if you haven’t already! It’s making magical ripples out in the world!
Much love,
Sarah
P.S. In January we are going to practice adding one small habit for 30 days…it will be a mini-creative soul retrieval! You can learn more here and register.
P.S.S. The 8 MINUTE AWARD WINNING documentary I co-produced “Follow Your Feel Good: The Art of Sarah Seidelmann” is an Official Selection of the Duluth Superior Film Festival.
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