Breathing, Through Big Change
🔦 It's another week and there's more chaos and more alarming news. That's what we're doing now.
There's a lot of pushing back against all this... but we also need to find our way through.
We're going to need strength and resilience to do that. To find our way through.
People often reference the metaphor that you need to put on your own oxygen mask before you help other people, like if you're in an airplane and there's a loss of cabin pressure.
You can't help anyone else if you can't breathe.
Anyway, that's what we're talking about this week in fierce community. We're doing conversations Wednesday night and Friday afternoon on Zoom. We have only a couple of people signed up for each so far, but we’re holding the space to talk with whoever shows up. That’s how this goes. We build forward from here.
WEDNESDAY — Oxygen Masks for Americans - How Do We Breathe Through This? Jul 30, 2025
FRIDAY — Oxygen Masks for Americans - How Do We Breathe Through This? Aug 1, 2025
There are more Zooms next week on heart stuff, and the next week on finding robustness and doing more with it.
We’re doing this stuff together because we need connection, community, creativity, leadership, empowerment, alliances, and resilience in an era of rising instability and societal disruption.
We go through together. We have to help each other forward and through.
This situation in the US isn't going to magically resolve. This is our lives and our life and our country. So let's get into it.
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Vanessa Burnett is the director at Fierce Community. This nonprofit work promotes civic engagement through connection, community, creativity, leadership, empowerment, alliances, and resilience (CCCLEAR!) in an era of rising instability and societal disruption. Vanessa is a social entrepreneur, advisor, and empower-er for doing fierce community in a time of disruption and disaster. Ms. Burnett has a rare systems-level understanding of the pieces and parts that modern society needs in order to survive that can help people and groups navigate this era of fast change and unprecedented challenges. Email fiercecommunityteam@gmail.com to set up a conversation.