Below is a list of questions I’ve compiled in meditation over the past 4 months during the final quarter of 2024, concerning the wave of change that is washing over the planet as you read this. Please feel free to copy and paste and share in your community circles.

11 Questions to Pose in Community for 2025

1. What do the things being cleared away make space for?

2. How do we learn best?

3. What are we longing for (as specifically as possible)?

4. What are we being paid for (be as specific as you can, task-oriented)?

5. What is consistent in our lives?

6. What brings our walls up with others?

7. What helps us drop our walls with others?

8. How do we enjoy (thrive in) collaboration with others?

9. What unifies us with others?

10. What brings us and others healing?

11. What is our collective vision?

My Response to #11

1. My vision for the collective is: 

• Equity in decentralized social power

• Expert power sharing; skill-sharing

• Access for everyone to all basic needs

• Resources for anyone to create their dreams 

• Support for anyone with challenging needs

• Justice 

• Agency for every being

• Security for everyone who is alive and who will be

• Trade and exchange that isn’t capitalistic 

What kind of events/activities can bring community together?

• Boundary setting groups

• Meditation

• Flexible thinking exercises

• Creative gratitude practices

• Allowing for grief, pain and joy to move through the body without judgement: grief/pain circles, joy circles

• Dancing

• Food and cooking

• Communication: poetry open mic, interactive staged productions honouring orality