February 26: Calling all future ancestors
What timeless wisdom do you need right now?
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What does it mean to be a good ancestor in the face of rising fascism and anti-rights forces?
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Join creative visionary Elizabeth Seja Min, host Archana Deshpande and the Leap of Leadership community to explore stories and strategies for sticking together across time and generations.
We can illuminate unexpected strategies for a better future when we weave together our timeless, collective wisdom. What have you learned from your elders or youngers that’s helping you find strength right now? How can we stay “in relationship” with each other when it gets difficult to listen? What stories can we share to seed the grit and solidarity?
People from every generation have grappled with dark times and found creative ways to persevere. Keeping intergenerational communities together is one of the most important roles we can each play as future ancestors. When anti-rights forces try to dehumanize us, we affirm our humanity by sticking together. By tapping into our roots — and futures — we can find creative ways to stay resilient and connected in difficult times.
Elizabeth Seja Min
Elizabeth Seja Min is a tone-setter, leadership coach, infrastructure geek, problem solver, strategic designer, decision-making guide, documentor, partner and shepherd-at-large. She has helped hundreds of organizations communicate with heart, raise serious capital, collaborate and lead. Elizabeth has been in the trenches with every aspect of organization life, working on the most pressing social issues of our time. She’s built organizations and projects from the ground up and guided leaders and teams through times of serious strategic transition.
Elizabeth brings 40+ years of experience at the intersection of resource mobilization, leadership development, and creating the systems and cultures to bring out the best in people. She has been at the helm of 150+ projects, along with four U.S. nonprofit organizations focused on community cultural development. With Spring’s FIRE program, she has coached hundreds of organizations worldwide in creating compelling communications to mobilize resources for a more just world.
Archana Deshpande
Archana Deshpande is the host of Leap of Leadership, Spring Co-CEO and a multilingual, creative rights advocate, strategist, facilitator and Integral Master Coach™ . Born in Lusaka, Zambia, with roots in Western India, she leads the design and implementation of virtual and in-person financial resilience, facilitation and leadership development programs for hundreds of social and climate justice leaders and organizations, networks and leaders in the Global South.
Archana’s coaching is informed by several creative practices, spiritual traditions and a profound curiosity about human nature and potential. She believes major strides towards justice, life-giving societal change and liberation are possible through the cultivation of generosity, presence, strong communities along with intentional actions.
Previously, Archana led the creation and expansion of OpenGlobalRights — a multilingual, global forum that explores human rights policies and strategies as well as managed and conducted research on human rights organizations and public perceptions of human rights in India, Mexico, and Morocco. She has co-authored various publications on the resource mobilization challenges and opportunities for human rights groups in the Global South.
