• What is needed to create a world where everyone’s needs are adequately met?
• What is needed to create a world free of all forms of systemic oppression?
• What would it take for us to effectively address the ecological challenges of our society?

We would like to invite you to engage in a series of dialogues with us to reflect on these complex, but important questions of our time. As Lucille Clifton once suggested, “we cannot create what we can’t imagine”. Considering that the structures which currently govern our society were too imagined, there is good reason to believe that it is indeed possible to imagine and create an alternative paradigm that would be better suited for all of humanity and our environment. And in fact, various groups across the world are courageously experimenting with alternative models.

We hope that through these on-going conversations, we can collectively unpack the contradictions of our society, including what might be needed to shift to a new paradigm. To-date we have had five group discussions where we explored how to create a safe space for these dialogues; explored social change issues that people were aware of; we also workshopped some key ingredients to effective social change from the perspective of those in attendance.

Our next discussion is scheduled for May 18, 2021 (7 – 8: 30 PM EDT). At this session, we will explore what new paradigms might be needed to address issues such as: affordable housing, vaccine accessibility, climate justice, child care, etc. These themes arose from our previous discussions. In case you have other topics you would like to suggest, please feel free to email us.

To join us for this dialogue, please RSVP to receive the Zoom link. We hope to see you then. In the meantime, should you have any further questions or suggestions, please email us at ica@icacan.org.