"The Future We Long For Is Possible" with Mia Birdsong

<p>The future we long for is possible. Not because it arrives, or even will in our lifetimes, but because we learn to live into it now.</p><p>In this conversation with<a href="https://miabirdsong.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ⁠Mia Birdsong⁠</a>, we explore what it means to practice the future: in our organizations, our rituals, and in the ways we move through and make meaning of time.</p><p> Mia shares how<a href="https://www.nextriver.org/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> ⁠Next River⁠</a> is creating room for the world it seeks to build, from rethinking organizational calendars and rhythms to grounding freedom in deeper humanity, purpose, and community. We move beyond nostalgia for a different time and into the work of practicing the future now. </p><p>Along the way, we locate each other as fellow travelers on the arc toward justice and liberation, and invite others to join us in the unfolding of our freedom.</p><p>Together, we move back and forth between future and present, exploring abolition and invoking ancestral memory to ask what it means to practice freedom in an unfree world. </p><p>As Mia reminds us, “what we practice is the world we’re building.”</p><p>---</p><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xls9lvdPvDBDI-15Qorw_ElM8O535sR3/view?usp=drive_link" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><br /></a></p><p><br /></p><p><strong></strong><a href="https://freedomdreamsinphilanthropy.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><br /></a><br /></p>