We spill over into the world, and the world spills over into us.
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a Potawatomi botanist,
author, and the director of the Center for Native Peoples
“This reminds me of the impact we have on those around us and the world at large and how others and the world are impacting us. Robin is pointing to the dynamism of the fields in which we are interconnected.
Alan Briskin, Ph.D. is a pioneer in the field of
organizational learning and co-founder of the Collective Wisdom Initiative
The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions hidden by the answers.
James Baldwin (1924-1987) was an
American writer and civil rights activist
“I love this quote because it speaks to the false reassurance of answers that prioritize certainty over inquiry. Genuine art arises from the unconscious, and the unconscious teaches us to seek what is hidden and invisible. In the social world Baldwin writes from, conventional answers about race and gender often mask deeper injustices — wounds that make us deaf and blind to the ache beneath the explanations. Art becomes a living bridge between the conscious and the unconscious, a space where image, emotion, and insight mingle. In that threshold field, the hidden becomes visible, and we remember what it means to feel and to see anew.”
Mary Gelinas, Ed.D. is an organization development consultant
devoted to the art of conscious social change
