So many of us come into organisational work seeking a place for our activism.
But once inside the organisational system, our aspirations for creating radical change powered by feminist care and love get lost in the technocratic parameters of ‘key responsibility areas,’ suppressed by the expectations of risk-averse funders, and burnt out by chronic fatigue.
Perhaps you wonder why your one team member is so defensive about their work-life boundaries, or why it is the fifth time you’ve gotten the flu this year and it’s only May. (You tell yourself it’s the weather. The travel. Your seven-year old bringing germs home from school…)
For our organisations to be places where we experience community, agency and love, the compass needle of our collective action must point towards the intersection of our activisms, not separate us from them.
The time you invest in strategy building with your team is a critical time for finding those intersections.
It creates transformative space to reckon with the relevance and effectiveness of your organisational beliefs and practices,
You get to geek out about the projects that most excite you,
discussions surface what truly matters in the collective work,
Your team rediscovers a shared purpose,
There’s opportunity to usher in shifts to the ways of working that need it most.
At Moon Tide Collective, we do not consider the internal dynamics of your team as separate from the relationships you have with your partners and the impact you make in collaboration with them. We are all interdependent of each other for as long as we recognise ourselves as part of the same ecosystem.
Through an iterative, multi-layered and interactive inquiry, Moon Tide Collective works alongside you to co-create strategic frameworks that resonate with the nuances of your team’s diverse politics and expertise, reflect your collective desires as a team, and meet the visions of partnership articulated by your communities of activism and practice.
In working with us, you will undergo a process that is necessarily emergent, politically grounded, and courageous in light of the invitation it will surface for your team to let go of beliefs and practices that do not serve, and embrace change as a perpetual state of being.
