We are magic together.

Published 3 months ago • 3 min read

I've hosted an online workshop to do YearCompass in community for the last 4 years and this year's might have been the best one yet. It didn't feel like a Zoom webinar at all. Here's the combo of ingredients that made it so good:

  • The world is a hot mess right now and we all needed a cozy space to land, reflect and dream
  • Participants showed up and were real and generous with themselves and each other (special thanks to Ravi, Shae, Mary and Reem for being your glorious and tender selves)
  • Co-creating with Em House was absolutely magical. They are deep, deeply weird, caring and creative. The handwashing ritual was so simple and effective.

Here's what a few people had to say:

  • So appreciate this space! Leaving so connected and excited for this world and the people hoping to shape it positively.
  • Thank you for the gift of presence and caring, intentional community!
  • Can't wait to be involved in Seasons of Change. Thanks Tara and Em for the magic you create in these spaces.

It was my first workshop of the year and it's planted the seed for how I want to lead workshops, both in person and online and both in corporate and community spaces.

Seasons of Change: Personal Emergence & Collective Magic

Join Em and me at four seasonal online gatherings to keep what matters most to you alive in 2026.

Within this chaotic world we are holding a place for you to come back to your big vision. We invite you to keep what matters most to you alive and growing through the seasons with others who are doing the same thing. A certain kind of magic happens when we do this work in community--if you came to our YearCompass workshop you know what I'm talking about.

If you don't know Em House yet, here's their bio, which is delightful:

Em (they/them) is a Co-Active Coach, a Gestalt therapist, and an educator hell-bent on helping folks reconnect with and re-wild the parts of us that were never meant to be domesticated. With a previous professional background in outdoor youth leadership, reproductive healthcare, identity-inclusive workplace changemaking, and grassroots political organizing, Em is a rock tumbler full of grit, shine, and fun, mixed with a firm commitment to move into the truth of things and create from the divine mess of human complexity. Em loves earth-based rituals, making art with friends, and navigating their 4-year-old daughter’s imaginative world.

Rupture and Repair

As structures crumble and fall around us I'm thinking a lot about the world I want to live in and what I can help build now. We need to rethink the justice system and how we respond to crappy behaviour in our communities.

We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice by adrienne maree brown has some ideas.

Also: the cover is bright pink. 🩷

Smart people to follow

Dr. Syrus Marcus Ware on Instagram

Syrus is a an artist, activist and scholar. This 9 minute video is a great resource if you're starting to get involved in activism, or re-engaging. Syrus offers some tips and strategies for people organizing in these times:

We can keep each other safe, free, together. We just need to be smart about organizing in these times, in this digital age of deep fakes and online life. Here’s some thinks to think through- we got this fam.

Dr. Tressie McMillian Cottom on Instagram

Tressie is a Professor, NYT Columnist, MacArthur Genius and author. She also likes to lift weights.

She is brilliant and I love hearing her thoughts on such a wide range of topics from: politics, country music, the economy, class analysis on things, weightlifting, Sumo deadlifts vs conventional deadlifts and plastic surgery.

When I hear she's on a podcast I drop everything and go listen. I always learn new things, especially how she connects the dots between race and class. And she's funny.

Priya Parker on Substack

Priya Parker is the author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters. This is likely the book I've recommended the most in the last few years: to comms folks, event planners and conference organizers.

I recently joined Group Life, her Substack community after watching loved the live with Katie Riley, Deputy Campaign Manager of the Zohran Mamdani campaign. There's some free content in Group Life and some only for paid subscribers.

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