Imagining a future that has not yet emerged - Foundation Office South Africa
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The politics of the recent months has seen active citizen protests across the country. Yet in many ways current politics and protests have highlighted how divided the country remains. It is of course critically important to acknowledge and address what divides us, but it is as important to have a space for debate in which we may imagine what could happen if we stood together. It is only through being in the same room together that we may engage fully with these pressing questions.
Please consider this as personal invitation to be a part of something that we all need each other for. A few of us are beginning to ask this question of a future that has yet to be written……
WHAT IF…….
WE could acknowledge our differences and still begin to write a new story of South Africa, across all walks of life, across all the things that divide us?
WE could authentically confront our history, our current reality, and still have the resolve to dream of building an equal and just society where all of us can begin to feel our sense of belonging deep in our souls?
YOU had the opportunity to do something about it…. NOW?
Would you?
If you are up for it, we would love you to be a part of a bold initiative, hosted by DUT and the DDP, to begin this conversation with 100 other people who feel the same way.
If you decide to come into the room, be prepared to:
•Challenge your own belief system and world view
•Be completely open to listening to others with the intention of understanding and not judging
•Engage in uncomfortable but respectful conversations
•Go beyond the talk and to use your personal power in all the spaces you are in to continue the conversation
Together we will ask difficult questions, seek honest responses to these, share our stories, and engage each other as people who wish to both confront current inequalities, and imagine what it would mean to live in a just country. Imagining together helps us recognize and confront the challenges in obtaining this future. It also asks us do the hard work of articulating not just what we are fighting against, but what it is we are fighting for.