What do you do when your plans utterly fail? If we can be honest, all change work at some point will fail, and break our hearts. How might we work with these less ideal, less controllable aspects? 

Join SICI Visiting Social Innovator, Nate Mullen, for a conversation about how we can understand these powerful aspects of our work. Drawing on Nate’s experience as an artist and educator, we’ll discuss lessons learned from failures in community organizing in Detroit and engage practices that allow us to leverage our inherent precarity. Participants will leave with the capacity to acknowledge that the start of every movement, policy, and organization is also a commitment to its end.

The workshop is named after a chapter title in Rebecca Solnit’s No Straight Road Takes You There.

All HUID-holders are welcome. Artists, movement-builders, and social changemakers are especially encouraged to join.