A SPACE TO PRACTICE

POSTURES TO WEATHER THE WAVES

(OF DISRUPTION, UNCERTAINTY, AND NOISE)

AS WE TRAVEL FROM WHAT IS TO WHAT CAN BE

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ANCHORED IN THE WAY, WAY BACK
& THE WAY, WAY FUTURE

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The What

STL Sandbox is an invitation to practice moving through complex (often layered, ingrained, systemic) challenges toward a freer and fairer future - again, and again, and again.

We emphasize the intersection between the individual and the collective (organization, community, institution, system) and empower individuals to consider, calibrate, and craft their own actions to better contribute to group- and ecosystem-level shifts. None of the biggest problems we face can be solved or mitigated by one person alone, and yet each of us (alone and together) is our own source of greatest potential, opportunity, and agency. Participation in STL Sandbox means rethinking your own process, reassessing your context, expanding your methods and modes of being, and looking for more ways to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with others.

The Outcomes

As participants in STL Sandbox you can expect the following outcomes from this practice:

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An understanding of your unique position, necessary vantage point, and specific opportunities and responsibilities within rooms and groups and systems in which you find yourself in.

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Ability to ORIENT

- i.e. see more clearly and confidently where you (and your power!) are located within the larger systems around you.

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Willingness and capacity to GRAPPLE

- i.e. take responsibility for and engage in complex shifts forward with an eye on connections to and ripples through a bigger vision.

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Confidence and motivation to REORIENT FOR ACTION

- i.e. reset your pace of progress to include continuous and considered elegant steps.

The Why

In most spaces and places what we need is something very different than what we have. Even when noble aims are in place, the behaviors, structures, and choices that are ‘on automatic’ often leave us re-entrenching patterns that serve neither us nor our descendants. And yet, equipping ourselves with the understanding that our default ways of being and acting are harmful is not enough.

A freer and fairer future is possible and already in process. The future we seek cascades more quickly the more skilled-up we each are.

STL Sandbox is a space to practice the thinking and behaviors that will not only catalyze what’s possible but also build more pockets of enduring commitment and determined togetherness wherever you are.