Dissolving Separations

“Separation is everywhere you look in the charity model… We note the evidence that complex human problems require deeply relational and collaborative approaches, and that treating them as separate is harmful and more expensive. And then we label these problems as ‘wicked’, as though the separations we have created are a fact of life that we have to deal with… If we aren’t relying on the exertion of control to hold separate variables together, then new forms of coherence and even order have the space to emerge… Instead of predictability, hierarchy and division, what if we leaned fully into interdependence, mutuality, community, entanglement?.. What would we need to give up to stop making ourselves safe and comfortable at the expense of others’ vulnerability?”