Cohesion Strategy

Cohesion Strategy

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A Democracy worth Fighting In
Why we need to challenge nihilistic narratives in order to bridge, block, build, and *feel we belong* in a truly pluralistic democracy.
 • Cohesion Strategy
The banality of decency: Why ordinary civic life may be our most powerful overstory.
Have y’all heard of overstories?
 • Cohesion Strategy
Democracy’s Next Founding: Building the Infrastructure for Collective Wisdom
Reflections from TED Democracy: Founding Futures
 • Julia Kemner and Cohesion Strategy
Murmurations
To and Fro
Published on Into The Torah-verse! • 
Demystifying religion and philanthropy
Why philanthropy’s discomfort with religion may be undermining democracy, pluralism, and social cohesion at the very moment they most need…
 • Cohesion Strategy
From Rubble to Rumble: Reinvigorating HOPE through the harrow
Introducing a new member of the flock, reflecting on the here-to-theres, the language that carries us, and moving forward in our 250th year.
 • Julia Kemner and Cohesion Strategy
What’s in the Word? Metaphor and the Architecture of Pluralism
How the language we use shapes belonging, conflict, and the possibility of staying in relationship across difference
 • Cohesion Strategy
Cohesion Strategy
Cohesion Strategy
A Substack about navigating difference, building belonging, and strengthening democracy from the ground up. Birds of a feather, we flock together. #Pluralism #ExpandWhatsPossible
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