Diné Community Advocacy Alliance (DCAA)
Tessy Britton
Description: Welcome to social change, happening at the speed of trust and inclusion. At home, at work, in society. Out in August 2023.
I am a social entrepreneur and author. For thirty years, my job has been to travel the world and tell people how to fix things faster. But inside of me, I had a growing sense that I was overlooking something important. What I realized was, that whenever people in power — whether in business, activism, politics, or at home — try to rush to answers, they create divisions and produce failure. Our quest to improve things faster traps us like a hamster wheel. It was only when I opened up to slowness that I disco
Don’t sacrifice inclusion, participation, or sustainability for the sake of rushing to action. The Slow Lane strives to find solutions for everyone, in keeping with the ancient slogan “Nothing about us, without us”, brought to life by disability activists around the world in the 1990s. Iceland did just that, when during the financial crisis it resisted the impulse to restore the old order, and instead invited citizens to rewrite their constitution. Holding the urgency is to know that rushing to action won't
Don’t pretend. Act with the humility to know the limitations of your listening. How you listen reveals whether you intend to treat others as equal contributors. User Voice broke the toxic power dynamics in the probation system by recruiting ex-offenders to do the listening. This kind of listening is essential to build the kind of trust that can change hearts and minds, allow something new to emerge, and keep people involved for the long haul.
Diné Community Advocacy Alliance (DCAA)
Tessy Britton