Activating our spiritualism and spiritualizing our activism at Ithaca College
Many of us feel that humanity is on a verge of immense changes that are already starting to happen. What is common to all of us is that we either work at Ithaca College or are associated with it and that we care.
We believe that the spirit of Love, Unity and Selfless service can help Ithaca College thrive and transform as the world is going through this wave.
We recognize that higher education, and IC, are changing and that we have many assets here that can be put to use in new ways if they become no longer needed in the ways they're currently being used. The music school is an exception, but in general we believe that the campus community will be changing over the next few years, and we'd like to have positive input on how its new iteration takes shape.
Our goal is to create a community that excludes no one and is based on trust and loving support.
Our first step is to have small informal groups (of 3 - 6 people more or less) who learn to know each other and share ideas. This is the start.
We do not have an agenda.
There are no commitments, there'll be no extra work, and heavens, there are no committees or paperwork! Just thoughtful sharing of ideas and hopes for what our campus community -- and by extension the broader community -- can become in these times of great upheaval in our political economies and in the natural world, when approached with love and care as the guiding principles.
Maybe thinking of it as "activating our spiritualism and spiritualizing our activism" (*whatever "spirit" means to you) will help put it in some kind of context. That's how we're thinking about it.
