🌱 I long for a just community. Can we talk?


Dear community

I long for a just community.
I long for tough conversations held with love and connection.
I long for us working together for a better future, for ourselves and for generations to come.
I long for a society where ancestral wisdom is welcomed everywhere.

Where queer is normal.
Where we take on our unlearning and grow together.
Where we can sit in difficult conversations with loving awareness.

A place where we loosen the grip of money, and hold a vision of something new.

I feel a longing for deeper connection, especially in person.
To stand together towards justice in our own ways.
To meet each other with life energy and compassion for all that we carry.

Because I really believe we can.
Even if I don’t fully know how.
Something in me knows we can.

An orchid doesn't flower every day, but still needs tending.
Just like community.
Just like ourselves.

Can we talk? How do we make this happen?

If this speaks to you, reply YES and let’s have a playful, real conversation.


I’m going to pause more prompts for now.

Instead, I want to reach out, one conversation at a time, and ask.

How do we create a just community together?


If how I’m showing up resonates with you, or even if it doesn’t, I’d love to talk.
I have a sense that what you want, I want it too. I can feel it in my body.


If you'd like to step into how I feel we can create a just community, here's four ways I'm showing up.

• Join the next PROJECT 10⁹
Thursday 9 April - 8:30am UK | 10:30am Nairobi | 5pm Adelaide

• Come to Convergence Residency, Nairobi (20–24 May 2026)
There’s also an open day if you want to get a feel for it - Register here
Thursday 26 March - 1pm UK | 4pm Nairobi | 11.30pm Melbourne

• Join me tonight for the Men’s Circle - email me an emoji
We’re exploring attachment and how we relate to others as men

• Bring Rise in Our Roots to your community, wherever you are in the world


And a song that feels true to the CEO Rockstar group right now 🎶

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Everything Is Everything
Ms. Lauryn Hill
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