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America Ferreira is a culture-shifting artist

from real women have curves, ugly Betty and superstore

to her social healing initiative, Harness.

John Paul Letterock is one of our greatest living architects of social transformation

from Nepal to Northern Ireland to Colombia.

We brought these two together at the 2018 on-being gathering,

what follows is a revelatory joyous exploration of the ingredients of social courage

and how change really happens in generational time.

Where did we nourish and foster the creative imagination

that permits you to bring into the world something that does not now exist?

That's the real challenge of a lot of the work of conflict,

is that you're trying to bring something that does not now exist. That's the creative act.

Sometimes all we have to do is shift our attention and shift the light

and allow for these people with powerful strong voices and stories and solutions

to speak for themselves.

And that's I've found so much power in shifting that light.

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