Fabric, we have a great opportunity to continue the learning we started during Hearing Voices. The Intercultural Development Inventory (I.D.I.) is a respected tool for helping individuals and organizations grow in hearing, accepting, embracing and adapting to the intercultural voices around us. Because of our partnership with Augsburg University through the Riverside Innovation Hub, you are invited to take the I.D.I. and participate in a workshop at Augsburg this winter. Typically people have to pay or be part of a corporate or university setting to have access to this! 20 people took the IDI in January and had all good things to say.
For everyone with interest in the IDI (or who have taken it through Fabric/RIH or work) - you are invited to the RIH Winter Learning Event on Feb 15th from 8:30 - 3:30 in the Hagfor's Center at Augsburg University. RSVP here by Feb 5.
March 21 from 9:00am-12:00pm with light breakfast refreshments and coffee. We would get a community profile for Fabric and an overview of how to use the results. You will also have a chance to schedule an individual session with people who can guide you in understanding your individual results.
Learn even more and SIGN UP HERE by February 28.
Questions? Email Melissa.
Photos and reflections by Jeanette Mayo
The turn of the calendar tempts us with promises of newness—fresh starts, better habits, upgraded versions of ourselves. But what if, instead of charging ahead with self-improvement schemes, we took a cue from winter’s stillness? What if we let go of the relentless hustle and embraced the radical idea that we are already enough?
Fabric’s January series, “Give Up,” has invited us into this counterintuitive wisdom—the grace of resting, receiving, and recognizing our inherent worth. Nature doesn’t demand that a hibernating bear emerge as a “better” bear. Spring’s renewal is not about striving but about unfolding what has been there all along.
In Wintering, Katherine May reminds us that transformation often happens in the quiet, unseen spaces. And in Belonging, Toko-pa Turner challenges us to strengthen our “receiving muscle,” to accept the support woven into our interconnected lives. “You are the receiver of too many generosities to count,” she writes. “Count them anyway.”
So, what if we stopped trying to earn our existence? What if we acknowledged the trees, the friendships, the small kindnesses that hold us? What if, instead of striving, we surrendered to belonging?
You are the gift. That’s enough. May it be so.
-Ian