COMMUNITY
VISIONING
WORKSHOPS

Our Community Visioning workshop process was collaboratively made by Native American Community Development Institute and Emily Johnson/Catalyst during the making of SHORE: Minneapolis. We wanted to create a form for the ideas sparked by the questions: What do you want for your well being? Your family and friends? Your neighborhood? Your city, town or reserve?

SHORE Community Visioning Session  inspires collective responsibility in imagining and creating the future, individual and community agency, and the ability for imagination to become action, thus manifesting true change. Through games and discourse we brainstorm and expand upon hundreds of ideas, providing ourselves with a map to the future we want. 

Emily has led Community Visioning Workshops in Minneapolis and Richfield, MN, Vancouver, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, Tucson, Homer, AK and Williamstown, MA. 

Emily Johnson: A Vision Board for Neighborhoods by Eva Yaa Asantewaa

 
Office, Minneapolis, MN, US612.597.7400emily@catalystdance.com

Emily Johnson / Catalyst is based on Mannahatta in Lenapehoking. We work to pay respect to Lenape homeland, people and ancestors past, present, and future by organizing with communities from the Lenape diaspora to build pathways for Lenapeyok return. We have been taught to name Lenape Nations and say cama’i to our relatives from Delaware Tribe of Indians in Bartlesville, OK; Delaware Nation of Oklahoma in Anadarko, OK; Stockbridge-Munsee and Mohican Community in Wisconsin; Moravian Delaware of the Thames in Ontario, Canada; Munsee-Delaware Nation at Munceytown in Ontario, Canada; Delaware of Six Nations in Ontario, Canada. 

We strive to be in good relations with our kin—human and more than human—and in effort to support growing kinstillatory relations and sovereign, liberated futures we are anti-colonial and abolitionist in all capacities. We are committed to on-the-ground water and land protection, consistent decolonization work, and Land Back. 

Quyanaqvaa-lli elpeni to all Sovereign Nations, Indigenous and First Nations people who live in relation to and from Lenapehoking and upon whose lands we work and tour.

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