Detroit Emerging

Something very new is happening in Detroit. Largely unseen by the powerful elites who are locked in old ways of thinking, artists, visionaries, social philosophers, entrepreneurs, and new thinkers and doers recognize these new possibilities. The signs of this new emergence are everywhere for those who are willing to look beyond the headlines that blind us. This past weekend was a vivid example of the new ways of living being created in Detroit.

People came from Turkey, Brazil, Canada, the UK, Texas, Ohio, Wisconsin, New York and around the country to immerse themselves in a Learning Journey of Detroit. Under the guidance of Margaret Wheatley and the Boggs Center people spent four days observing with “open hearts and strong backs” the new ways of living evolving in our city. They visited urban gardens growing community along with vegetables, explored the difference between a job and new work in a church basement designed to challenge and develop the creative imagination of children, walked with people creating community relationships of peace and forgiveness and witnessed the creativity of our young people, guided by adults willing to hear, help and heal them toward their future.