Move beyond the overwhelm and toward making gentle change.
If you’re doomscrolling the news and want to begin taking action…
Every week, I send out resources and training on how to create sustainable, relational change, so we can make a meaningful difference in our communities and world.
In a world filled with intersecting crises and urgent calls to action, it’s hard to know in which direction to move.
So many of us want to act – to make a difference – but we’re frozen by beliefs that we need to have big, perfect solutions, that we aren’t doing enough, that we don’t know enough, or that we’ll take the wrong first step.
We feel stuck in inaction because we don’t quite know where or how to start.
The truth is: for many of us, we just haven’t practiced enough.
It can be scary to push back on a toxic boss, to attend our first-ever protest, to challenge our MAGA family members and still hold tender the relationship – to step into a world of activism with all the images and ideas swirling around in our heads of what that means.
Even more so, it can take a world of courage to face our own inner hesitation, our “should monsters,” our defensiveness, and our sense of comfort with the status quo – especially when we don’t have a community of folks doing this work around us.
Embodying the energy of a gentle change-maker can be daunting – but we can each do it.
And here’s my one-sentence take on how:
We stay gentle with ourselves and the outcomes; we stay fierce in our commitment to change.
Each of us lives within a unique context and set of communities – which means what is “ours to do” will look different for each of us. We create change most effectively when we begin where we are, with what we have to offer, and with the folks around us.
Welcome, I’m Andrew Lang
I work with folks who are overwhelmed with everything going on in the world to begin making intentional, sustainable, meaningful change in their communities.
"We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness.” – Grace Lee Boggs
For the past decade, I’ve worked with teachers, coaches, retirees, local government task forces, schools, school districts – folks in all different life seasons and organizations in all different areas of work.
And my guiding question is always the same: How can we embody healing and justice in the ways we’re moving within our communities?
This is the core question of a “gentle change” approach to activism that meets us where we are and helps us carry a posture of experimentation rather than perfection.
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