Social Intelligence for Justice
Inner capacity, clear thinking, historical understanding, and collective action.
The seed
Children think deeply when someone takes them seriously.
One afternoon in our first classroom, the children made collages of what they longed for, the tangible and the intangible. Page after page, one word kept returning: safety. Then a boy of ten wrote one word in the space for the intangible: tears. When I asked why, he said, “Because tears are part of life.” He was ten, and he was right. When the course ended, the mothers wrote asking us to return and teach the next stage. That letter is our true founding document. Not a needs assessment. Not a diagnosis of damage.
Read how Zera began ↗
