16. Being Brave & Making Space
Micky ScottBey Jones she/diva- the Justice Doula - accompanies people as they birth more love, justice and shalom into our world. As a womanist, contemplative activist, movement chaplain, certified Enneagram coach and trainer and nonviolence practitioner, Micky supports students, clergy, activists and everyday leaders in a variety of roles - speaker, writer, facilitator, pilgrimage guide, consultant and teacher. She is the Director of Resilience and Healing Initiatives with Faith Matters Network and the visionary leader of the Daring Compassion Movement Chaplaincy Project focused on infusing movements for social change with accompaniment, care, healing and resilience. Micky was a core team member with The People’s Supper who gathered more than 10,000 people around tables after the 2016 U.S. election for bridging and healing conversations. A lifelong learner, Micky has a B.S. in Consumer and Family Sciences and a M.A. in Intercultural Studies from NAIITS/Portland Seminary and is constantly taking a new class or reading a new book. A believer in the power of stories and empathy, she is also a facilitator and Master Practitioner Candidate with Narrative 4. She is the author of Keep the Fires Burning: Conquering Stress and Burnout as a Mother-Baby Professional and contributing author of Becoming Like Creoles: Living and Leading at the Intersections of Injustice, Culture and Religion and Keep Watch With Me: An Advent Reader for Peacemakers.
Featured by the Nobel Women’s Initiative’s #16DaysOfBoldChange, racial justice fellow for Christians for Social Action and named one of the Black Christian leaders changing the world in Huffington Post, Micky is known worldwide for exploring peacemaking and justice movements in different contexts, across continents, crafting experiences for brave space, transformation and revolutionary love, compelling storytelling, engaging in authentic conversations - and most importantly - never passing up a dance floor.
She has been a contributor on many platforms including Christians For Social Action, The Porch Magazine, Sojourners, Our Bible App, and Red Letter Christians, and many podcasts including CTZNWELL, The Liturgists, Lord Have Mercy and Homebrewed Christianity.
Micky dropped knowledge about:
Healing Work for Movement Builders
Burnout and How to Prioritize Self-Care
Being Instead of Doing
The Year of Covid-19
Dreaming and Working During Crisis
How Families Have Been Impacted by the Loss of Loved Ones Due to Covid-19
How we Cannot Meditate Covid-19 Away
The Value of Consistent Check Ins with Community
The Importance of Teachers and Mentors
A Commitment to Not Dying on the Altar of Justice
You can find more about her work at www.faithmattersnetwork.org and check out her social media on Facebook and Twitter.
The Daring Compassion Program at Faith Matters Network has trained 100s of folks worldwide in movement chaplaincy. We are currently accepting registrations for the Summer cohort and will have a Fall cohort as well. My vision is accompaniment, healing and resilience building woven into our movements for social change so that we might thrive as we resist and create new futures!
Brave Space Poem
Together we will create brave space.
Because there is no such thing as a “safe space” —
We exist in the real world.
We all carry scars and we have all caused wounds.
In this space
We seek to turn down the volume of the outside world,
We amplify voices that fight to be heard elsewhere,
We call each other to more truth and love.
We have the right to start somewhere and continue to grow.
We have the responsibility to examine what we think we know.
We will not be perfect.
This space will not be perfect.
It will not always be what we wish it to be.
But
It will be our brave space together,
and
We will work on it side by side.
Podcast music by Charles Kurtz