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Leadership, management and enchantment. https://open.substack.com/pub/freshthinking what if beneath all the noise there’s still a song playing ancient, unbroken, waiting? https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/an-introduction-to-relational-disobedience-4693683

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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 11d

If you would like to explore the potential of Relational Disobedience with us through story, theory and practice then please do join us.

Pay as you feel. Free is fine.

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An Introduction to Relational Disobedience

There are times when obedience is deadly. Relational disobedience is the choice to refuse that deadening obedience. It is the courage to respond as a living, sensing, creative human being.

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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 4h

I’d much rather talk about us ‘reaching people’ or ‘connecting’ than ‘cutting through’

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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 8h

An Introduction to Relational Disobedience

There are times when obedience is deadly. Relational disobedience is the choice to refuse that deadening obedience. It is the courage to respond as a living, sensing, creative human being.

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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 7h

First They Came (2025)
(After Martin Niemöller)

First they came for the immigrants,
and for the refugees who fled the fires we helped to light.
They said it was about sovereignty, not cruelty.
They said the country was full,
though their own wives and mothers had crossed the same waters.
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 5h

It may well be…

Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 5h

Indeed we might!
For me, we are the cosmos ‘playing hide and seek with itself’…

Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 5h

So, we can know ‘some’ of what we are doing?
Or is at all an act of (good) faith?

Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 6h

And even this who act badly serve as teachers…

Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 6h

How very true!
We really don’t know what we are doing…

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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 6h

Ivor, you can’t blame the manufacturers for meeting our demands!
What kind of crazy ideology is that?
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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 6h

And, perhaps, the kicker is we cannot be sure whether what we do will be ‘good’ or not.

Most likely, if judged by ‘results’ it will be ‘good in parts’.

And only the actor knows whether it was purely ‘good’ in intent…

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Jenny33K @hopefulinthepeaks.bsky.social · 6h

Interesting given the ‘caution’. Rather than interpret this as a hierarchy of faith hate, better to focus on its overall rise and pervasiveness, and how this can be addressed in part by faiths coming together in mutual support. We need the Interfaith Network restored (defunded by Gove last year)

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 8h

BBC asking Bridget Phillipson at length about rising antisemitism in the UK (which actually fell last year according to new figures, albeit still very high) but not at all about rising Islamophobia, which is up by 19% year-on-year

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 8h

High street slot machine shops, owned by Merkur, are paying their staff bonuses linked to how much gamblers lose.

Companies chase profits by spreading misery, exploiting vulnerable people

Gambling Commission must shut down these parasites.

High street slot machine shops pay staff bonuses linked to how much gamblers lose

Exclusive: MPs and campaigners condemn ‘appalling’ reward scheme for Merkur venue managers

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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 7h

And there was no one left
who remembered what care had sounded like.
(12/12)

Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 7h

And finally, they came for the rest of us;
the automated, the placated, the no-longer-necessary.
We who traded craft for convenience,
community for control,
presence for prediction.
They did not need to silence us;
we had already stopped speaking.
(11/12)

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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 7h

Then they came for the earth herself;
for the rivers, the bees, the listening trees.
They said it was good for growth,
and that God would provide.
I turned up the newsfeed,
and turned down the hum of the world.
Because grief was inconvenient.
(10/12)

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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 7h

I said nothing,
because I still had signal and a wage.
(9/12)

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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 7h

Then they came for the poor,
the jobless, the displaced by the algorithms.
They said machines were progress,
and that anyone left behind had only themselves to blame.
They measured worth in clicks and code,
until even our faces became data to be mined.
(8/12)

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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 7h

Then they came for the judges,
for the laws that once bound even the powerful.
They gerrymandered the maps,
hollowed the ballots,
and crowned the felon as saviour.
They said the system was rigged;
then rigged it in plain sight.
I said nothing,
because I told myself history was complicated.
(7/12)

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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 7h

I said nothing,
because it was exhausting to argue with neighbours and friends.
(6/12)

Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 7h

Then they came for the journalists and the teachers,
for those who still spoke in paragraphs.
They said the media was fake,
and the classrooms corrupt.
They taught us to doubt the doubters,
and to mistake obedience for truth.
(5/12)

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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 7h

Then they came for the protestors,
calling them antifa, agitators, domestic terrorists.
They unmade the right to gather and to grieve.
I told myself I was tired of disruption,
that law and order kept us safe.
And I said nothing.
Because it was only other people’s children in the streets.
(4/12)

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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 7h

Then they came for the Muslims,
and the trans people,
and anyone whose body unsettled the order of things.
They called it common sense,
and told us freedom meant uniformity.
I said nothing,
because my skin still passed,
and I still felt welcome in the queue.
(3/12)

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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 7h

I said nothing,
because my papers were clean and my accent familiar.
(2/12)

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Mike Chitty @mikechitty.bsky.social · 7h

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Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @joshuaeakle.com · 22h

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child.

She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck.

This is not about immigration enforcement.

It's about terrorizing Americans.

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