Dr. Jemal’s Ethos

Grown from a Critical Action Project Experiments seed.

Soulcial Work Praxis is a philosophic, socio-cultural, practice-based, and theoretical framework that aims to:

1. Foster both individual and collective critical consciousness to transform systems.

2. Tap into radical imagination

3. Radically imagine and implement healing and restorative justice strategies to move toward a liberated future

Collective Humanity

Soulcial

The pillars of humanity that represent the “soulcial” aspect are time, space, opportunity, and grace. The Briar Patch Collaboratory invites current and future visionary philosophical artivists to build community to do the collaborative work.

Work

Ripple Effects

The “work” dimensions are soulcare, healing, and transformation and require collaboration, radical imagination and experiment. The work is tilling the soil, planting seeds of resistance, healing, transformation, and liberation, and nurturing their roots and growth.

Praxis

Iterative Approach

A cyclical process between the prongs of the CTPD model that incorporates evaluation of the work, revision of the process, and then trying again, with subsequent trials informed by newfound awareness generates praxis. The aim is progress, not perfection.