My mentor Grace Lee Boggs first raised the concept of emergence with us in Detroit after reading Margaret Wheatley’s work about biomimicry and mycelium magic.17 Grace started asking us what our movements would look like if we focused on critical connections instead of critical mass. We need each other. I love the idea of shifting from “mile wide inch deep” movements to “inch wide mile deep” movements that schism the existing paradigm.18 Now, I’ve said what emergence is. Strategy is a military term simply meaning a plan of action towards a goal.19
