Can this moment provide the opportunity to create and work toward a future for our descendants that centers the emergent worldview of interdependent thriving, values, and ways?
Collective Acceleration Detroit Gathering
The Boggs Center invites you to Collective Acceleration’s regional gathering in Detroit, “Meeting the Moment”!
WHEN: 8:30am-4:00pm on April 30-May 1, 2026
WHERE: Mama Imani Humphrey Hall @ Detroit People’s Food Coop, 8324 Woodward Ave.
Sliding scale registration with discounts and scholarships available for Detroiters (see below).
Learn more here.
As the world experiences an era of unprecedented change, we are called upon to engage in purposeful action. We have the opportunity to deepen the skills, practices, and relationships needed to pivot our culture, governance, and systems towards collective thriving.
The Collective Acceleration learning community explores what is necessary to proactively move from patterns of conflict and collapse to practices of interdependence and possibility. Collective Acceleration creates the conditions for the kind of evolution that resets who we need to be.
This gathering will integrate learnings from Norma Wong (author of When No Thing Works and Who We Are Becoming Matters) and the Collective Acceleration crew with those of the Boggs Center and our local network. It will be a special opportunity to leap forward while connecting us toward mutuality, healing, and reconnection with who we are becoming.
Registration fees are on a sliding scale. A promo code is available for Detroiters in the Boggs Center’s network for a 50% reduction in fees. A limited number of scholarships are available as well. For information on discounts, scholarships, and assistance with local registration, please email mike@boggscenter.org and kim@boggscenter.org.
Please register as soon as possible as there are a limited number of seats.
The host Committee believes that this regional gathering will deepen our relationships to re-imagine, re-define and rebuild Detroit from the ground up while deepening connections between transformation, spirituality, and visionary, place-based organizing.
In love and struggle,
Detroit Host Committee
Readings from Norma Wong
Norma Wong (Norma Ryuko Kawelokū Wong Roshi) is a Native Hawaiian and Hakka life-long resident of Hawaiʻi. She is the abbot of Anko-in, an independent branch temple of Daihonzan Chozen-ji and serves practice communities in Hawai‘i, across the continental U.S., and in Toronto, Canada. She is an 86th generation Zen Master, having trained at Chozen-ji for over 40 years.
Norma has spent many years in the applied space – the direct application of indigenous and Zen ways, values and practices to living and transformational change critical to our times. Norma is part of the Collective Acceleration community of practice. Click here to support their work.
