Visionary Organizing is capable of creating genuine, lasting change because it assumes that all people are capable of transforming and growing under the right conditions. Visionary Organizing nurtures critical connections and creates transformative conditions by using the tools of the collectively transformative components of Visionary Organizing: Imagining New Possibilities, Affirming Dignity, and Experimenting WIth Transformation. 

Visionary Organizing offers a humanizing vision of what a community or organization can look like and attracts people to that vision by affirming their dignity rather than instituting an organizational change and implementing change management strategies or going into communities to educate, agitate, and organize. As a result, lasting change created by Visionary Organizing comes from experimenting with how people and groups transform rather than experimenting with how to control individuals and groups. 

I came from a very traditional hierarchical background. I worked in corporate for a really long time and I would have stayed there if I wanted stuff easy. In the corporate world you know the structure, you know your place and there is no swaying in and out of the lines. But I wasn't learning. I wasn't learning particularly about me, I wasn't going deep about me, who I am as a person, and it was draining for me and my soul. I knew that eventually I was gonna explode out of that box. I was just turning into this little tiny, confined person. And I was like, “Nope, I have to break away. I have to find something else. I have to find something that ignites my soul.”

When we learn to equally emphasize our material and non-material needs instead of prioritizing our material needs at the expense of our non-material needs, we start existing differently than human beings have for the last 500 years. When we create organizations and communities that equally emphasize material and non-material needs, we create systematic opportunities to exist differently.