Relational Disobedience Part 7: The Trouble with Hope
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Relational Disobedience Part 7: The Trouble with Hope

By Mike Chitty - Realise Development

Too often, hope becomes a strategy to keep us compliant. This chapter reclaims hope as a moral orientation: a reason to keep showing up.

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  • 1 hour 30 minutes
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We are told to “stay hopeful.” But what kind of hope have we been offered?

The hope of outcomes: work hard and the system will reward you.

The hope of politics: stay patient and change will come.

The hope of institutions: keep faith and the next plan will deliver.

This hope is not sustaining. It numbs, postpones, pacifies.

But another kind of hope is possible. A hope that:

  • Plants without proof of growth.
  • Tends relationships without asking for outcomes.
  • Acts faithfully, even when results are uncertain.

In this workshop:

Story - The Garden of Uncertain Light: A parable of a garden where no promise is given, but tending continues anyway.

Essay - The Trouble with Hope: Rethinking hope as discipline, fidelity, and orientation rather than strategy.

Study Guide - The Garden of Uncertain Light: Practices for fallow time, planting without proof, tending neglected places, and garden meditation.

What you’ll gain

  • A deeper, truer sense of hope that survives disillusionment.
  • Practices for faithfulness in uncertainty.
  • Courage to act without waiting for guarantees.
  • A space to explore grief and fidelity with others.

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Mike Chitty - Realise Development

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Dec 11 · 7:00 AM PST