Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

Definitely seek out a generative somatics (gs) course near you—as part of the training community for gs,

“We don’t practice to feel good, we practice to feel more.”

Use poetry! In our generative somatics courses, we often read poems at the beginning and end of our meditations. Some of my favorites for meditation are: “The Prison Cell,” Mahmoud Darwish; “The Journey,” Mary Oliver; “Yes, We Can Talk,” Mark Nepo; and everything from June Jordan, Adrienne Rich, Warsaw Shire, or Nayirrah Waheed.

We are living now inside the imagination of people who thought economic disparity and environmental destruction were acceptable costs for their power.

One resource is dharmaseed.org—it’s a library of talks, guided meditations.

Reclaiming the right to dream the future, strengthening the muscle to imagine together as Black people, is a revolutionary decolonizing activity.

There is such urgency in the multitude of crises we face, it can make it hard to remember that in fact it is urgency thinking (urgent constant unsustainable growth) that got us to this point, and that our potential success lies in doing deep, slow, intentional work.

Lifting people up based on personality replicates the dynamics of power and hierarchy that movements claim to be dismantling.

And in a beautiful twist, being soft in your rightness, as opposed to smashing people with your brilliance, can open others up to whatever wisdom you’ve accumulated.