Loving Corrections (Emergent Strategy Series Book 12)

This book has also allowed me to celebrate tools and inspiration offered by mentors and teachers, including Octavia Butler, Grace Lee Boggs, and most especially in this volume, Ursula Le Guin. In

” it is shorthand for relationships that are authentic, organic, healthy, present, healing, nourishing, well-boundaried, interdependent, and just.

But in this period of human history, we are aware of all kinds of toxic and dangerous relationships. So when I say “right relationship,”

This book is about inviting people to solid ground and inviting people to be in deeper integrity with their own values and the impacts of their actions, speech, and lives.

Indeed, to find the courage and will to write each of these pieces, I had to decide not to give up on us. All of us! I asked myself: What does it mean to intentionally decide to stay in relationship with humanity, to not count anyone out based on identity? What if I didn’t take it all personally? What if I saw the patterns that most offend me as in

In my somatics scholarship, I learned that feedback from others should not be received as the truth, but as a truth; this was quite liberating.2 I used to let each morsel of feedback decenter me, until I was quite lost from who I was and how I felt about things. Now, I take feedback in as something currently true to someone who loves me. I let it s

Accountability is a tricky thing. When I don’t believe someone cares about my life—much less my work—I close myself to their critiques. I don’t want to risk the total erasure of my heart, and strangers are really reckless these days. I have known days where I thought myself worse than useless, based on fickle trends of uninformed hateration. I am m

As a facilitator, I have been able, sometimes, through speaking the truth and expanding my heart to hold more possibilities, to intervene on that trend. This was a strategy that I grew into; I learned to trust myself to articulate and embody liberatory values in moments that felt impossible, and to hold containers large enough for everyone to chang

destroying each other.