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Ultimately, pleasure activism is us learning to make justice and liberation the most pleasurable experiences we can have on this planet.
adrienne maree brown, Rodriguez, • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)
I’ve come to think of communicating about sex and love in terms of a “sleepy hedgehog” model of emotion management. It goes like this: Think of your difficult feelings about sex as sleepy hedgehogs that you discover in inconvenient places around your home. If you find a sleepy hedgehog in the chair you were about to sit in, you should: Find Out the
... See moreEmily Nagoski Ph.D. • Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life
Ray Bradbury talks about the importance of not thinking when he is writing. He says that when he arrives at the typewriter, his task is to be living. To let his soul pour out onto the page. To quiet the mind and let his body do the talking. Then, he checks his work afterwards using the mind as a ‘corrective force’ to refine. But he uses the body to... See more
A facilitator’s role is not to make everyone comfortable. Our job is to help people through their discomfort while using all of the knowledge and feelings in the room to make meaning and take actions informed by the learning.
adrienne maree brown • Holding Change the Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation
Facilitation as Experiments in Culture Creation by Sage Crump
People don’t want you to be perfect.
What they want is to feel connected to you.
What they want is to feel connected to you.
Joe Hudson • Tweet
It could be said that a great fund-raiser is a broker for the sacred energy of money, helping people use the money that flows through their lives in the most useful way that is consistent with their aspirations and hopes for humanity.
Lynne Twist • The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life
all couples struggle with one central task: how to negotiate the issue of closeness and distance
Erin Belanger-Freeh • Renewing Your Relationship
The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible. —Toni Cade Bambara
adrienne maree brown, Rodriguez, • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)
When you’re working with a great coach, you’re working with someone who has an extraordinary ability to listen, ask questions, clarify and give feedback.