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Dandelions don’t know whether they are a weed or a brilliance. But each seed can create a field of dandelions. We are invited to be that prolific. And to return fertility to the soil around us.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy
In the longest term vision I can see, when we, made of the same miraculous material and temporary limitations as the systems we are born into, inevitably disagree, or cause harm, we will respond not with rejection, exile, or public shaming, but with clear naming of harm; education around intention, impact, and pattern breaking; satisfying apologies
... See moreadrienne maree brown • We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series Book 3)
In a fractal conception, I am a cell-sized unit of the human organism, and I have to use my life to leverage a shift in the system by how I am, as much as with the things I do. This means actually being in my life, and it means bringing my values into my daily decision making. Each day should be lived on purpose.
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
What if instead of recruiting for roles, we recruited for contribution?
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
... See moreadrienne maree brown • Loving Corrections (Emergent Strategy Series Book 12)
We won’t end the systemic patterns of harm by isolating and picking off individuals, just as we can’t limit the communicative power of mycelium by plucking a single mushroom from the dirt. We need to flood the entire system with life-affirming principles and practices, to clear the channels between us of the toxicity of supremacy, to heal from the
... See moreadrienne maree brown • We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice (Emergent Strategy Series Book 3)
[Nora Bateson has] found that the questions, “Who can I be when I am with you, and Who can you be when you are with me?” invite a whole new world of story into the way we can be together. In contrast, “Who am I? Who are you?” Or “How do I become a better person?” reconfirm the isolation of the individual, thus obscuring the ecology of the many ways
... See moreNotes from “Intersecting Worlds: The One We’ve Got, The One We’re Building, The Ones We Imagine”
