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Entering this process experientially – and for many of us, repeating it about three times – gradually activates the capacity we all have in common, enabling us to accumulate an awareness of Presence and the subsequent radiance of present moment awareness.

Michael Brown • The Presence Process - A Journey Into Present Moment Awareness

“Community offers the promise of belonging and calls for us to acknowledge our interdependence. To belong is to act as an investor, owner, and creator of this place. To be welcome, even if we are strangers. As if we came to the right place and are affirmed for that choice.”

“People will be accountable and committed to what they have a hand in creati

What if organizations weren’t machines needing parts, but living systems seeking nutrients? To recruit for a role is to fill a predefined slot—an act rooted in a mechanistic, industrial-age logic where efficiency and control dominate. The individual is a functionary, the job a fixed point, the relationship extractive and static. But to recruit for ... See more

What if instead of recruiting for roles, we recruited for contribution?

This internal requirement toward excellence which we learn from the erotic must not be misconstrued as demanding the impossible from ourselves nor from others. Such a demand incapacitates everyone in the process. For the erotic is not a question only of what we do; it is a question of how acutely and fully we can feel in the doing. Once we know the... See more

Audre Lorde • Audre Lorde reads Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power (FULL Updated)

“The world, the values of the world, are shaped by the choices each of us make. Which means my thinking, my actions, my relationships, and my life create a front line for the possibilities of the entire species. Each one of us is an individual practice ground for what the whole can or cannot do, will or will not do…. We live (and die) inside of sys

How do I find balance in the things that give me pleasure, especially the things that tend to be misunderstood and manipulated by racialized capitalism, such as drugs, sex, drink, sugar? How do we learn to harness the power and wisdom of pleasure, rather than trying to erase the body, the erotic, the connective tissue from society? How would we org

adrienne maree brown, Rodriguez, • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)

Octavia Butler on Creativity, the Generative Power of Our Obsessions, and How We Become Who We Are

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#82: Connecting dots, cultivating intention, and building a more human internet

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How do we learn to harness the power and wisdom of pleasure, rather than trying to erase the body, the erotic, the connective tissue from society?

How would we organize and move our communities if we shifted to focus on what we long for and love rather than what we are negatively reacting to?

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Michael Brown • The Presence Process - A Journey Into Present Moment Awareness

What if instead of recruiting for roles, we recruited for contribution?

Audre Lorde • Audre Lorde reads Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power (FULL Updated)

adrienne maree brown, Rodriguez, • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy Book 1)

Octavia Butler on Creativity, the Generative Power of Our Obsessions, and How We Become Who We Are

#82: Connecting dots, cultivating intention, and building a more human internet

brown, adrienne maree; Rodriguez; Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi • Pleasure Activism