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Many of us have been socialized to understand that constant growth, violent competition, and critical mass are the ways to create change. But emergence shows us that adaptation and evolution depend more upon critical, deep, and authentic connections, a thread that can be tugged for support and resilience. The quality of connection between the nodes

adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

Emergent Strategy – adrienne maree brown

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In this place of transition - a place that feels disorienting, confusing, messy - we need to be learning from each other, plural in the possibilities we generate, and willing to let go of those mental frameworks that are no longer serving us well.

Sophia Parker • Emerging Futures at JRF - Two Years In, the Story So Far

For once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of.

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

The two lines that resonate with my research are: “Instead of adapting to goodness, we celebrate goodness.” “We become greater participants in our lives as opposed to spectators.”

Brené Brown • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

How do we create and proliferate a compelling vision of economies and ecologies that center humans and the natural world over the accumulation of material?

adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

In an interview with Roxana Fabius, Patricia M. Hernandez, and me for The Scalability Project (2020), adrienne maree brown described relationships like a spiderweb—diaphanous yet strong, thick yet porous. “A web allows things to fall through, like a sieve,” she said. “Some things are not meant to be caught.” I like to think of these webs as citatio... See more

shiftspace.pub • On Gathering

This can’t be the purpose of our species, to constantly identify each other as “other,” build walls between us, and engage in both formal and informal wars against each other’s bodies.

adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy

It isn’t that we never need sharp, directed, focused and even single-issue moments—we absolutely do. It’s just that we live in a system that thrives when conditions are abundant and diverse, in a universe that holds contradictions and multitudes, and we often reject that chaotic fertile reality too soon, as if we can’t tolerate the scale of our own