I feel good, I’ve been meditating, picking up my yoga practice, biking the two miles to the beach when the sun comes out. It’s been raining for a few days and the air feels thick. A car backfires and I flinch, a lizard peeks at me from the door. Here you are, in the cycle between the past and the future, choosing to spend your miraculous time in the exploration of how humans, especially those seeking to grow liberation and justice, can learn from the world around us how to best collaborate, how to shape change.1 As I am gathering and writing this book, there is a trail of ants moving along the ceiling of my room, and the sounds of a small jungle town coming in and out of the screened open windows, birds cawing, laughter, children’s delight emerging from that, then tears. Now, another for the day and night coming. And a breath for this precious moment, which cannot be recreated. Take a breath for the day you have had so far. Wherever you are beginning this, take a deep breath and notice how you feel in your body, and how the world around you feels. It as much as I have enjoyed living, learning, and gathering it. INTRODUCTION First and foremost, thank you for opening this book. “This may only be a dream of mine, but I think it can be made real.” -Ella Baker She said, “Transform yourself to transform the world.” I dedicate this book also to the memory of Charity Hicks, who saw all the interconnected patterns as clear as day. Social change.Spells and practices for emergent strategyĮMERGENT STRATEGY Shaping Change, Changing WorldsĭEDICATION I dedicate this book to the memory of Grace Lee Boggs, who opened the door to emergence and pushed me through, who taught me to keep listening and learning and having conversations. Subject headings Mind and body therapies.
This is a resolutely materialist "spirituality" based equally on science and science fiction, a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us.". Rather than steel ourselves against such change, this book invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order to better understand and influence them as they happen. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. The world is in a continual state of flux. "Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Spells and practices for emergent strategy Nonlinear and iterative: the pace and pathways of changeĬreating more possibilities: how we move towards lifeĪssess yourself: your emergent strategy journal Interdependence and decentralization: who we are and how we share
TitleĮmergent strategy : shaping change, changing worlds / by Adrienne Maree Brown.įractals: the relationship between small and large
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