The Transformative Power of Music

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In this chapter, the speakers discuss how music can be a sacred act and a means of processing negative emotions into something beautiful and hopeful. They also highlight the power of music in resisting and surviving through hard times, emphasizing the importance of small actions and the transformative potential of sports.

Are you capable of being satisfied? Today, adrienne maree brown helps us uncover:

How to find beauty and connection in the everyday;
How to stop wasting your time on things that don’t feel good;
Why the greatest risk of life is also where its preciousness comes from;
How, through the discipline of pleasure, we can ALL be satisfied.

About adrienne:

adrienne maree brown is a pleasure activist, writer, and radical imaginist who grows healing ideas in public through writing, music, and podcasts. adrienne has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Transformative Justice as ideas, frameworks, networks and practices for transformation. adrienne’s work is informed by 25 years of social and environmental justice facilitation primarily supporting Black liberation. adrienne is the author/editor of several published texts including Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds; Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good; Grievers; and Maroons. After a multinational childhood, adrienne lived in New York, Oakland, and Detroit before landing in her current home of Durham, NC.

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