Guest adrienne maree brown discusses rooting activism in love, embracing freedom, and asking 'What would love have me do?' The importance of personal transformations, utilizing suffering for healing, and slowing down for creative impact are also explored. Emphasis on community support and seeking help for a fulfilling life.
Root movements in love to drive actions for freedom.
Embrace emergent strategies and intentional adaptation for positive change.
Deep dives
Adrienne Marie-Brown's Focus on Nurturing Ideas for Change
Adrienne Marie-Brown, a writer and activist, discusses how she aims to cultivate nurturing ideas that promote change and challenge dominant social structures. She emphasizes the importance of practicing together to reshape societal norms away from dominance and capitalism. By drawing from 25 years of social justice work, Brown stresses the significance of small changes, relationships, and collective adaptation to move towards a life-affirming future.
Embracing Practice and Iterative Principles for Change
Brown advocates for an 'emergent strategy' that aligns with change in positive relationships inspired by the natural world. She emphasizes the power of small actions and collaborations leading to significant transformations. By observing ecosystems, she highlights the need for intentional adaptation and attention to foster life-affirming practices amidst societal challenges.
Challenging Individual and Collective Responses to Overwhelming Times
In the face of overwhelming global issues, Brown encourages individuals to embrace their emotions collectively and reach out for support. She emphasizes the importance of deepening honesty in existing relationships, fostering new connections within communities that share similar concerns, and taking seriously the impact individuals can have over the span of their lives.
Transformation Through Depths of Creativity and Collaboration
Brown stresses the need for depth in creative work and the impact it can have on individuals and communities. She encourages artists and activists to engage in honest self-exploration, undertake collaborative efforts, and acknowledge the interconnectedness of global struggles. By prioritizing depth over surface-level engagement, lasting transformation and collective action can be achieved.
Do you love yourself and the world enough to risk making moves for other people’s freedom? For guest adrienne maree brown, any such movement has to be rooted in love. And that’s her practice: finding what and where we love, placing it deliberately in the centre of our lives, and then asking: what action wants to arise naturally from that? Not based on other people’s ideas of what’s right, but from our own natural capacities and passions and connections. “What would love have me do today? What would love have me risk today?” “What would love have me be today?”