#emergentstrategy

[queerpossibilities]

“Sometimes you yell out the loudest when you most need to be believe, not when you have the most faith”

adrienne maree brown, Maroons

[openlyandfreely]

When people think the same idea and move in the same direction, that’s a cult. When people think many different ideas and move in the same direction, that’s a movement.

Loretta Ross

[goddessgaya]

These thoughts are basically an extension of the following quote, which I will always come back to when weighing potential friends and partners:

"Like so much else, people have misunderstood the place of love in life, they have made it into play and pleasure because they thought that play and pleasure was more blissful than work; but there is nothing happier than work, and love, just because it is the extreme happiness, can be nothing else but work." – Rainer Maria Rilke

May you be surrounded by those willing to work for you, may you only allow those in that are. May you look to deeply understand and accept the loves in your life. May

[witcheswhimsy]

Look what came in the mail? Amazing! I am so overjoyed to have won this set of absolutely gorgeous upcycled mending yarns by @notanotherhat Please go check out her account and her etsy shop. I love her motto: "Make it an artwork not just a repair!" I already now what I'm going to start using these on. Update soon.... . . . #mendandlove #mending #mendingmatters #repairisradical #repairandcare #emergentstrategy #community #stitchersofinstagram #stitchwithjoy (hier: Berlin, Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCrWtLhKUlM/?igshid=yx1nqy4zi3jw

[sacredbodiesca]

“THERE IS SUCH A POWERFUL eloquence in silence. True genius is knowing when to say nothing, to allow the experience, the moment itself, to carry the message, to say what needs to be said. Words are less important, less effective than feeling. When you can sit in perfect silence with someone, you truly know how to communicate.” . #Repost @lyndaacallen ・・・ @Regrann from @giftedmindfulness - START FROM STILLNESS . With the dawn of a new year, there is so much coming and going: messages, reflections, resolutions, imagining, feeling, and thinking. All of it blocks the true nature of WE that exists beneath all the noise and complexity. . Let's take a moment to breathe and drop into the silence beneath the cacophony. Allow the stillness to grow, to become more spacious. Bask in it. Let it hold you. Just for a moment, let there be nowhere to go ... nothing to do ... nothing to plan.... Only this. . Then emerge from and within this silent spaciousness - into the next moment, and the next. Into the day. And into this new year. "Ready to live out loud again," as First Nations storyteller Richard Wagamese reminds us: "sore and blue and jubilant, outrageous and raucous and clamouring for more. The sound of silence. The sound of self emerging." . May this New Year emerge from the stillness that holds it all. May we find and be at ease in the eloquence of silence. . . Quotes + graphic from "Embers: One Ojibway's Meditations" by Richard Wagamese . . . . #giftedmindfulness #stillness #silence #richardwagamese #meditation #whywemeditate #equanimity #calm #neurodiversity #intenseminds #highlysensitive #giftedadults #consciousliving #grounded #collectiveconsciousness #we #onlythis #emergentstrategy #soundofsilence https://www.instagram.com/p/B61jOSMFljj/?igshid=yfwus009wa8x

[hli59-blog]

On adrienne maree brown’s “Lineage”

“Relationships are everything.”

In her excerpt of “Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds,” adrienne maree brown draws the picture of lineage on the basis of “critical connections” and the distribution of information, a concept borrowed from Margaret Wheatley. This very connection ties in one key individual mentioned in brown’s introduction to her book that highlights the importance of connections and forms of information sharing through the arts media.

Invincible, also known as “ill Weaver,” is a rapper sprung from the streets of Detroit and this concept of gathering chaos and stringing together information for movement work, an ideology shared among brown and her aforementioned peers, shaped her very being from the start. Having lived in Israel for most of her childhood and only returning to the States at the age of 7, Invincible had a later development in the English language compared to most native-born children of her age. But it was this lack of knowledge, a seemingly chaotic language that was cryptic in both tongue and appearance, that pushed forth the learning and eventual development of her skills in the English language as ill Weaver pieces together different words in rap music, forming this thoughtful connection, the overlying theme of the idea of lineage, based initially on rhyming schemes of the lyrics and eventually on their individual meanings.

The collective project labelled as Complex Movements, inspired by the works of other thinkers such as Grace Lee Boggs who also plays a prominent role in brown’s shaping of her ideologies, calls forth social justice and, as Invincible puts it, “radical imagination,” through complex story-telling and interactions. As a forefront proponent of this project, Invincible incorporates her interpretation of a recent exhibition called Beware of the Dandelions during one of its conventions stating, “It takes a lot of relationship building, a lot of conversations, but it also takes spaces like this pod. Even if people aren’t willing to have a conversation with each other they might be willing to be transported to an otherworldly, science fiction parallel universe in a pod-like spaceship.” 

A connection through simply conversations may seem ideal but a connection through a medium that challenges the mind of the parties involved, the science fiction channeling of a “parallel universe,” can bring meaning to the idea of Margaret Wheatley’s “critical connections” that is so vital to painting the image of lineage. And this encouragement to connect during an era of youths so knitted to entertainment and interactive technologies and media is perfectly exemplified throughout Beware of the Dandelions’ space filled with these mystical video-mapped screens that takes the form of a futuristic polyhedron pod. The strategy behind the exhibition itself carries the meaning of relationship and the connections made between the several artists the likes of Sage Crump, LO5, and of our focus, Invincible as they work in collaboration with one another, sharing information and organizing them into a movement work, to ultimately bring forth this opportunity for their community to explore relationships and share these connections through visual arts and sound. 

[lqb2poetry]

poetry story from ruth stone (via elizabeth gilbert’s ted talk) about how to catch a poem as it thunders across the landscape 

(How to Survive the End of the World)

[kitchentablelit]

Birthday #shelfie for Lorraine Hansberry! . . . #ispywithmylittleeye some super-dope friends on the shelf, too! . . . #blackplaywrights #blackwriters #womenwriters #kitchentablelit #blackwomenwriters #community #blackart #blackhistory #poetry #blackpoets #blackpoetry #blackartists #younggiftedandblack #patient #emergentstrategy #liberatedthreads #PraiseTheLorde #crunkfeminist #buttatofly #aquabeats #bookstagram #booksonbooksonbooks #booklover #read #buyblackbooks

[meccacon]

TODAY!!! 6pm EST/ 3pm PST!! We are absolutely elated to be having author, activist, scholar, and doula, @adriennemareebrown, joining us once again for #MECCAcon! #adriennemareebrown is the author of #PleasureActivism: The Politics of Feeling Good, #EmergentStrategy : Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of #OctaviasBrood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements. She is the co-host of the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia’s Parables podcasts. FRIDAY, October 30th 6pm EST/ 3pm PST watch HERE:: bit.ly/meccaconyt https://www.instagram.com/p/CG-j-14M4FO/?igshid=e60zva0uvgut

[foreverthesoniag]

🌿Waited for the right time to read this book... and it found me in Oakland. Reading #EmergentStrategy by @adriennemareebrown affirms and uplifts the work I am already doing and the work @culturestrike has been doing. This book makes me feel less isolated and grounded on the fact that so many beautiful folks are out there centered on similar values, and beautiful visions and strategy!! I recommend this book to all #qtpoc #femme #migrant #undocumented artists and cultural workers out there !! [ Shout outs to @favianna1 for giving me the book when I found it in her studio and without hesitation she said “take it” ] #writersofcolor

[kingsmanconsultants]

Space saving idea. Letter boxes next to the fire exit. . . . #letterbox #letterboxes #fireexitdoor #fireexitstairs #fireexit . #exit #emergentstrategy #spacesavingideas #spacesaver #spacesaving . . #spacesavingtips #mergewalls #buildinwalls #buildingdesigns #buildingintheworld . #sydneybuilding #townhallsydney . . . . . . #renovation. #Design. #renovating #reno #renovatingSydney . #renovationconsultant #kingsmanconsultants @kingsmanconsultants #旅行好きな人と繋がりたい (at Sydney, Australia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CCNq9Y0FVov/?igshid=cgduqa2jwdmi

[esinthepod]

A long awaited gift to ourselves. Kendal and I are finally reading #emergentstrategy by @adriennemareebrown Only in the introduction, but she already has me considering using love, nature and imagination in ways I never even thought of. Looking forward to the futures discussions and playing with creativity.

[rachaelrice]

Close-up of the fifteen #EmergentStrategy-themed #pomegranate #SurpriseBalls that went out in my #yuletide #patreonrewards art medicine boxes. I’d love to send one (maybe octopus instead of pomegranate?!) to @adriennemareebrown if anyone has a mailing address! https://www.instagram.com/p/B6vzOgNgbon/?igshid=p1vf4qf74ouv

[joseaesquea]

Opening :: During my Jesus year I was invited to create a piece, a new work, that embodies the principles of communion, the principles of discipleship, the principles of human evolution/expansion and the embodiment of love. I became a student of #OctiviaButler and @adriennemareebrown as she gave us a road map through her book #EmergentStrategy. I was asked in this year to generate an offering that crystallize my learning on leadership, spirit, grace and compassion. Through this work I have been given the opportunity to expand my capacity to be more human and call into being a radically imaginative next 33 years around the sun. May the universe continue to show up and give me projects, tasks and assignments to unleash my soul on this planet and may I lean into those opportunities with the courage that is housed inside the depths of my ancestor’s grace. It is a humbling act to have resources, it is privileged to be able to share those resources that are poured in. I hope to never lose sight of that. Thanks @sade1111 for saying yes to @natblacktheatre coming on board for this project! Thank to my Alma mater @nyutisch ETW for the invite. ———————————————————————— #BlackJoy #Sacred #MyJob #MyJourney #NewBeginnings #MyJoy #MyGlory #Tuesday #NYU #NewPlay #ArtHeals #BlackBoyMagic #Alchemist #Light #Devised #Adventure #Directing. Reposted from @jaymc86 https://www.instagram.com/p/B5DKYu_JFW-/?igshid=19fm8u1ivs2m6

[klovesyou]

🥰life scenes.🥰 • • something is shifting inside me. it's really exciting. but in a calm way, a blissful surrender, if you will... • • i'm finding so much joy + happiness in quiet moments of gratitude. the crisp fall air creeping in...the cloudy surrender to a new season. tiny affirmations + mindful prayers gracing my lips as teeny whispers... • • i adore this book. emergent strategy by @adriennemareebrown simply has me awestruck. i can't wait to put into practice so many of her ideas. i'm so grateful i found her words BEFORE i've begun the writing process for my dissertation. she's a scholar and true divine being from detroit. midwest practicalities almost always resonate and inspire my intellectual and integrational mindsets. i truly feel blessed to have her consciousness to help feed and guide my ideations.🙏🏼 • • happy saturday, all...and i almost look crossed eyed in that last photo. 🤷🏻‍♀️ i enjoy the portrait mode on this pixel whatever it is...forgive me. 🙏🏼🥰 #paradigmshift #adriennemareebrown #emergentstrategy #trustthepeople #dissertation #dissertationlife #spiritualactivists #spiritualactivism #riseinlove #psychedelicintegration #surrender #knowledgeisarhizome #universalconnection #higherconsciousness #alllearningissociallymediated #growthisnonlinear #trusttheprocess #feminineenergy #receptivity https://www.instagram.com/p/B2IENuChHxx/?igshid=1gylm65dehynx