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To Get to the Other Side, Episode 1 (June 28, 2020): How Starting Small is Big Thinking about getting to the other side of this pandemic can feel pretty overwhelming. Let alone, dismantling white supremacy, coming into another national election year, remembering that we’re in the midst of a climate change crisis and the daily struggles of just being human. AND we have a unique opportunity right now to create a new future! This week Erin Tripolino shares the imagination and voice of writer, sci-fi scholar, “pleasure activist” adrienne maree brown. Erin is a birth doula, a learner, and leader of antiracist communities of practice, a parent, partner, Fabric friend and fellow complicated human in progress. Together Erin and adrienne will spark your imagination about how you, too, can start small and just how big that could be. 

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Key takeaways

Your vision of the other side begins within a woven you. Where there is wholeness and connection with God and others we make small changes that help us get to and create the other side.

Why this is so: 

What we practice at the small scale sets patterns for the whole system.  

How we start:

  • Tune in

  • Let Go

  • Direct your energy

    • These three concepts are all 3-stranded

Engage in the cycle of tuning in, letting go of what you know and what’s comfortable, and being intentional with how you direct our energy. And repeat.

We do these three things in a 3-stranded way, and that allows us to transform ourselves and transform the world!

Homework Practice: What small action step can you take this week to tune in, let go or direct your energy? Talk about what you are practicing with others!

Links from the podcast

adrienne maree brown
Website

Emergent strategy
Book
brown, adrienne maree, Emergent Strategy. AK Press, 2017.

How to Survive the End of the World, Apocalypse Survival Skill #10: Lessons
Podcast by Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown

The Call
Podcast with Erica Williams Simon interviewing adrienne maree brown

 

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