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DEI programs are being shut down left and right, and the toxic culture of white supremacy is becoming more rampant. This has led to more and more people making white privilege a norm in their own workplace cultures. Davey Shlasko, founder of Think Again Training, leads the revolution in shaping inclusive, diverse, and anti-racist leaders. Joining Corinna Bellizzi, he shares how to build the right leadership that addresses bias, discrimination, perfectionism, and an unfair focus on hierarchy. He also discusses how the worsening perspectives on DEI adversely impact the state of economy, minimum wage, business hiring practices, and a person's choice of pronouns.About Guest:Davey is the founder and director of Think Again Training & Consulting, a collaborative consulting practice that supports organizations to integrate equity, inclusion and social justice into their long-term planning and everyday practices. Davey co-created the Antiracist Development Group for white managers, an 8-week cohort program based in frameworks of intersectional social justice and challenging white supremacy culture that prepares white people in leadership roles to bring antiracist practices into their management, supervision, planning and everything about their leadership.Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/90517341Guest Website: https://www.thinkagaintraining.com/blog/whyantiracismskillsGuest Social: https://www.instagram.com/thinkagain_tc/https://www.youtube.com/@shlaskohttps://www.facebook.com/thinkagaintrainingAnti-Racist / DEI Reading ListOn Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century by Timothy SnyderHow We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorEmergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree BrownPleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree BrownHow to be an Anti-racist by Ibram X KendiHow to be a (Young) Anti-racist by Ibram X Kendi Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. SaadWhite Supremacy Culture by Tema Okun and Kenneth JonesThe Anthropology of White Supremacy: A Reader Edited by Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Jemima Pierre, Junaid Rana The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee TaylorThe Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jorene Freeman, 1972Beware the Tyranny of StructurelessnessAnti-Racist / DEI Podcasts to Listen To:Code Switch 1619 Octavia's Parables Seeing White Mother Country Radicals Show Notes: Final audioJOIN OUR CIRCLE. BUILD A GREENER FUTURE:

President Trump has just started his second term, and a lot of things have been changing – but sadly, not for the better. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is one of the most adversely impacted subjects, making discrimination, stereotyping, and inequality much more rampant. In this episode, Corinna Bellizzi is joined by DEI coach and consultant Rachel Siegel to discuss how to overcome the United States' current crisis with systemic racism, classicism, and authoritarianism. They explain why DEI should never lead to social division but bring people together in peace and harmony. Rachel also explains how to be more critical when consuming different kinds of media and how to cultivate the right mindset to stop yourself from following leaders blindly.About Guest:Rachel Siegel is a white, queer, Jewish mother, artist, organizer, and educator on Abenaki land in Vermont. She was ED of Peace & Justice Center and a City Councilor before founding Toward Liberation. She cofounded Vermont Access to Reproductive Freedom and ONE Mutual Aid, serves on the grant committee for Haymarket People's Fund, and volunteers for Center City Little League. Rachel is an intersectional feminist. She recognizes her eating disorder healing as part of resisting patriarchy, racism and capitalism. She is committed to body liberation. Hiking, dancing, and being with friends give Rachel joy. She is a recovering alcoholic and practices spirituality through many modalities. Rachel's political education includes Catalyst Collective, White Awake, self-study, and People's Institute for Survival and Beyond.Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-siegel-829b38a0/ Guest Website: https://www.towardliberation.net/ Guest Social: https://www.facebook.com/rachel.f.siegel/ https://www.instagram.com/rachel.f.siegel/ Anti-Racist / DEI Reading ListOn Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From The Twentieth Century by Timothy SnyderHow We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, edited by Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorEmergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree BrownPleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree BrownHow to be an Anti-racist by Ibram X KendiHow to be a (Young) Anti-racist by Ibram X Kendi Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. SaadWhite Supremacy Culture by Tema Okun and Kenneth JonesThe Anthropology of White Supremacy: A Reader Edited by Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Jemima Pierre, Junaid Rana The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee TaylorAnti-Racist / DEI Podcasts to Listen To:Code Switch 1619 Octavia's Parables Seeing White Mother Country Radicals Show Notes: Final audioIntroducing Intersectional Feminist Rachel Siegel - 03:27How Did We Get To Dehumanizing People - 12:59The Caste System Of The United States - 16:54Not Obeying In Advance And Improving Media Consumption - 23:08Black Feminism, Emergent Strategy, And Pleasure Activism - 27:35Lessons From A Starling's Murmuration - 33:53How To Be An Antiracist - 36:36White Supremacy Culture And The Body is Not an Apology - 39:35Solving Current Issues Through Multigenerational Alliances - 44:41All About Think Again And Toward Liberation - 48:02Episode Wrap-up And Closing Words - 54:57JOIN OUR CIRCLE. BUILD A GREENER FUTURE:

In this episode, Rose reads a portion of Adrienne Maree Brown's book Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. You can check out our growing list of songs on our podcast playlist at: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4RVqhqSInWEDLzY2PWncEN?si=aAcBbnFNSoy3uOhVO0gHwQ&pi=u-YCFXXYJVSGKf (Soundtrack of Black Aliveness) To get some of the books that we mention on the podcast, please check out our growing collection here: https://bookshop.org/lists/black-and-alive-a-black-coffee-theology-reading-list? https://bookshop.org/lists/black-and-alive-a-black-coffee-theology-reading-list? Please check Rose's substack out at https://agentlelanding.substack.com/ If you're a fan of the show, please like, subscribe, and leave a positive review on your podcast app.  You can also support financially on Patreon at: patreon.com/threeblackmen Finally, you can check out Robert's writing at: https://musingsfromabrokenheart.substack.

Sahibzada Mayed is a creative alchemist who uses design and storytelling to cultivate joy and imagination as tools of liberation. Mayed serves as the Co-Lead for Strategy and Research at Pause and Effect, a liberation-focused imagination and design collective based on Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Beyond that, Mayed leads a small-scale startup, Naranji, that focuses on gender justice and decolonization in fashion. Today, we talk about decolonizing design and creative liberation. Listen to learn about: >> The impact of colonialism and power structures on design >> The need for critical social analysis in design >> Designing for Joy >> Decolonizing design >> The importance of locality and place in design >> Rethinking how we think about and experience systems Our Guest Sahibzada Mayed is a creative alchemist who uses design and storytelling to cultivate joy and imagination as tools of liberation. Mayed serves as the Co-Lead for Strategy and Research at Pause and Effect, a liberation-focused imagination and design collective based on Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Beyond that, Mayed leads a small-scale startup, Naranji, that focuses on gender justice and decolonization in fashion. Their work has been prominently featured during New York and Chicago Fashion Weeks and highlighted in several publications across the United States, Pakistan, Thailand, and Japan. Mayed's identity is shaped by their background as a Muslim immigrant of Persian, Afghan, Indian, and Pakistani heritage, as well as lived experiences of queerness, disability, and neurodivergence. Show Highlights [02:15] Mayed's unconventional journey into design, combining engineering and social sciences. [04:05] How this background has helped Mayed in their work. [06:01] Mayed's current work focus is on understanding the impact of colonialism in design. [07:36] The challenge of collaborating when existing power differentials have yet to be addressed. [09:28] What is power? [12:04] Mayed shares thoughts on designing when you're close to, or a part of, the community you're designing for, versus being outside that community. [13:53] Dawan talks about how perfection is the enemy of change. [15:57] The fear and discomfort of taking responsibility for causing harm. [16:28] Good intentions do not absolve responsibility. [17:30] Building accountability into what you design. [19:19] Ethics in design and looking for the potential of harm while designing. [22:45] There is an assumption of neutrality and objectivity around design. [24:47] Designing to prevent harm, and also designing for joy and compassion and care. [29:45] Decolonizing design. [35:12] Grounding design in the context of the place and space where it will live. [38:47] Shifting the way we think about design, to move beyond the human. [40:44] Rethinking how we think about and experience systems. [45:13] Last thoughts from Mayed about doing the work and the responsibility that comes with that. LinksMayed on LinkedInMayed on MediumMayed's websitepause + effect - 5-week intensive, Reimagining ResearchInterview: Fashion Designer Sahibzada MayedCultivating Design Ecologies of Care, Community, and CollaborationI Don't Want A Seat at Your Table w/ sahibzada mayedDecentralizing Power through Design with Sahibzada Mayed and Lauren Lin Book Recommendations Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, by Adrienne Maree Brown DT 101 EpisodesDesign Social Change with Lesley-Ann Noel — DT101 E128 Radical Participatory Design + Relationships in Complex Systems Inclusive Design with Victor Udoewa — DT101 E127 Design Ethics with George Aye — DT101 E136

Sahibzada Mayed is a creative alchemist who uses design and storytelling to cultivate joy and imagination as tools of liberation. Mayed serves as the Co-Lead for Strategy and Research at Pause and Effect, a liberation-focused imagination and design collective based on Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Beyond that, Mayed leads a small-scale startup, Naranji, that focuses on gender justice and decolonization in fashion. Today, we talk about decolonizing design and creative liberation. Listen to learn about: >> The impact of colonialism and power structures on design >> The need for critical social analysis in design >> Designing for Joy >> Decolonizing design >> The importance of locality and place in design >> Rethinking how we think about and experience systems Our Guest Sahibzada Mayed is a creative alchemist who uses design and storytelling to cultivate joy and imagination as tools of liberation. Mayed serves as the Co-Lead for Strategy and Research at Pause and Effect, a liberation-focused imagination and design collective based on Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Beyond that, Mayed leads a small-scale startup, Naranji, that focuses on gender justice and decolonization in fashion. Their work has been prominently featured during New York and Chicago Fashion Weeks and highlighted in several publications across the United States, Pakistan, Thailand, and Japan. Mayed's identity is shaped by their background as a Muslim immigrant of Persian, Afghan, Indian, and Pakistani heritage, as well as lived experiences of queerness, disability, and neurodivergence. Show Highlights [02:15] Mayed's unconventional journey into design, combining engineering and social sciences. [04:05] How this background has helped Mayed in their work. [06:01] Mayed's current work focus is on understanding the impact of colonialism in design. [07:36] The challenge of collaborating when existing power differentials have yet to be addressed. [09:28] What is power? [12:04] Mayed shares thoughts on designing when you're close to, or a part of, the community you're designing for, versus being outside that community. [13:53] Dawan talks about how perfection is the enemy of change. [15:57] The fear and discomfort of taking responsibility for causing harm. [16:28] Good intentions do not absolve responsibility. [17:30] Building accountability into what you design. [19:19] Ethics in design and looking for the potential of harm while designing. [22:45] There is an assumption of neutrality and objectivity around design. [24:47] Designing to prevent harm, and also designing for joy and compassion and care. [29:45] Decolonizing design. [35:12] Grounding design in the context of the place and space where it will live. [38:47] Shifting the way we think about design, to move beyond the human. [40:44] Rethinking how we think about and experience systems. [45:13] Last thoughts from Mayed about doing the work and the responsibility that comes with that. LinksMayed on LinkedInMayed on MediumMayed's websitepause + effect - 5-week intensive, Reimagining ResearchInterview: Fashion Designer Sahibzada MayedCultivating Design Ecologies of Care, Community, and CollaborationI Don't Want A Seat at Your Table w/ sahibzada mayedDecentralizing Power through Design with Sahibzada Mayed and Lauren Lin Book Recommendations Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, by Adrienne Maree Brown DT 101 EpisodesDesign Social Change with Lesley-Ann Noel — DT101 E128 Radical Participatory Design + Relationships in Complex Systems Inclusive Design with Victor Udoewa — DT101 E127 Design Ethics with George Aye — DT101 E136

354. How to Make Loving Corrections with adrienne maree brown adrienne marie brown returns to discuss how to make loving corrections with the people in your life.  Discover:  -The three essential human needs—and what happens when we don't get them -How to break free from the need to be “good” and find something better -What defines a loving correction (and what doesn't) -Why acting as a protector for others reveals deep truths about your own healing journey On the guest: adrienne maree brown grows healing ideas in public through writing, music, and podcasts, nurturing Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Transformative Justice. adrienne's work is informed by 25 years of social and environmental justice facilitation primarily supporting Black liberation. adrienne is the author/editor of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds; Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good; Grievers; and Maroons. adrienne's latest book Loving Corrections is available now. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's really important to have some sort of horizon to grasp onto and work towards and for me that is thinking about what possible worlds might exist and how can I spend my time contributing to making those worlds possible. Of course that is a huge question and it changes a lot day to day. I have been thinking a lot lately about how art and scholarship around the environment can teach and inform one another in terms of practice and action.I know Emma Bugg from two art and environment research activities in Canada : Sustainability and the Arts (SATA), a SSHRC funded project led by Dr. Tarah Wright, professor at the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences, at Dalhousie University that identifies Canadian and global scholars, artists and practitioners working in sustainability, including myself as one of their advisors. The other project is the Living Climate-Impact Framework for the Arts project, a qualitative arts framework, designed as part of the Research in Residence: Arts Civic Impact Initiative by Mass Culture, led by Robin Sokoloski, produced in collaboration with CreativePEI, that provides indicators to measure arts impact in environmental sustainability and fosters transformation towards climate action and adaptation by using forward-thinking to create a useful arts impact assessment framework.Some interesting research here on how the arts can make a difference and the role of the arts in the ecological crisis.  In other words, Emma Bugg, who is currently an interdisciplinary PhD student at the Faculty of Graduate Studies at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia is an arts is a climate research nerd or rather an arts and climate hero. Hard working and with an endless curiosity.  Before her studies at Dalhousie, worked at the Ottawa based non-profit Evidence for Democracy as the Communications and Campaigns Manager.Our conversation explored the dilemma of the environmental crisis as a cultural crisis, and how if we want a sustainable future - and we do want and need that - or any kind of future for that matter, we need to culturally transform our entire society.Scholars like Emma are doing their part and increasingly contributing to the emerging field of sustainability and the arts; however, this growing body of scholarship and knowledge, has not yet effectively tackled the specific role of arts organizations and their potentialities for impact and this is one of Emma's passions. I got caught up myself in Emma's enthusiasm for data, research and impact measurement during our conversation, when committed, quite impulsively, to apply the Living Climate-Impact Framework for the Arts on this podcast as a test case which I will share when I'm done on my ‘a calm presence' Substack. Kudos to Emma and Robin and their colleagues for this tool. I invite others to try the framework. It's a lot of fun to go through the Who, How, What format.Emma recommends the following reading materials:Emergent Strategy, Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brownLillian's Place by Alexis Bulman (cedar shed in Stratford PEI)Note: also of interest to this episode is this paper by Emma Bugg, Tarah Wright and Melanie Zurba: Creativity in climate adaptation: Conceptualizing the role of arts organizations and https://cgscholar.com/bookstore/works/understanding-impact-in-sustainability-and-the-arts *END NOTES FOR ALL EPISODESI've been producing the conscient podcast as a learning and unlearning journey since May 2020 on un-ceded Anishinaabe Algonquin territory (Ottawa). It's my way to give back and be present.In parallel with the production of the conscient podcast and it's francophone counterpart, balado conscient, I publish a Substack newsletter called ‘a calm presence' which are 'short, practical essays about collapse acceptance, adaptation, response and art'. To subscribe (free of charge) see https://acalmpresence.substack.com. You'll also find a podcast version of each a calm presence posting on Substack or one your favorite podcast player.Also, please note that a complete transcript of conscient podcast and balado conscient episodes from season 1 to 4 is available on the web version of this site (not available on podcast apps) here: https://conscient-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes.Your feedback is always welcome at claude@conscient.ca and/or on conscient podcast social media: Facebook, X, Instagram or Linkedin. I am grateful and accountable to the earth and the human labour that provided me with the privilege of producing this podcast, including the toxic materials and extractive processes behind the computers, recorders, transportation systems and infrastructure that made this production possible. Claude SchryerLatest update on July 20, 2024

Do you ever feel the need to “gather” someone online? Or maybe someone in your life? It's perfectly human! But maybe we should think twice about how we go about making that correction - and how we can make it in the most loving way possible. To help you and us do that, we've got adrienne maree brown back on the pod! Following her 2020 visit to Getting Curious, adrienne is here to talk all about the ideas in her new book, Loving Corrections, and help all of us give and receive feedback better! adrienne maree brown grows healing ideas in public. Through her writing, which includes short- and long-form fiction, nonfiction, spells, tarot decks and poetry; her music, which includes songwriting, singing and immersive musical rituals; and her podcasts, including How to Survive the End of the World, Octavia's Parables and The Emergent Strategy Podcast, adrienne has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Transformative Justice as ideas, frameworks, networks and practices for transformation. Her work is informed by 25 years of social and environmental justice facilitation primarily supporting Black liberation, her path of teaching somatics, her love of Octavia E Butler and visionary fiction, and her work as a doula. She is the author/editor of several published texts including “Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change,” “Changing Worlds” (2017), “Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good” (2019), and “Grievers” (2021) and “Maroons” (2023), the first two novellas of her speculative fiction trilogy. Her newest book, “Loving Corrections,” will be published in August 2024. After a multinational childhood, adrienne lived in New York, Oakland and Detroit before landing in her current home of Durham, NC. She has been featured in all types of media, from “We Can Do Hard Things” with Glennon Doyle and “On Being with Krista Tippett,” to New York Magazine's The Cut, atmos, Vulture, Shondaland, Lifekit, BBC, Bon Apétit, and many others -- including of course on our show back in 2020. Her new book: Loving Corrections, is out now. Related materials:  "The Four Parts of Accountability & How To Give A Genuine Apology" by Mia Mingus You can follow adrienne on Instagram @adriennemareebrown and on adrienne's website adriennemareebrown.net. Follow us on Instagram @CuriousWithJVN to join the conversation. Jonathan is on Instagram @JVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Find books from Getting Curious guests at bookshop.org/shop/curiouswithjvn. Our senior producer is Chris McClure. Our editor & engineer is Nathanael McClure. Production support from Julie Carillo, Anne Currie, and Chad Hall. Our theme music is “Freak” by QUIÑ; for more, head to TheQuinCat.com& Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with adrienne maree brown which originally aired in April 2019.adrienne maree brown begins this week's episode by asking, “If we were not ashamed of our pleasure, what would become possible? If we started to understand that pleasure is something that everyone should have access to, what would become possible?”This week on For The Wild, we are exploring how to embody pleasure in its many forms with adrienne maree brown. Drawing upon Audre Lorde's seminal publication, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power, adrienne maree brown's latest book, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, reiterates how once we truly know the pleasure of being alive, suffering becomes unimaginable. Above all, pleasure resides in our body, but many of us seem to forget this through lifetimes of social conditioning, performative identities, and the multitude of ways in which capitalism and patriarchy have filtered love and desire through the lens of ownership. Yet, whether we are cognizant of this or not, our pleasure and our liberation remain inextricably bound together.adrienne maree brown is the author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good and co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. adrienne facilitates social justice and Black liberation through the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, the Detroit Narrative Agency and is part of Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity. She and her sister, Autumn Brown, co-host the How to Survive the End of the World podcast. Music by The Boom Booms, JB the First Lady, and Small Town.Support the show

Guest Malvika Sharan Panelist Richard Littauer Show Notes In this episode, host Richard has a conversation with guest Malvika Sharan, a senior research associate and open source community manager at The Turing Way. Malvika gives fascinating insights into the journey and rationale behind The Turing Way, which is a data science guide and community collaborative project, seeking to make data science more open, accessible, and inclusive. The Turing Way is also much more than its curated guides, serving as a space for enthusiasts to exchange ideas and contribute to the project. Richard and Malvika dig deep into the importance of effective recognition for contributions, Malvika's commitment to financial compensation within the constraints of the system, along with the persistence of volunteerism in open source work. Amid her busy year, Malvika is preparing for this chapter of The Turing Way's journey to enter an exciting 2024 and 2025 phase as they look to engage more directly with organizations that haven't yet adopted open source collaborative practices advocated by The Turing Way. Press download not to hear more! [00:01:17] Malvika explains The Turing Way as a collaborative book project on open science and data science, founded by Kristie Whittaker in 2019, which has evolved significantly with her as co-lead. Also, The Turing Way started as a book on GitHub aimed at making data science more open. [00:04:09] Richard clarifies that The Turing Way is a Jupyter book, and Malvika discusses the evolution of The Turing Way and its role in advocating for open source practices within data science projects. [00:05:55] Richard asks why there isn't a specific guide for open source, and Malvika explains that The Turing Way integrates open source principles throughout and addresses concerns about open practices in sensitive areas. [00:08:07] Richard inquires about the name, The Turing Way, an Malvika recounts its origin relating to the Alan Turing Institute and the idea of reproducibility. [00:09:26] The discussion turns to community involvement in The Turing Way. Malvika talks about different types of community events and how individuals become part of the community through collaboration and self-identification. [00:12:15] The concept of “emergent strategy” from the book by Adrienne Maree Brown is explained as an influence on the community aspect of The Turing Way. [00:13:13] Richard inquires about the sustainability of The Turing Way as an open source project and its funding and staff structure. Malvika explains that it's funded by the Alan Turing Institute and discusses the Institute's support and staff dedicated to the project, including a new project manager. [00:16:16] Richard asks how The Turing Way collects feedback and demonstrates its impact on sustainability for projects that use it. Malvika shares experiences of community members using The Turing Way to influence their organizations and mentions collaborations like The Environmental Data Science book project. [00:18:03] Malvika talks about how she launched The Turing Way Practitioners Hub to gather and share evidence. [00:19:42] Richard questions what it means to adopt The Turing Way, and Malvika clarifies that it refers to adopting the practices of open and collaborative data science. [00:20:16] They address the breadth versus depth of The Turing Way's content and the idea of creating sector-specific resources. [00:24:00] Malvika speaks about outreach through talks and workshops, and highlights the diversity of narratives within The Turing Way community, such as activism for [00:26:20] Richard notices the lack of Welsh language resources in The Turing Way and wonders why it's not included. Malvika acknowledges this as a shortcoming due to underrepresentation in the community. [00:27:19] How does The Turing Way support careers of its contributors? Malvika talks about the importance of recognition, mentioning the All Contributors Bot for immediate recognition, chairing working groups, and listing significant contributors in the book. [00:30:31] Richard asks how The Turing Way supports contributors financially. Malvika stresses the value of volunteerism for skill-building and personal growth. She also talks about The Turing Way's efforts in compensating contributors through grants and mentions the limitations of institutional funding structures. [00:33:58] Malvika tells us where you can find updates and involvement opportunities on The Turing Way, and where you can follow her online. Quotes [00:05:08] “The project itself is built on a lot of open source technology.” [00:06:00] “The Turing Way is a sneaky open source.” [00:09:48] “Sometimes it happens that you don't think you're a part of a community, but you are part of a community, it's just someone didn't tell you that you are part of the community.” [00:24:27] “I think of The Turing Way as an extension of digital commons that people should use and fare, but also maintain and support.” Spotlight [00:35:31] Richard's spotlight is the Montpelier Library in Montpelier, Ohio. [00:36:11] Malvika's spotlight is Laurah Ondari, a wonderful podcaster, and her podcast, The Science In Real Life. Links SustainOSS (https://sustainoss.org/) SustainOSS Twitter (https://twitter.com/SustainOSS?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) SustainOSS Discourse (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/) podcast@sustainoss.org (mailto:podcast@sustainoss.org) SustainOSS Mastodon (https://mastodon.social/tags/sustainoss) Open Collective-SustainOSS (Contribute) (https://opencollective.com/sustainoss) Richard Littauer Mastodon (https://mastodon.social/@richlitt) Malvika Sharan X/Twitter (https://twitter.com/malvikasharan?lang=en) Malvika Sharan Website (https://malvikasharan.github.io/) The Turing Way (https://the-turing-way.netlify.app/index.html) The Turing Way start page (https://the-turing-way.start.page/) The Turing Way X/Twitter (https://twitter.com/turingway?lang=en) Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown (https://www.amazon.com/Emergent-Strategy-Shaping-Change-Changing/dp/1849352607/ref=asc_df_1849352607/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312519927002&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1321696698792624233&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9010767&hvtargid=pla-499608628957&psc=1&mcid=809f2bb32586374195942cf2c6e2aca4&gclid=CjwKCAiAvoqsBhB9EiwA9XTWGfN8LbnCRl97vsL9BOr4CpRodcEJm1tCxlv4gDnFpCXz1DpueMFthoCuQsQAvD_BwE) The Alan Turing Institute AI UK (https://www.turing.ac.uk/) The Environmental Data Science book-GitHub (https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/environmental-ds-book) The Turing Way Practitioners Hub (https://www.turing.ac.uk/turing-way-practitioners-hub) Emergent Strategy: Organizing for Social Justice (Forte Labs) (https://fortelabs.com/blog/emergent-strategy-organizing-for-social-justice/) All Contributors (https://allcontributors.org/) Montpelier Public Library (https://montpelierpubliclibrary.oplin.org/) Laurah Ondari LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurah-ondari-749175b6/) The Science In Real Life Podcast (https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/the-science-in-real-life-podcast/4513182) Credits Produced by Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/) Edited by Paul M. 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In this, our last episode of 2023, we have a fun list full of thought-provoking social commentary blended with nostalgia and unearthly vibes (with some ghosts and haunting thrown in for good measure). Recording IRL in an actual bookstore we are joined by Ruth, bookseller and owner of Drop City Books, a fabulous independent bookstore in my home city of Stoke-on-Trent. Embark on a literary voyage with the Books to Last Podcast, inspired by the BBC's beloved Desert Island Discs. Join us as we invite passionate book enthusiasts to reveal their top five must-have books for a mysterious remote adventure. Explore captivating tangents and heartwarming anecdotes along the way. Tune in for book recommendations and inspiring tales from avid readers! Guest Details: Instagram: @dropcitybooks Linktree (including newsletter!): https://linktr.ee/dropcitybooks Bookshop.org: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/dropcitybooks Podcast: W: https://anchor.fm/bookstolastpod Twitter: @BooksToLastPod Instagram: @BooksToLastPod Music by DAYLILY @daylilyuk on Instagram https://open.spotify.com/artist/31logKBelcPBZMNhUmU3Q Spoiler Warning Books Discussed: Severance by Ling Ma Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown Dracula by Bram Stoker The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Where I End by Sophie White

Just in time for the holidays: adrienne maree brown and Autumn Brown join us for a heart-opening, mind-bending conversation about sisterhood, justice, family, and how to love ourselves and people with different values simultaneously.  Why their family holidays used to end in explosions – and the strategy they used to transform family time into peaceful respites. Their intentional practice for creating a more beautiful way of spending time together - including their weekly “Sister Check-ins.”  What their mother did as children to protect their dignity, and what they are doing now to protect hers. Their beautiful vision for the future – and invitation to all of us to go with them.  For our conversation with adrienne, check out 239. Why Are We Never Satisfied? With adrienne maree brown.  About adrienne:  adrienne maree brown 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 Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds; Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good; Grievers; and Maroons.adrienne lives in Durham, NC. TW: @adriennemaree IG:@adriennemareebrown About Autumn:  Autumn Brown is a mother, organizer, theologian, artist, and facilitator. The youngest child of an interracial marriage, rooted in the complex lineages of counter-culturalism and the military industrial complex, Autumn is a queer, mixed-race Black woman who identifies closely with her African and European lineages, and a gifted facilitator who grounds her work in healing from the trauma of oppression.  Autumn is a facilitator with the Anti-Oppression Resource & Training Alliance (AORTA), a worker-owned cooperative devoted to strengthening movements for social justice and a solidarity economy through political education, training, and planning. Prior to joining AORTA, Autumn served as the Executive Director of RECLAIM!, a non-profit that works to increase access to mental health support so that queer and trans youth may reclaim their lives from oppression in all its forms. Autumn co-hosts the podcast "How to Survive the End of the World" with her sister, adrienne maree brown. She lives in Minneapolis with her three brilliant children. IG:@autumnmeghanbrown To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Believe in yourself, in your Torah, and in the value of your mitzvos

Twenty Minute VC Key Takeaways Check out the 20VC Episode Page & Podcast NotesRead the full notes @ podcastnotes.org Marc Benioff is Chair, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Salesforce and a pioneer of cloud computing. Under Benioff's leadership, Salesforce is the #1 provider of CRM software globally and one of the world's fastest-growing enterprise software companies. Benioff founded Salesforce in 1999, and it is now a Fortune 150 company with 70,000+ employees. Benioff is the owner and co-chair of TIME, and the founder of TIME Ventures. Benioff is the author of the New York Times bestseller Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change. Benioff was named “Innovator of the Decade” by Forbes and is recognized as one of the World's 25 Greatest Leaders by Fortune. In Today's Episode with Marc Benioff We Discuss: 1. The Future of San Francisco: What would Marc do if he were in charge of San Francisco today? What would he change with regards to housing, policing and crime? Why does Marc believe there are doomsday proclaimers on SF? What do they have to gain? Will Dreamforce always be held in San Francisco? 2. Money and Ambition: The Mind Behind a $200BN Machine Does Marc believe that money makes you happy? How has Marc's relationship to money changed over time? How does Marc think about bringing children up in a more affluent home? What does Marc advise anyone who is seeking "happiness" today? 3. Mastering Decisions and Prioritisation: How does Marc assess his own decision-making framework today? Has it changed with time? What is Marc's 5 step process to understand your own priorities today? What does Marc believe are the three biggest priorities for Salesforce today? What are the single biggest blockers that would prevent Salesforce from achieving their goals? 4. Marc Benioff: AMA: What does great fatherhood mean to Marc? Who would win the cage fight, Zuck or Elon? What does a day in the life of Marc Benioff look like? What does Marc think about work from home?

Marc Benioff is Chair, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Salesforce and a pioneer of cloud computing. Under Benioff's leadership, Salesforce is the #1 provider of CRM software globally and one of the world's fastest-growing enterprise software companies. Benioff founded Salesforce in 1999, and it is now a Fortune 150 company with 70,000+ employees. Benioff is the owner and co-chair of TIME, and the founder of TIME Ventures. Benioff is the author of the New York Times bestseller Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change. Benioff was named “Innovator of the Decade” by Forbes and is recognized as one of the World's 25 Greatest Leaders by Fortune. In Today's Episode with Marc Benioff We Discuss: 1. The Future of San Francisco: What would Marc do if he were in charge of San Francisco today? What would he change with regards to housing, policing and crime? Why does Marc believe there are doomsday proclaimers on SF? What do they have to gain? Will Dreamforce always be held in San Francisco? 2. Money and Ambition: The Mind Behind a $200BN Machine Does Marc believe that money makes you happy? How has Marc's relationship to money changed over time? How does Marc think about bringing children up in a more affluent home? What does Marc advise anyone who is seeking "happiness" today? 3. Mastering Decisions and Prioritisation: How does Marc assess his own decision-making framework today? Has it changed with time? What is Marc's 5 step process to understand your own priorities today? What does Marc believe are the three biggest priorities for Salesforce today? What are the single biggest blockers that would prevent Salesforce from achieving their goals? 4. Marc Benioff: AMA: What does great fatherhood mean to Marc? Who would win the cage fight, Zuck or Elon? What does a day in the life of Marc Benioff look like? What does Marc think about work from home?

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. TW: @adriennemaree IG: @adriennemareebrown To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Kara talks to Tony Award-winning producer, manager, and educator Erica Rotstein, who's currently represented on Broadway as a co-producer of Parade and Just For Us. Big moments include embracing radical candor, the idea of emergent strategy and being able to pivot your plans, and why she wants to build all of her work around relationships. More about Erica Rotsteinhttp://ericarotstein.com/Take workshops on producing theater with Erica and her Business of Broadway partners Rachel Sussman, Heather Shields, and Sammy Lopez. (They're wonderful!) https://www.thebusinessofbroadway.com/Shows, books, and resources mentioned: The musical The Appointment at WP Theater Broadway-bound musical Water for Elephants, directed by Jessica Stone The book Radical Candor by Kim Scott Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown  Author, poet, and activist Sonya Renee Taylor Do It Today is a podcast created by Kara Cutruzzula. She's the author of three motivational journals and a musical theater writer, playwright, and editor.Buy Do It Today: An Encouragement JournalBuy Do It For Yourself: A Motivational JournalPre-order Do It (or Don't): A Boundary-Creating JournalSubscribe to Kara's newsletter: https://brassringdaily.substack.com/Visit www.karacutruzzula.com, or follow her on Instagram @karacut

Alvin Schexnider is an emancipatory designer and a business operations strategist who helps institutions become more effective, just, citizen-centered, and innovative. He has 15 years of experience in leadership across design, strategy, equity, and business operations in the government, nonprofit and for-profit spaces. Currently he is a part of Capital One's Equity and Design team as a senior equity design strategist. Outside his day-to-day work, he runs GraffitiVersal, an organization that makes resources to inspire, elevate, and catalyze change. GraffitiVersal's latest release is called A Continuum of Freeing Design and Vigorous Futures, a card deck detailing an approach for designing for both equitable and just outcomes in the present, and for thriving worlds in the future. We talk about bringing human-centered design to operations and human resources.   Listen to learn about: Alvin's roundabout road into design Alvin's experiences at the Greater Good Studio Using design at the Illinois Department of Health during the COVID-19 pandemic Alvin's role as Senior Equity Design Strategist at Capital One   Our Guest Alvin (he/him) is a designer, futurist, strategist, and illustrator. He's a right brain / left brained DesignOps leader, with 10 + years of tri-sector people management, who uses foresight and equity to build and vitalize impactful organizations. He leverages his 15 years of experience and leadership across strategy & business operations, multidisciplinary design (service design, human-centered design, equity design), and org change to drive concepting, adoption, and implementation of major initiatives. At present, he is a Manager, Design Practice & Equity Design on Capital One's Experience Strategy & Operations Team; previously, he was Sr. Equity Design Strategist in its Equity by Design Program. Before this role, he was Chief People Officer of the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS - agency budget of $9 Billion), focused on improving the experience of 14,000 staff while leading a department of 130 people, and before that, he was also Senior Operations Lead for IDHS focusing on strategy, bizops, and service design projects. Alvin began to build capacity in human-centered design as the first Director of Design Operations at Greater Good Studio, a human-centered design firm that works with global foundations, government agencies, and national NGOs. Outside of his day job, Alvin is also Founder & Organizer of GraffitiVersal — an emancipatory lab using design, art, foresight, & Afrofuturism for change. GraffitiVersal's Racial DeckEquity Cardset & Continuum of Freeing Design & Vigorous Futures CardDeck have been used at organizations such as: Meta, LAB at OPM, Univ. of Chicago, and Slalom Consulting. He's also the author of A Kids Book About Radical Dreaming (via A Kids Co.) and is currently writing & illustrating his first Afrofuturist graphic novel for middle schoolers through the Sequential Artists Workshop's Graphic Novel Intensive. Besides hanging with his partner and 2 kids, you'll find him reading N.K. Jemisin or a Black Panther comic book.   Show Highlights [00:39] Alvin's love of art and storytelling started early, as a kid creating his own comics. [05:06] Starting college as a PolySci major with plans to be a lawyer. [07:18] The moment Alvin realized he didn't want to pursue law as a career. [07:56] Moving on to business management studies, and his time in Beijing. [09:02] Starting his business career at Abbott Laboratories and returning to China. [13:21] Sidestepping away from for-profit into mission-driven and non-profit spaces. [15:14] Realizing he had a knack for business operations and systems thinking. [16:47] How his time as Director of Operations at Greater Good Studio transformed his thinking and started him on his own path into design. [21:07] Immersing himself in design spaces and in learning design. [21:57] Taking all he'd learned about human-centered design into his next job — COO of Erie Neighborhood House Services. [23:52] Getting recruited to work for the Illinois Department of Human Services. [27:10] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Alvin used design to help shape the department's response. [29:19] Redesigning policies and spaces to keep staff healthy as essential workers. [35:27] Taking over as the head of HR for the department, and working on improving employee experience. [38:33] Alvin's current role as the Senior Equity Design Strategist for Capital One's Equity by Design team. [43:06] You don't have to be an official designer to use design in your work.   Links Alvin Schexnider on LinkedIn Alvin Schexnider on Medium GraffitiVersal GraffitiVersal on Instagram A Kids Book About Radical Dreaming (A Kids Co Publishing) by Alvin Schexnider - recently released! Wakanda Forever - A Film Review - Human Futures Magazine AIGA Chicago Podcast - Designing For: Equity Interview with Slalom Consulting Continuum Deck of Freeing Design & Vigorous Futures Traveling through the spacetime continuum to escape racism   Books Recommendations Kindred, by Octavia Butler We Do This Til We Free Us, by Mariame Kaba Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, by Ta Nehisi Coates Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need, by Sasha Costanza-Chock This is Service Design Doing, by Marc Stickdorn, Markus Hormess, and Adam Lawrence Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture, by Ytasha Womack Far Sector, by N.K. Jemisin Employee Experience: Develop a Happy, Productive and Supported Workforce for Exceptional Individual and Business Performance, by Ben Whittier Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, by Adrienne Maree Brown Good Services: How to Design Services that Work, by Louise Downe Drawn Together, by Minh Lê and Dan Santat   Other Design Thinking 101 Episodes You Might Like Designing for the Greater Good, Strategy + Design Thinking, and Measuring Design Thinking with Jeanne Liedtka — DT101 E1 Critical and Emancipatory Design Thinking with Lesley-Ann Noel — DT101 E57 5.5 Things Every Designer Should Know About: The Opioid Overdose Epidemic (Part 1) with Stacy Stanford — DT101 E102

So here's an idea. Pause for a moment and think about all of the many, many mitzvos you did over Pesach. Think about the kedusha you created. The changes that were made in the upper worlds. The impact your actions had. And now consider what you'd like to do next, what gains you would like to make in your avodas Hashem. We're on the countdown to kabbolas haTorah. Whatever goals you set in ruchnius, are in your reach. Let's go!

Der Climate Walk der Wanderers of Changing Worlds ist ein Projekt der in Wien ansässigen NGO European Climate Trail. Es kombiniert Forschung, Kunst und Bildung, um die lokalen Erfahrungen mit dem Klimawandel und den sich verändernden Klimata in ganz Europa zu beleuchten. Auf einer Strecke von 11.000 Kilometern durch 17 Länder gehen die Wanderer in einem langsamen Tempo vor, um die einzigartigen, aber miteinander verbundenen Probleme zu erfahren, mit denen europäische Landschaften und ihre Bewohnerinnen und Bewohner konfrontiert sind. Mit dem Schwerpunkt auf offener Beteiligung werden die Wanderer mit den Menschen, denen sie begegnen, wandern, ihnen zuhören, mit ihnen über ihre Erfahrungen sprechen und sie miteinander verbinden, um eine emotional ansprechende Erzählung für ein breites internationales Publikum zu schaffen. Mit den gesammelten Daten erstellen sie Social-Media-Posts, eine visuelle Dokumentation, Radiobeiträge, einen Podcast und eine (Wander- )Ausstellung, um die gehörten Geschichten und erlebten Dinge zu teilen. Chefredakteur Christoph Wellner spricht mit Christian Autengruber, dem Direktor des Österreichischen Kulturforums in Budapest, der sich für den Climate Walk besonders einsetzt, und mit Anna Schreinlechner, vom Core Team des Climate Walks.

Madeleine Shaw (she/her) is a feminist entrepreneur and writer based on unceded Coast Salish territory (Vancouver, BC). She is best known as the co-founder of Aisle (formerly Lunapads), one of the first groundbreaking ventures in the world to commercialize reusable menstrual products. In her first book, The Greater Good: Social Entrepreneurship for Everyday People Who Want to Change the World, she offers encouraging tips and reflections for aspiring impact-based entrepreneurs. She is passionate about creatively deploying the tools of business in service of social change, drawing inspiration from natural growth patterns as ways to build regenerative organizations, and neo-sobriety culture and discourse. Madeleine is incredibly creative, compassionate, and curious. She truly embodies what it means to be a lifelong learner. You will be inspired by Madeleine and her commitment to social entrepreneurship and her initiatives to support everyday people who want to change the world.    Listen in as we talk about: What is sustainable menstrual equity? Madeleine breaks down what this is exactly, and why it's so important when it comes to social change. Why does this conversation matter right now? Have you ever found yourself in a situation where you need menstrual products and don't have access to them? Madeleine shares how triggering this can be and why we need to address it. Why Madeleine wrote her book. We get a behind-the-scenes look at why Madeleine wrote her book, and the impact it's making globally.    Connect with Madeleine: Websites:https://periodaisle.cahttps://madeleineshaw.ca/ LinkedIn: Madeleine Shaw  Instagram: @greatergoodbook  @periodaisle Medium: https://medium.com/@madeleineshawgreatergood   Shared by Madeleine: Satya Organic: https://satya.ca Book: Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown    Connect with Tiana: Website: https://tianafech.com LinkedIn: Tiana Fech Instagram: @tianafech  Facebook: @tianafech  Book: Online Course Creation 101: A step-by-step guide to creating your first online course    WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE MENSTRUAL EQUITY Menstrual equity is a concept coined by Jennifer Weiss-Wolf in 2015 that advocates for the fair and equitable distribution of menstrual products, education, and information to those who need them. As we know, the menstrual cycle is a fundamental part of human reproduction, yet it is often stigmatized and shamed within our society. As Madeleine explains, menstrual equity aims to provide support and dignity for those who experience periods and require products, privacy, medication, education, and information.  It encompasses both material and mindset changes. Materially, it looks like free provision of menstrual products in public bathrooms. Mentally, it involves de-stigmatization and education. Sustainable menstrual equity considers the environment and long-term viability, aiming for a permanent, universal solution that is not disposable and doesn't contribute to landfill waste. Madeleine also shares that disposables like pads and tampons take up to 500 years to biodegrade and are made of up to 90% plastic – an unbelievable statistic.  Menstrual equity is a crucial concept that values and supports a core feature of human biology. By providing fair and equitable access to menstrual products, education, and information to all parties involved, we can help to destigmatize periods, support those who need it, and contribute to a more sustainable future. WHY THIS CONVERSATION MATTERS RIGHT NOW To date, menstruation has yet to be normalized, despite efforts to improve the stigma. As Madeleine explains, legislation, such as that of the BC government, and countries like Scotland are beginning to declare menstrual products as necessary and should be made available for free to all citizens.  Also, universities in Canada have started providing reusable menstrual products for free to their students. As we discuss,

Psychedelics are having a mainstream moment. They continue to gain a bigger presence in our cultural awareness beyond their druggy stereotype over the last several decades. Psychedelics also continue to grow as an approach to treating certain mental health conditions leading many people to rethink the role of these drugs from solely being dangerous to possible catalysts of healing.Over the last several years, studies using psychedelics like Ketamine and MDMA have been released focusing on complex PTSD and depression in individuals who had what was dubbed “treatment resistant.”The early results and continued results show incredible promise and are beginning to stretch views on the use of psychedelics beyond just party drugs and into powerful and legitimate supports to healing.So, I started doing my own review of the research to find trusted resources to learn from who also understood the many layers–clinically, socially, economically, and legally–surrounding psychedelics as they gain a more mainstream lens and more people are using them to support their mental wellbeing. My inquiries led me to today's incredible and wholehearted Unburdened Leader guest. Victor Alfonso Cabral is a collaborative and strategic leader who is committed to making an impact on historical inequalities in his community and beyond. Victor serves as the Director of Policy and Regulatory Affairs for Fluence Training, a company that provides evidence-based training in psychedelic-assisted therapy and psychedelic harm reduction and integration services (PHRI) to clinicians across the world. Victor is also a Licensed Social Worker and practicing psychotherapist with training in Internal Family Systems, psychedelic-assisted therapy, and psychedelic harm reduction and integration. He is listed on Students for Sensible Drug Policy's list of 40 Under 40 Outstanding BIPOC Leaders in Drug Policy in the United States and received the 2022 Emerging Social Work Leader Award from the National Association of Social Workers of Pennsylvania.Please note: Much of what is discussed is still not legal in most states and studies. This is a conversation and not a blanket permission slip to use these powerful substances without specialized and caring support. Stay curious and discerning.Listen to the full episode to hear:How connecting with his community as a struggling young adult informed Victor's call to servant leadership and his healing journeyHow a harm reduction approach to setting and safety informs Victor's approach to psychedelicsPotential red flags to be aware of with psychedelic experiences and facilitatorsWhy it's vital to consider the structural issues inherent in our cultural and legal systems when considering who benefits and profits from psychedelicsHow Victor's personal experiences with healing with psychedelic support have allowed him to unburden and tap into joy, liberation, and authenticityLearn more about Victor Cabral:Fluence TrainingConnect with Victor on LinkedInInstagram: @aWondrousMindTwitter: @aWondrousMindLearn more about Rebecca:rebeccaching.comWork With RebeccaSign up for the weekly Unburdened Leader EmailResources:We Are the MedicineFireside ProjectEmergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, adrienne maree brownJournal of Radical Permission: A Daily Guide for Following Your Soul's Calling Sonya Renee Tyalor and adrienne maree brown2Pac - “Changes”AtlantaDo the Right Thing

There is something truly unique and complex about coal mining communities in Appalachia, and Atlas Charles has experienced this firsthand. Growing up queer, nonbinary, and autistic in the Cumberland mountains of Southwest Virginia and southwestern West Virginia, Atlas understands the coexistence of hardship and beauty. Today, Atlas uses their systems leadership skills to lead the complex work of co-creating thriving communities that balance economy and collective well-being. Their work centers equity, anti-oppression, and regeneration, while believing in and harnessing the existent wisdom a community already has. Creating new Appalachian economies means honoring other people's experiences, showing up hand in hand, and building together a web of local anti-oppressive economies. This is the work Atlas does. Their heart for the oppressed and for creating safe space for all people to be seen, heard, and thrive is palpable. This is our first Yes! We Rise Episode of 2023. Welcome! LINKS/RESOURCES MENTIONED Be sure to check out more information on Atlas Charles along with the work they do at Rural Support Partners and with Economic Development Greater East. Additionally they were the Board President of Partners for Stronger Communities through 2022. Read some books that were influential to Atlas' work including: We Make The Road By Walking By Myles Horton and Paulo Freire and The Pedagogy Of The Oppressed by Paulo Freire. Some other highly recommended books from Atlas include: Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown, and Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey. The Yes! We Rise podcast is produced by Dialogue + Design Associates, Podcasting For Creatives, with music by Drishti Beats. Follow the We Rise podcast on Facebook and Instagram. Please rate, review, and subscribe to the podcast so we can continue spreading our message far and wide. Find our email list at the website: www.yeswerise.org. Thanks for listening. The Yes! We Rise podcast features solutions-seekers, change-makers, and those creating a resilient future. We share stories and strategies to inspire action to build collective resilience and community transformation. To create change, people need to feel like they belong and that they are part of a growing movement. They need to know their voice matters and that they have the inspiration, agency and ability to transform their lives and their communities. They are the key to a resilient future.     From the Navajo Nation to the mountains of Appalachia, incredible work is being done by community members and leaders. Change is often sparked by inspiration: seeing what others have done, especially in similar situations and places. People see that when someone looks like them or lives in a place like theirs, and has created real, true and lasting change, change that will allow their granddaughters and grandsons to thrive — they begin to imagine what might be possible for them.  No longer waiting for someone else to come and save them, they realize they are the ones they have been waiting for.  But what creates that spark? What creates that inspiration?  Learning through stories and examples, feeling a sense of agency and belonging, and getting fired up to kick ass creates that spark.  We Rise helps community leaders and members learn to forge a new path toward creating resilience and true transformation. One person at a time, one community at a time, one region at a time, the quilt of transformation can grow piece by piece until resilience becomes the norm instead of the exception. Together, we rise.

Hello CoCreators!This week's episode is all about good reads!  La'Kita & Chloe share with us the books that made the top of their lists this year.  These books were read (or re-read) in 2022 and resonated personally or had an impact on transforming the future of work with the CoCreate Work clients.  And you don't want to miss which title channels their inner Oprah! As always, we want to hear from you! Let us know which of these books you plan to read in 2023! Already read one of these titles? We would love to hear how they've made an impact on you as a leader in your organization.Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better by Woo-Kyoung AhnThe Prepared Leader by: Erika H. James and Lynn Perry WootenEssentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeownThe Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind & Body in the Healing of Trauma by: Bessel Van Der KolkEmergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree BrownRest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia HerseyInclusion on Purpose by Ruchika TulshyanWhat Doesn't Kill You by Tessa MillerShe Builds by Jadah SelnerResources: We're launching a Culture Certification Course this year! Are you ready to learn the step by step process for building great culture?! You can learn more here! Our Shared Purpose, Mission, and Principles Audit is a great opportunity for you to make sure you have the compass you need to provide purpose-driven direction, create an inclusive culture, engage team members, and make purpose-aligned decisions. At CoCreate Work, we believe in asking great questions. Click here to receive our guide to 40 Powerful Questions to accelerate your growth. Check out our hiring course, Hiring the Right Team for Your Business, and be sure to subscribe to our email list so you'll know when it's available for purchase. We would love to connect with you! Instagram - CoCreate Work on Instagram La'Kita on Instagram Chloe on Instagram Visit our P...Resources:Our next session of the Culture Crash Course is currently open for enrollment with the course starting on April 29th and running through May 10th. For more information, please visit cocreatework.com/crashcourse. Early bird pricing is available through April 16th. Enroll today!Additionally, we will be launching our CoCreate Work Leadership Book Club on May 1st. Stay tuned for more details! Rolling admission is now open for The Culture Certification from CoCreate Work. The Culture Certification is an 18-week live, virtual intensive that empowers human-centered leaders with actionable strategies to shape the future of work in any organization.Are you ready to learn the step by step process for building great culture?! You can learn more here!Our Shared Purpose, Mission, and Principles Audit is a great opportunity for you to make sure you have the compass you need to provide purpose-driven direction, create an inclusive culture, engage team members, and make purpose-aligned decisions.At CoCreate Work, we believe in asking great questions. Click here to receive our guide to 40 Powerful Questions to accelerate your growth.Check out our hiring course, Hiring the Right Team for Your Business, and be sure to subscribe to our email list so you'll know when it's available for purchase.We would love to connect with you!CoCreate Work on InstagramLa'Kita on InstagramChloe on InstagramVisit our Podcast PageQuestions you would like us to answer on the podcast? email us at podcast@cocreatework.com

CFTROU 0162: Faithful Neighborhood Mission-Based Presence with Brandon Shields Contrary to what is believed, there is immense power in preaching less, deepened listening, holding space, and hosting critical conversations. Brandon Shields, an author and passionate Man of God is here to discuss his family's journey of taking a leap of faith, moving to Indianapolis, planting their roots, and seeing the fruition of God's plan. You will hear how Brandon and Emily were intentionally willing to go where the spirit of God was working and how this lead them on the path of creating a neighborhood church. Brandon explains the power of slow, organic growth and the importance of presence, proximity, and particularity. Brandon explains the importance of meditating and soaking in the gospels, how to slow down and listen, and why a neighborhood church may be what you are needing! Key Points: Brandon's involvement in Harbor Network. How Brandon planted his roots in Indianapolis and began his mission of creating a church. Presence, proximity, and particularly: three key elements in Brandon's journey. The active role Brandon plays in his community. The failures and struggles Brandon faced. The power of hospitality. Moving from talking to practicing. How Brandon has helped start other neighborhood churches. The book of John, Luke, and Jeremiah as guides for understanding the actions of Jesus. Opportunities that are missed when the only focus is growth and reproduction. The power of the neighborhood church. How to pay attention to Jesus intentionally. We failed early, often, and fast. We didn't quit and kept asking ‘God, what do You doing?.Click To TweetSome of the beauty of a neighborhood church is the depth, although you don't have the width, you have the depth and the intimacy and simplicity and opportunities for embodimentClick To TweetPay attention to not just what Jesus said, but the way that Jesus livedClick To Tweet Links Mentioned in Today's Episode: Brandon Shields LinkedIn Brandon Shields Blog Soma Indy Harbor Network The Jesus Way on Amazon The Church and Its Vocation on Amazon Eternal Words and Changing Worlds on Amazon Resilient Faith on Amazon Jimmy on Twitter Leslee on Twitter Family Church Network Family Church on Facebook Family Church on Instagram Church for the Rest of Us on Twitter Get podcast updates delivered to your inbox. Subscribe for free and never miss out on an episode of Church for the Rest of Us. Subscribe via Email iTunes Google Play Stitcher RSS If you like us, rate us or leave a comment below. Hopefully, this episode has given you principles, strategies, and ideas that you can implement right now with the resources you have. If so, can you let others know? The best way to do that is to rate the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher and leave us a brief positive review! This will help us place the podcast in front of more pastors and ministry leaders. It also lets us learn from you. Thank you for taking the time to get the word out about Church for the Rest of Us.

We just had a month of kedusha. Do you know what you did? What you achieved in the Upper Worlds? Do you realize how great you are?

Hey friend, it's time to reclaim your most valuable asset.Most of us spend our time on autopilot. Some of us have been ashamed feeling like we're always behind or doing something wrong by trying to fit into the neurotypical 9-5. Yes, we exist in a world of 24/7 distraction that sustains this autopilot behavior by offering a never-ending stream of things to do. But there's more to the story. Neuro-emergent is a ripe new word for the [who] and [how] those with turbo-brains are in the world! According to Adrienne Maree Brown, in her book Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds: emergence “is fractal, adaptive, interdependent & decentralized, non-linear & iterative, resilient & transformative, justice-oriented,creating more possibilities.”Emergence “emphasizes critical connections over critical mass, building authentic relationships, listening with all the senses of the body and the mind.” I've been looking for a word that describes what I am, rather than what I divergefrom (i.e. neuro-divergent). Emergence resonates so deeply with how we naturally live with the seasons of nature and life as we continue to re-birth our states of consciousness, into full bloom: THerefore, we are Neuro-emergent.It's possible to design a different world, a world that actually works for you, uniquely. On your time.Once we understand our differences better, we can begin to design around them. The concept of TIME is a key starting place and working higher, not harder by getting into flow.Listen up!

Story of failure: Experiencing failure in the game of golf.Paul Sloat is the CEO and Family Wealth Strategist at Green Drake Advisors. Paul attended the Wharton School in Pennsylvania and publishes a monthly newsletter that focuses on the economy and building wealth. He is also becoming the CIO of a new multifamily office. In today's episode, Paul tells the story of getting let go by Blackrock while managing two billion dollars in assets, and the next steps to Green Drake Advisors. He also talks about his advisor at Cornell University and how he helped direct his path to finances and wealth management. Paul talks about having the attitude of Thomas Edison, how he learns when an investment goes wrong, and his mindset of moving on and adapting after a failure. He also tells the story of an oil acquisition gone wrong and the lesson he took from it. Lastly, Paul tells how he leverages the wonder of the internet to live the life he wants, from anywhere he wants. Let's go! Green Drake AdvisorsViews From the Stream Newsletter - Blog

Our culture has oddly conflicting views about pleasure. In this episode, author adrienne maree brown explores the importance of pleasure and how it changes your experience of the world. adrienne maree brown is the writer-in-residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, and author of Grievers (the first novella in a trilogy on the Black Dawn imprint), Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation, We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements and How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office. She is the cohost of the How to Survive the End of the World, Octavia's Parables and Emergent Strategy podcasts. adrienne is rooted in Detroit.In this conversation we talked about:What is pleasure activismThe role of sex and drugsWhy we should say yes moreHow to be in touch with our sense of “enough”The role of gratitude The line between commitment and detachmentHow she defines authentic happinessHer self-description as “a recovering self-righteous organizer,” and why self-righteousness actually leads to powerlessnessContent Warning: Discussions of sex and drugs. Full Shownotes: https://www.tenpercent.com/podcast-episode/adrienne-maree-brown-458See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

My word for 2022 is JOY.  After living through the pandemic, epically burning out last year, and navigating perimenopause fo the last five years, I was needing some joy in my life. I knew I would bee to be conscious about cultivating it, because JOY wasn't showing up on it's own.  Over solstice last winter, I shared my word JOY with my witchy friends Autumn and Jendeah and they were like, "Joy, yes, but have you considered Pleasure?" Pleasure? Ummm. no.  I'm immediately thinking, "Is pleasure necessary? Isn't it dangerous? I mean, JOY would benefit others. I'd be happier and easier to be around. I'd spread light and love to everyone who came near me, right? I mean, we could all use more joy right now." But pleasure?  Pleasure = sexy.  Sexy = not me.  But I decided to lean in. (I love/hate this quality about myself.) My resistance obviously meant I should get curious.  So I did. In this episode, I'm talking with my friends, Jendeah and Autumn - both who are faithful to the practice and experience of pleasure in their lives. I'll be honest, they feel different to be around. They experience the world, themselves and their relationships through another lens - an embodied, rich, present, and pleasurable lens.  About my guests: Autumn Youngblood is a pleasure ambassador — she has committed nearly the last decade of her life to exploring, testing, and sharing the transformational power of choosing pleasure. She is the daughter of artists, the mother of daughters, and is currently in a deep transformational process of claiming her sovereignty. She manages a retreat center called Liminalia in the coastal mountain range of Oregon where she loves to welcome friends for healing, renewal, and empowerment. Jendeah Foreman identifies as a Pleasure Activist, Witch, tarot reader, social worker, creative writer, cat mama, and a big voiced, big idea having, outspoken, hilarious, story telling, sex positive, hula hooping badass, tender hearted feminist goddess. Jenn is part of a Pleasure Coven where she meets monthly with a group of women who are dedicated to the ongoing conversation and real life application of pleasure as a guiding light for a happier, more fulfilling and lush life. She has spent the last several years prioritizing pleasure in all aspects of her life. She believes that women fully anchored in the power of their pleasure can and will save the world. Please enjoy our conversation and if the kids are around, you might want to save this episode for another time. Just saying..  RESOURCES FOR YOU! Connect with Autumn at Liminalia, a retreat center or on Instagram @_liminalia_ Connect with Jendeah on Instagram @jentacular1972 and @jendeah_tarot_magic A More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible by Charles Eisenstein Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown  Pussy: A Reclamation by Regena Thomashauer The Book of Delights: Essays by Ross Gay Uses of the Erotic by Audre Lord

So here's an idea. Pause for a moment and think about all of the many, many mitzvos you did over Pesach. Think about the kedusha you created. The changes that were made in the upper worlds. The impact your actions had. And now consider what you'd like to do next, what gains you would like to make in your avodas Hashem. We're on the countdown to kabbolas haTorah. Whatever goals you set in ruchnius, are in your reach. Let's go!

Do you find yourself feeling guilty when you're not busy? You're not alone. And, believe it or not, this way of thinking and feeling runs in the family.In this episode, Kate Northrup shares her story of overcoming personal and culturally inherited limiting beliefs and finding a loving relationship with time and money. She sheds light on the importance of self-care and how it's not equal to sacrificing productivity. By doing less, we're actually creating a more meaningful impact on our well-being and on our future generation's well-being, too.As an entrepreneur, bestselling author, and mother, Kate Northrup has built a multimedia digital platform called The Origin Company that reaches hundreds of thousands globally. She's committed to supporting ambitious women to light up the world without burning themselves out. Kate teaches data and soul-driven time and energy management practices that result in saving time, making more money, and experiencing less stress. She's the author of Money: A Love Story and Do Less and the creator of the Do Less Planner System. Kate's work has been featured by The Today Show, Yahoo! Finance, Women's Health, Glamour, The NY Times, Harvard Business Review, and more. She lives with her husband and their daughters in Miami.Tune in if you want to learn how to start your own love story with money and time.Quotes• “They are not separate. Our financial well-being is deeply connected with our emotional well-being.” (7:16 - 7:22)• “Because historically, as women, there has been so much limitation and oppression, especially around financial empowerment, we have to understand that the ancestral trauma of the women in our lineage actually lives in ourselves.” (13:43 - 14:00)• “I think it's a very common assumption that people hear do less and they automatically replace it with do nothing. So what it is, is doing less of the things that don't get you the results that you want so that you have more energy, time, and bandwidth for the things that do get you the results.” (21:47 -22:17) • “My work is not exclusively determined by what I do and how busy I am.” (23:28 - 23:33)• “There's a level of stress and pressure that feels like home to you. And so if you don't address that and choose what home feels like to you, you will continue to recreate what home feels like to you through creating stress, dizziness, and pressure” (26:59 - 27:25)Connect with Kate:Website: katenorthrup.comIG: @katenorthrupFB: facebook.com/katenorthrupcommunity/Twitter: @katenorthrup Resources mentioned: The Big Leap by Gay HendricksBurnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia NagoskiEmergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brownInvestHER CON Time: June 23-24 Place: Charlotte, NCInvestHER CON is a full circle transformational experience created with the women investors' needs, desires, and schedules in mind. The event brings top-notch experts in Real Estate Investing, Business Strategies, and Self-Care who will push the boundaries, expand the mindset, and promote deeper connections among the attendees. Learn from real teachers who will share actionable strategies so you can leave the event with the knowledge, connections, and confidence to grow your investing business and live life on your own terms.Get your ticket today: https://www.therealestateinvesther.com/investherconHow To Join the InvestHER Movement 1) The Real Estate InvestHER Podcast - The weekly show details the journey of some of the most amazing women real estate investors around the world, who open up their lives and share practical and strategic tools for growing a rental portfolio, flipping houses, and the mindset that allows them to run a successful investing business while taking care of their families and most importantly taking care of themselves. Subscribe via:Apple Itunes SpotifyAmazon MusicAndroid Stitcher 2) The Real Estate InvestHER Membership STRIVE is a one-of-a-kind membership for experienced women investors looking to make deeper connections and take their Real Estate business to the next level. 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We have created exclusive content and support for the InvestHER™ eXp Team:*Top skills and strategies to grow YOUR business*How to utilize your “real estate agent” advantage to become a real estate investor*Monthly live masterminds*Become part of Libertas Organization with top coaches, Tim and Julie Harris.Jonna Hall Weber is leading our team. If you have any questions or are ready to join our team, click here to schedule a call with her.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

adrienne maree brown joins Jordan to talk about the moment she learned what her style of leadership looked like, about the power of saying things aloud, and about her love of Octavia Butler and finding her way to writing fiction. MENTIONED: The League of Young Voters (or The League of Pissed-Off Voters) AK Press Left Turn Magazine's 2010 issue "Other Worlds are Possible: Visionary Fiction, Culture, and Organizing" edited by Walidah Imarisha Octavia E. Butler's archive at the Huntington Library in Pasadena adrienne maree brown is the writer-in-residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, and author of Grievers (the first novella in a trilogy on the Black Dawn imprint), Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation, We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements and How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office. She is the cohost of the How to Survive the End of the World, Octavia's Parables and Emergent Strategy podcasts. adrienne is rooted in Detroit. For more Thresholds, visit us at www.thisisthresholds.com Be sure to rate/review/subscribe! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Below the Radar, host Am Johal is joined by adrienne maree brown, organizer and author of nonfiction activism explorations Pleasure Activism, Emergent Strategy, and more. Together, they discuss brown's history as a community organizer and facilitator, the powers of solidarity and pleasure in activism, and some of her inspirations—from Audre Lorde and Octavia Butler to the beauty of nature itself. Full episode details: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/166adrienne-maree-brown.html Read the transcript: https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/transcripts/166-adrienne-maree-brown.html Photo credit: Anjali Pinto Resources: - adrienne's website – https://adriennemareebrown.net/ - adrienne's Twitter – https://twitter.com/Adriennemaree - Octavia's Brood – https://www.akpress.org/octavia-s-brood.html - Pleasure Activism – https://www.akpress.org/pleasure-activism.html - Emergent Strategy – https://www.akpress.org/emergentstrategy.html - Audre Lorde's “The Uses of the Erotic” essay — https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/11881_Chapter_5.pdf - Public Reading and Dialogue on Octavia Butler and the Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSMZbgo0XZA Bio: adrienne maree brown is the writer-in-residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, and author of Grievers (the first novella in a trilogy on the Black Dawn imprint), Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation, We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements and How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office. She is the cohost of the How to Survive the End of the World, Octavia's Parables and Emergent Strategy podcasts. adrienne is rooted in Detroit. Cite this Episode: Johal, Am. “The Pleasure in Liberation – with adrienne maree brown” Below the Radar, SFU's Vancity Office of Community Engagement. Podcast audio, March 29, 2022. https://www.sfu.ca/vancity-office-community-engagement/below-the-radar-podcast/episodes/166-adrienne-maree-brown

In today's episode, we're headed to Kansas City, Missouri, to talk to Lauren Higgins.Lauren has been working with systems thinking for more than half her life and today she shares her journey to becoming a systems thinker and talks about how she remains anchored and sane in the wild dance with systems. Lauren Higgins, co-director of Democracy Together, is active in civic conflict resolution and restorative justice efforts in her current home of Kansas City, Missouri. For 10+ years she has facilitated multi-stakeholder projects and produced large scale events focused on social innovation, public imagination, and the new economy. As senior staff at the Impact Hub Network, she developed democratic governance convenings to help 100 communities align their collective impact. Currently, at the Kauffman Foundation, she designs innovation and capacity building programs to advance systemic approaches to inclusive prosperity.Listen to the full episode to hear: The relationship between linear thinking, urgency, and reactivity Why systems change requires a foundation of genuine relationships based on curiosity, mutual, respect and trust How the concept of emergence helps us think about complex adaptive systems and nurtures change How systems thinking can get tangled with mechanistic models, and why it won't actually help you predict and control outcomes  How de-centering herself helps Lauren balance awareness of pressing global issues with what she is capable of contributing Learn More About ​​Lauren Higgins: Democracy Together Twitter: @LoHiggs Connect with Lauren on LinkedIn Learn More About Anika Horn: Website: www.socialventurers.com  Instagram: SocialVenturers Newsletter: Sign up for Impact Curator April 14: Burn both ends, register here and tell your friends! Resources: Margaret Wheatley, A Simpler Way Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, adrienne maree brown Octavia Butler Colectivo 1050° Dave Snowden Donella Meadows - Dancing with Systems

Abolition cannot happen without being intentional about creating a deep community. We often hear that our liberation is bound up in the liberation of our neighbor. But what exactly does that mean and how do we get there? In this episode, in conversation with Rev. Elle Dowd and Alonzo Waheed, we will wrestle with what it means to be in a deep community. How do we work at building community in ways that center accountability instead of perpetuating logics of punishment? How do we create community cultures that promote both self and collective care? How do we practice mutual aid as an act of solidarity (redistributing our resources within a community)? -- RESOURCES Baptized in Teargas, Rev. Elle Dowd Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, Adrienne Maree Brown --- CONNECT WITH OUT GUESTS Alonzo Waheed, Sr. Rev. Elle Dowd --- Camille Hernandez www.camillehernandez.com Instagram, Twitter, TikTok: @hellocamilleh Jia Johnson www.jiajohnson.com Instagram & Twitter: @jiaajohnson Facebook: Jia Johnson -- This podcast is hosted in collaboration with McCormick Theological Seminary's Solidarity Building Initiative for Liberative Carceral Education.

What does a just climate future look like? In this bonus episode Ayana and guest adrienne maree brown discuss Imagine 2200, Fix's climate-fiction contest, which recognizes stories that envision the next 180 years of equitable climate progress, imagining intersectional worlds of abundance, adaptation, reform, and hope. Turning towards fueling the imagination, this episode touches on stewarding a just future and the value of presence with ourselves, each other, and the movements we dedicate ourselves to. We are in a battle for our attention and for our imaginations. The winner will determine the future of the climate and of humanity. Facing this reality, and the reality of a changing climate is not easy, but despair around this can bring us closer to the earth and to each other when it is used as a learning tool. In the shift from panic to practice, visionary fiction is vital medicine, and adrienne guides us to stretch our minds to see a future beyond what the confines of white supremacy, colonialism, heteropatriarchy, and capitalism tell us is possible. adrienne maree brown is the writer-in-residence at the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, and author of Grievers (the first novella in a trilogy on the Black Dawn imprint), Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation, We Will Not Cancel Us and Other Dreams of Transformative Justice, Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements and How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office. She is the co-host of the How to Survive the End of the World, Octavia's Parables, and Emergent Strategy podcasts. adrienne is rooted in Detroit. Music by Nia Simone and The Mysterious They. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points.

This is a conversation with Marie E. Berry and Milli Lake, co-founders and principal investigators of the Women's Rights After War Project. We primarily spoke about their article "on inconvenient findings" and their paper for Annual Reviews "women's rights after war: on gender interventions and enduring hierarchies" Support: Patreon.com/firethesetimes Website: http://TheFireThisTi.Me Substack: https://thefirethesetimes.substack.com Twitter + Instagram @ firethesetimes Topics Discussed: The limitations of many 'women's empowerment' programs What happens when research findings challenge the work that policy makers are invested in promoting? Example of degrowth and economics Who gets excluded when certain interests (such as class) are maintained? Examples of Rwanda, Bosnia and Lebanon Narrowly-defined arena for justice The three Dayton agreements (referencing the episode with Aida Hozic) and ongoing situation in Bosnia and Serbia War logics in 'postwar' contexts The USA as a 'postwar' country Should we make inconvenient findings less inconvenient? The idea of nation states The role of futurism and speculative movements Resources Mentioned: 69/ The Entrenched “Manliness” of Ethnic Power-sharing Peace Agreements (with Aida A. Hozić) https://thefirethisti.me/2021/03/28/69-the-entrenched-manliness-of-ethnic-power-sharing-peace-agreements-with-aida-a-hozic/ Recommended Books: Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines by Alexis Pauline Gumbs Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals by Alexis Pauline Gumbs The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation by adrienne maree brown On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint by Maggie Nelson Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

MPH candidate Molly Weber joins Omana today to discuss the book “Emergent Strategy” by adrienne maree brown. In this conversation, they explore the principes and elements of emergence and how to apply it to our ever changing world.

How might we collapse a world rooted in extraction and nurture one built on reciprocity? What can decomposition teach us about seeding sustainable futures? Join us as queer Hoodoo, earth tender, and living ancestor Jordan Alexander Williams contemplates the liberation of land, ourselves, and our communities from “radical individualism” in this soul-stirring conversation with Amirio Freeman. From meditating on a week spent at the revolutionary Soul Fire Farm to exploring the beauty of mycelial networks, Williams walks us through possibilities for planting world(s) worth growing into. GUEST: Jordan Alexander Williams (they/them) is a queer Hoodoo, earth tender, and living ancestor. Jordan was born and raised in the so-called Chicagoland area of Illinois, lands stewarded by many peoples and lineages including: the Potawatomi, Miami, Ho-Chunk and at least a dozen more Indigenous Nations, and Hoodoos / Black African peoples of Turtle Island (so-called North America). In 2016, Jordan graduated from the University of Illinois (a land-grab university) with a degree in environmental science and a concentration in human dimensions of the environment. They have since collaborated with human and more-than-human beings across Turtle Island to: develop the collective visions and leadership of environmental changemakers; facilitate organizational culture shifts towards anti-racism and cooperative leadership; cultivate food, climate, and ecological justice; and build liberatory practices, relationships, and spaces with Two-Spirit, Queer, and Trans / Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (2SQT/BIPOC). Jordan trusts that the liberation and regeneration of people and planet will come by dancing in the moon and sunlight, getting our hands in the soil, caring for each other, and reclaiming and evolving the earth-sourced wisdom(s) of our ancestors. RESOURCES: Soul Fire Farm Soul Fire Farm BIPOC Farming Immersion Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land Hoodoo Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System by Katrina Hazzard-Donald Ep. 25 Mama Rue Breaks the Juju Down (A Little Juju Podcast) Nested Wholes & Fractals The Regenerative Life: Transform Any Organization, Our Society, and Your Destiny by Carol Sanford Regenerative Design for Change Makers by Abrah Dresdale Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown

Thumbprint Studios sat down with D-Nick, a storyteller, musician, and self-produced entertainer. Hear D-Nick's story about how he has paved his own path in the music industry, by using the skill set he acquired during his higher education. D-Nick The Microphone Misfit is the lead MC, lyricist & artistic director of the group The Microphone Misfitz. The group has toured worldwide from grassroots gatherings to South By Southwest; from Algeria to China. Sharing stages with luminaries such as Crucial Conflict, Dead Prez, KRS-ONE, Jeru tha Damaja, Saul Williams, Mega Ran and more. Focused on the themes of living for a healthier state of mind; and uplifting those who are trying to find their path in this world, The Fitz embodies the acronym Healthy Independent People Helping Other People (H.I.P. H.O.P.). In 2018 the group made history by being the first Hip-Hop group from the USA to officially perform in China since the country banned Hip-Hop. Each of the group's albums come inside of a full-length comic book. Along with performing and recording music each member of the group does arts programs in Chicago and abroad training and educating youth in dance, music production, art, vocal training, and restorative justice. The group has held residencies with organizations and universities such as Columbia College Chicago, Northern Illinois University, and Changing Worlds & Civic Leadership Foundation. Edited by: Rachel Post Intro & Outro Music by: Marc Young Transcript: TBA --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/prints-unedited/support

With Earth in Color, sustainability scientist and designer Darel Scott is reclaiming the relationship between Blackness and Greeness through vibrant, community-oriented media. In the face of a mainstream environmental movement rooted in the erasure of the lived experiences of Black folx, Earth in Color is a call to reimagine, reclaim, and regenerate. Tune in as host Amirio Freeman connects with Darel to talk about creating spaces that center and celebrate Black connections to Earth, holding histories of harm, and activating meaningful allyship in Black-led spaces. Guest: Darel Scott is a designer, sustainability scientist, and the founder of Earth in Color, an emerging media platform and creative studio focused on Black culture, community healing, and the natural world. Through creative storytelling and nature experiences, Earth in Color celebrates Black culture connections to nature and helps us heal with the Earth. Darel is on a personal mission to cultivate collective healing, spark Earth curiosity, and nurture deep joy in the Black community. She is a tea fanatic and loves developing plant-forward recipes. You can check out those recipes and so much more @earthincolor.co! Resources: Radicle Magazine “Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry” by Camille Dungy “Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds” by adrienne maree brown “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer

In this week's episode of the Unshiny Podcast, I'll be talking about how we all get to be pioneers. Not only building our business but in shaping the industry and the wider culture around us, simply by doing our businesses, our way. For years opening and running a business was prohibitively expensive. -Out of reach for most folks, especially women and people of colour. But technology means you can now start a business that makes money with only a phone and a wifi connection.  The means of production are in our hands. The gatekeepers of business- the bank managers and investors who were ones who could say yes or no, loan the start-up money, grant the permits and so on are no longer the ones in control and the barriers have been removed.   This is exciting because there are so many opportunities in this brave new world, and because the industry is so new we have the opportunity to shape it in any way we choose. The downside of that is there are no real roadmaps, apart from those being pushed, by the guys who used to be the gatekeepers - hence the bro marketers and the Tony Robbins style machismo of the disgruntled white dude shouting at us from our computer monitors insisting we need their formula or wisdom to be 'successful'. So how do we find our own path and avoid the pitfalls? How do we decide on the direction? And how do we make sure that we're not bringing familiar toxic practices like overwork and burnout over into our businesses? I'll be diving into all this in this episode, including The origins of the word pioneer. A bit of a history of barriers to even starting a business for many folks. The beauty and the drawbacks of being the first on the path. And how we can use this opportunity to create nourishing, sustainable businesses - not only for ourselves but as a model of possibility that reshapes the culture of work altogether. Books Mentioned in this episode:Burnout by EMILY NAGOSKI, PHD and AMELIA NAGOSKI, DMAEmergent Strategy Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by ADRIENNE MAREE BROWNPrevious Unshiny Podcast Episodes Mentioned:Episode 1 - What Is An Unshiny BusinessEpisode 2 - The Co-Delusion Of The Shiny LifeEpisode 3 - Coach Your Own Business 

Who do you trust? Are universities trustworthy? Professors? What about students? Philosopher Tony Laden (UIC Chicago) is writing a book about democracy. He sees higher ed as a way to think about trust networks and broader questions about how we talk to each other. Episode transcript Citations (and further reading!): Binder, Amy J., and Kate Wood. Becoming Right: How Campuses Shape Young Conservatives. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ Press, 2014. Brown, Adrienne M, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. Chico, CA: AK Press, 2017. Jack, Anthony Abraham. The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. Laden, Anthony. "Teaching, Indoctrination and Trust." (forthcoming in Academic Ethics Today, ed. by Steven Cahn (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022). Lao-tzu and Stephen Mitchell. Tao Te Ching: A New English Version. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1994. Nguyen, C. Thi (forthcoming). "Trust as an Unquestioning Attitude." Oxford Studies in Epistemology. Westover, Tara, Educated: A Memoir. New York: Random House, 2018. Special thanks to Grace Welsh, Carrie Peredo, and Natnael Shiferaw for reading the student excerpts. This episode was produced by Carrie Welsh, with help from Natnael Shiferaw, Harry Brighouse, and Tony Laden. Recorded January 2021. Music is "Eye on Me" by Ketsa and "Cascades" by Podington Bear.

This is a conversation with Kai Kuhnhenn and Linda Schneider. They recently co-wrote a really important and freely-available study exploring a Societal Transformation Scenario (STS) on how to limit global warming to 1.5°C. Topics Discussed: The importance of the study The problem with assuming economic growth in studying environmental impact The reliance on growth in Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports Risks of geoengineering Degrowth for the Global North How the Societal Transformation Scenario (STS) differs from mainstream economics The problems with uncritical techno-optimism The risks of overshoot Why Recycle is the least important of the three Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle What about the Global South? Addressing economic justice What exactly does Net Zero mean? Keystone pipeline Exploring the possible Having hope Climate anxiety Recommended Books The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency by Andreas Malm You can also make use of a really good FAQs section. If you like what I do, please consider supporting this project with only 1$ a month on Patreon or on BuyMeACoffee.com. You can also do so directly on PayPal if you prefer. Patreon is for monthly, PayPal is for one-offs and BuyMeACoffee has both options. If you can't donate anything, you can still support this project by sharing with your friends and leaving a review wherever you get your podcasts! The Fire These Times is available on Apple Podcasts, Anchor, Breaker, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, Radio Public, Spotify, Pocket Casts, Castro, Vurbl and RSS. Music by Tarabeat.

How is higher education changing? The pandemic accentuated important questions about the role of colleges in preparing students for a rapidly evolving future. Tacy is joined by New York Times bestselling author, journalist and education thought leader, Jeff Selingo, to discuss insights from his latest book, Who Gets in and Why, and explore some of the most pressing challenges facing higher education today. In addition to Adobe's recent research into the importance of essential creative skills in student success, Tacy and Jeff discuss his extensive investigation on today's admissions process. Jeff answers questions such as: How can colleges adapt to stay relevant? What skills and experiences provide the most value to students after graduation? And, what role do creative skills play in both college admissions and life-long success?  Connect with Tacy Trowbridge on Twitter @tacytrow and follow Jeff's latest work by following @jselingo.

My guest this episode is Jamarah Amani. Jamarah is a community midwife who believes in the power of birth and the right of every birthing person to the care and services they need. Jamarah's lived mission is to do her part to build a movement for Birth Justice locally in South FL, nationally in the US, and globally. A community organizer from the age of sixteen, Jamarah has worked with several organizations across the United States, the Caribbean and in Africa on various public health issues, including HIV prevention, maternal and infant mortality, access to emergency contraception and access to midwifery care. She's  currently the director of Southern Birth Justice Network, a non-profit organization working to demand dignity for pregnant and parenting people and to make midwifery and doula care accessible to marginalized communities. Jamarah is also the co-founder of National Black Midwives Alliance and was the 2019 recipient of the Trailblazer Award from the City of Miami.Our conversation centers around Birth justice, racial maternal disparities, the power of alignment, and doing life (and birth) on your own terms. Mentioned in this episode:Statistics on black maternal health Black women are three to four times more likely to experience a pregnancy-related death than white women.Black women are more likely to experience preventable maternal death compared with white women.Black women's heightened risk of pregnancy-related death spans income and education levels.Kira Dixon Johnson, 4Kira4MomsBlack Mothers Keep Dying After Giving Birth. Shalon Irving's Story Explains WhySouthern Birth Justice NetworkDonate to Southern Birth Justice Network via PayPalBlack Midwives AllianceLegacy Power Voice: Movements in Black Midwifery (documentary film)How to Survive the End of the World podcast Emergent Strategy : Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brownThe Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee TaylorParable of the Sower by Octavia ButlerTomi Adeyemi Crafts Fantastic Worlds with WordsYour Attention Please - A Hulu PodcastBlack Stories Presents: Your Attention Please

In this conversation, Philip spends Rob Hopkins and Rob Shorter. The trio discuss Rob Hopkins' book From What Is to What If and how it inspired the creation of the Imagination Sundial designed by Rob Shorter. The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest share tasty morsels of intellectual goodness and creative musings. Philip's Drop: Chadwick Boseman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chadwick_Boseman#Filmography) Rob Shorter's Drop: Radical tenderness (https://decolonialfutures.net/rt-recording/) by Dani d'Emilia, Vanessa Andreotti & GTDF Rob Hopkins' Drop: Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (https://www.amazon.com/Emergent-Strategy-Shaping-Change-Changing/dp/1849352607) by Adrienne Maree Brown Special Guests: Rob Hopkins and Rob Shorter.

adrienne maree brown is the author of Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and the co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is the co-host of the How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia's Parables podcasts. adrienne is rooted in Detroit. To connect with amb become a member to her site- http://adriennemareebrown.net/membersh.../membership-levels/ Payment Links: cash app: $adriennemareedough venmo: adrienne-brown-25 paypal.me/adriennemaree Follow Adrienne on social media at: https://twitter.com/Adriennemaree https://www.instagram.com/adriennemareebrown/ --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-full-set-podcast/support