Moral Anguish, Human Nature, and “White Fragility”
The actual felt experience of moral anguish as I understand it is entirely different from shame, guilt, or defensiveness. Having experienced it myself and seen and accompanied others, I know it to be soft, wrenching, and entirely open-hearted.
“Some Things Are Just Wrong…” Or Are They?
Sometimes NVC is wholly dismissed by some people precisely because of this. If we are not going to say that rape, or murder, or racism, or Nazism, or communism, or child trafficking, or whatever the person in front of us believes is wrong, then we are wishy washy nonsense, says the person and walks away in a huff.
What Does It Take to Reach People? The Power of Perspective Taking as a Bridge to the Soul
Perspective taking is usually defined as being able to understand how another person sees the world: what story they will tell themselves about this or that situation; how they will explain to themselves why they are doing something
From Philanthropy to De-Accumulation
The path towards flow is simple and immensely difficult: shedding what we have accumulated and restoring trust in natural abundance after having broken it to create artificial surplus and manufactured scarcity; uncoupling giving from receiving and restoring trust in each other’s capacity for gifting after millennia of exchange; and releasing control and restoring trust in ourselves and our capacity to face hardship after being habituated to fixing every little discomfort with money and technology.
Feminism as Power and Love: Realigning Humanity with Life
In this article, I present a feminist vision of a global maternal gift economy and pathways to moving towards it from where we currently are, in the grip of patriarchal systems and conditioning.
A Love Letter to My Brothers
What I want, what I am putting all my efforts into, is to create, with others, a field of love strong enough to surround the patriarchal field. To surround patriarchy with love. Because nothing else will do.
Beyond Horizontalism:
Co-creation within a Led Field
The overall phenomenon is the way that so many of us relate to pockets of high capacity and of leadership as being at odds with co-creation.
Nonviolent Resistance in the Face of Hostility: Walking towards Conflict with Care for All
More often than not it’s the gap between stories that fuels conflicts, not the needs themselves that parties to conflict have, nor even their different strategies for attending to needs.
Increasing Collective Capacity for Visionary, Collaborative Leadership
Collaborative leadership, as I understand it, is a transformative practice. In addition to patriarchal norms, it also challenges the anti-authoritarian, horizontalist rebellion against leadership of any kind.
Why Capitalism Cannot Be Redeemed
This piece is the result of my preparation: forty-three reasons why capitalism cannot be redeemed, in seven categories.
