Nonviolent Communication for Liberation: Flow, Mobilization, and Emergency
I have been on the path of liberation for decades, and most pointedly since 1996. Liberation, as I have been saying for years and years, overlaps with and is distinct from healing. Liberation, for me, is restoring capacity in areas where patriarchal conditioning has robbed us of it. It’s a …
Experiments with Truth
We use this phrase to refer to a deep commitment to practicing here and now every aspect of our vision, including at the edges of what we can imagine, to see how far we can go in applied nonviolence.
Material Risk Sharing for a Livable Future
I want to speak of the difference between “no exit” and “trap”. No exit is organic and part of life, born of the reality of being social animals.
Liberation for All: How We Can Talk Differently about Power and Privilege
For the most part, almost everywhere and every time, I have found conversations across power differences repeatedly unsuccessful.
From Exchange to Gifting Part Three: Reintegrating into Flow One Experiment at a Time
In this third part, I want to look more clearly and fully at what we can do, both individually and as groups, communities, and organizations.
From Exchange to Gifting Part Two: Beyond the Exchange/Gift Binary
Many people, even those who live fully within the exchange paradigm and don’t ever think about maternal gifting, prefer going to a farmers’ market, if one exists where they live, or to a local store, rather than to a supermarket. Sometimes they prefer it enough that they are even willing to pay more money. There is a reason for it.
From Exchange to Gifting Part One: Why We Need to Find Our Way out of Scarcity
I [...] looked up economics, and discovered, with anguished relief, that scarcity was baked into the very definition of economics. The one I found at the time was “the study of the allocation of scarce resources.”
Grappling with Our Own Power
In a position of structural power and leadership, I fully accept my responsibility, in general, to hear impacts of my actions on others with less power before saying anything about my own experience of the relationship and any impacts I may have absorbed within it.
Every Tree Wants to Make a Forest: Choice, Togetherness, and the Maternal Gift Economy
Finding our way back to flow means walking back, upstream and uphill. This is the path of nonviolence: walking towards in the face of powerlessness, walking towards in the face of separation, walking towards in the face of scarcity.
Visionary Functioning: Shifting Resource Flow Systems from Incentive to Willingness
(An edited excerpt from the “Resource Flow Systems” learning packet)
Our modern forms of engaging with resources are based on a deep-seated belief about human nature that is so pervasive that it almost never gets said explicitly: that we are only motivated by self-interest, narrowly defined, and that we won’t …
