Category Archives: Liberation

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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.

The Fearless Heart

Inspiration and tools for creating the future we want. Courage to live it now.

Category Archives: Liberation

Moral Anguish, Human Nature, and “White Fragility”

“Some Things Are Just Wrong…” Or Are They?

From Philanthropy to De-Accumulation

Feminism as Power and Love: Realigning Humanity with Life

A Love Letter to My Brothers

Increasing Collective Capacity for Visionary, Collaborative Leadership

Nonviolent Communication for Liberation: Flow, Mobilization, and Emergency

Liberation for All: How We Can Talk Differently about Power and Privilege

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