Emergent Strategy Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

And because I was like, I need to, for instance, I was like, I need to stop this war right now. Like we need to do something big. They're like, but small is all. And you know that that's how change happens is relationships. And you know that you have to create more possibilities.

They're just like, we're going to use it. And I'm like, I'm going to use it. And then I'm like, I'm going to use it. And then I'm like, I'm going to use it. And I'm like, you're like, that sounds really smart. No, this is really helpful idea.

It's really helpful. This is great. And then bringing that into family where it's like my sister, you know, you talk about fugitivity and I'm just like, oh yeah, we are living in a family of people living in the South with white family. They're still struggling with race, struggling with what it actually means to be a white person.

arming yourself with the concept quote small is all from a from Adrian marine Brown's emergent strategy framework outside of its global fractal context to resist taking responsibility for a larger scale intervention or growing your community group into a mass organization

arming yourself with the concept quote small is all from a from Adrian marine browns emergent strategy framework outside of its global fractal context to resist taking responsibility for a larger scale intervention or growing your community group into a mass organization

one of the principles of emergent strategy which was kind of the first book I put out by myself was what you pay attention to grows

Oh yeah, I definitely have climate anxiety. Sometimes I might even say I have climate despair, you know?

After I had been organizing for like 15 years, I was feeling very hopeless. You know, I was just like, I don't understand how we get ourselves into a formation that can survive.

Oh yeah, I definitely have climate anxiety. Sometimes I might even say I have climate despair, you know?

That's Adrienne Marie Brown, a social and environmental justice activist and author of Emergent Strategy, a book about shaping our relationship with the changing Earth.

After I had been organizing for like 15 years, I was feeling very hopeless. You know, I was just like, I don't understand how we get ourselves into a formation that can survive.

Oh yeah, I definitely have climate anxiety. Sometimes I might even say I have climate despair, you know?

After I had been organizing for like 15 years, I was feeling very hopeless. You know, I was just like, I don't understand how we get ourselves into a formation that can survive.

So the word emergence for people who don't know the definition I work with comes from Nick Obolinsky and it's emergence is the way complex systems and patterns arise out of relatively simple interactions.

And the strategy part comes in, you know, I was in a movement moment where everyone was talking about who was strategic, who's the most strategic and who's creating a strategic plan and all of this.

And I realized that there was no specificity, like you could be strategic and still causing a lot of harm. And so I was like, you can be a hierarchical, patriarchal, strategic person, right?

So I was like, we should be more precise. And I think what we mean by strategic is able to adapt to changing conditions while still moving towards our vision of freedom and the future and being in that practice.

So that's what emergent strategy is. It's like, how do we get in a right relationship with change that allows us to harness and shape things towards community, towards liberation, towards justice?