Bridging toward Belonging

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Your boundaries set you free
Boundaries, Responsibility, Apology, and Repair: What does it look like to take the right amount of responsibility -- no more, and no less -- for…
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What does it mean to belong?
Belonging as an embodied felt sense of safety, power, wholeness, and welcome: a relational quality that can be cultivated and practiced.
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Money, the gift economy, and belonging
Design principles for the post-capitalist future we long for
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Victimhood and the allure of "power-under"
Understanding trauma, agency, and what it takes to heal
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We need to talk about scale
Taking responsibility — with humility — for building a world where everyone belongs
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What does it mean to be a "good white man"?
Taking seriously a fraught inquiry
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We need to talk about leadership
What is the quality of leadership we need to build a world where everyone belongs?We desperately need bold leaders capable of caring for the whole… what…
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Belonging @ Scale: Part 1
The art of systems curation... for transformation
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Personal reflections on gender... and belonging
The future is nonbinary... and so am I
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I asked for belonging... they gave me power
Pain, privilege, and the possibility of liberation
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The audacity of desire
Agency, Responsibility, Consent, and Belonging
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Belonging to ourselves, each other, and the earth
From decolonization to... re-indigenization?
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