BONUS: Relating During the Pandemic with Autumn Brown

How to Survive the End of the World

Society & Culture

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Before our new season kicks off next month, we're thrilled to bring you this essential episode from The Emergent Strategy Podcast. To support ESII, click here.

Mother, organizer, theologian and writer, Autumn Brown, joins host Mia Herndon on this week's episode of The Emergent Strategy Podcast. In a lively discussion, Autumn talks about parenting during the pandemic, the challenges and positives of relating through technology, and discovers (excitedly) the Hide Self View feature.

Society wants children who will become adults who believe their productivity is more important than their feelings. Me socializing my children to value their feelings at least as much as their productivity, if not more, isn't just about 'I want you to love yourself and be authentic!', it's also about'I want you to know when something is unfair. I want you to know when harm is happening.' If you're socialized to downplay your feelings, it's harder to know when harm is happening.That's part of what emergent strategy is inviting, there are things happening at these micro scales, like the scale of a relationship between a mother and a daughter. There are these lessons that we can extrapolate and scale for movements as a whole. But if we don't understand that the fundamental unit of change is relationship, then it will be hard to scale.- Autumn Brown on how emergent strategy (transformative justice as resilience) shows up in parenting.

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0:00.0	Hello beloved listeners, this is Adrienne, and just letting you know what we have in the
0:10.4	feed this week. What follows is a conversation that Autumn had with Mia Herndon for the
0:18.1	Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute podcast, the Emergent Strategy podcast, and they cover
0:25.9	all manner of things, but some really tender stuff around parenting in this age of COVID,
0:32.0	and what parents are having to navigate how they're keeping their kids safe, what education
0:37.0	looks like, and what society is preparing our children to do and to be. So we think this is a
0:42.5	really valuable conversation we want everyone to hear it, and we hope you enjoy it.
0:49.6	We innately understand that in order to remain functional as parents,
0:55.0	we have to be in a practice of like forgiveness and metabolizing of those experiences,
1:01.9	like forgiving our parents, forgiving ourselves, forgiving our children, and metabolizing
1:07.8	all of it and learning from all of it as it's happening so that we're not reinforcing those
1:14.7	same patterns with our children, not doing the same harms to our children that we're done to us.
1:25.0	Hello and welcome to the Emergent Strategy podcast, hosted by the Emergent Strategy Ideation
1:51.1	Institute. We are a collective of facilitators, mediators, trainers, and curious human beings
1:58.8	interested in how we get and right relationship with change. Today I'll be guiding our interview,
2:04.7	my name's Mia. I'm the Mason of abundance, a facilitator, and black mama with ESII. Emergent
2:13.3	Strategy is the way we generate and reshape complex systems and patterns with relatively simple
2:19.4	interactions. And today's guest is Autumn Brown. Autumn writes visionary fiction and creative
2:26.8	nonfiction. Her writing has been featured in Octavius Brude, the proscian science fiction anthology,
2:35.2	revolutionary mothering, pleasure activism, and more. She co-hosts the podcast how to survive the
2:42.2	end of the world with her sister, Adrienne Marie Brown. She is a facilitator and political educator
2:48.2	with the entire question we source in training alliance, aorta. Autumn lives in Minneapolis with
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