Emergent Strategy

In the tradition of Octavia Butler, radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want.

adrienne maree brown, the Co-Editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, is a social justice facilitator, healer, doula and pleasure activist living in Detroit. She is a student of emergence, somatics, transformation and science fiction. She is part of the training body of generative somatics, and coodinating the Just Films Narrative Shift Program for Allied Media Projects. She is the 2015-2016 Ursula le Guin Fellowship, the Knight Arts Challenge for 2013 and 2015, a Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for 2013, in the inaugural Speculative Fiction Workshop at Voices of Our Nation 2014, and a graduate of the Clarion Sci-Fi and Fantasy Workshop in 2015.

Introduction What is Emergence? a complex movement------Lineage Elements of Emergent Strategy Adaptation (with Intention, Life Towards Life)------Sci-Fi GroundingTransformative Justice------Sci-Fi GroundingInterdependence------Sci Fi Grounding------interdependence is iterativeNonlinear/Iterative------Sci Fi GroundingFractals------Sci Fi GroundingCreating More Possibilities------afrofuturism and #blackspring PracticesSomaticsFacilitationprinciples of emergent processes in facilitation