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Role traditionally held by women in the family or community, often working with a midwife or a doctor in the process.

Have been a doula and birth supporter for several births.

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Can we understand and hold a position we previously believed to be wrong?

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The book is a culmination of the author's thoughts on society in relation to systems. To what extent do you think spending time pondering systems of life is useful to society? Is it even necessary to have to be "useful" to society?

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Can violence be a way to express the love? Killing or elimination of potential threats is everyday thing in the nature. Through violence, nature protects what it loves. Does aggressive protests lack love?

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Do you see humans as part of nature? Do you see humans’ special characteristics that make humans different from the rest of the world?

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Emergence shows that adaptation and evolution depend more upon critical, deep, and authentic connections.

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“all that you touch you change / all that you change, changes you.”
-Octavia Butler

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-Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, and countless other black people are dead because they are dangerous in some white imaginations
-The idea of the American Dream
-Imaginations gives us borders, superiority, race...

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-Facts, guilt, and shame as motivations for creating change are limited in capacity
-Brown argues that to transform society, justice must become one of the most pleasurable experiences to have

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Think back to Grassroots reading (most protest participants stem from connections through every-day interactions)

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“Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.”
-Octavia Butler

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-Originally a way of describing adaptive/relational leadership model found in Octavia Butler's work
-Became plans of action/personal practices/collective organizing tools that create change and rely on the strength of relationships
-Turned into strategies for organizers building movements for justice , using simple interactions to create complex systems
-Currently: a way for humans to practice complexity, future planning, relationship building

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Do you think humans are capable of achieving such drastic change in becoming less linear and more loving/organic in action, like mushrooms in Brown's example? Or are humans not comparable to such different forms in nature?

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-Birds know to flock and migrate through a gut instinct in their bodies
-Cells are the building blocks of civilization
-Oak trees stay resilient through a storm through their intertwined roots

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"Emergence is the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions"
-Nick Obolenksy

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Brown discusses a possible core function of humans to be "love". Do you think this is true? Why? If not, what would it be?

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What is our function in this planet?
“A mushroom is a toxin-transformer, a dandelion is a community of healers waiting to spread… What are we as humans, what is our function in the universe?”

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How humans adapt to become the world we strive for.

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Notices the way small actions/connections create complex systems