You’re Not A Bad Person: How Facing Privilege Can Be Liberating
You’re Not A Bad Person: How Facing Privilege Can Be Liberating
You’re Not A Bad Person: How Facing Privilege Can Be Liberating
Article
17 - 25 minutes
When we have privilege, we can have access to resources resulting from legal or social norms related to membership in a group -- independent of any (in)action, awareness of the disparity, the potential benefits to us, or the costs to others. Unhelpful ways of engaging with privilege are: denial/invisibility, guilt/shame, defensiveness, and entitlement. Helpful ways of engaging are: owning privilege, learning about privilege, opening to feedback, and stewarding privilege for benefit of all. To be helpful we need to engage with necessary (rather than unnecessary) discomfort.
Restoring Dignity And Meaning To Work and Separating It From Sustainability
Restoring Dignity And Meaning To Work and Separating It From Sustainability
Restoring Dignity And Meaning To Work and Separating It From Sustainability
Article
24 - 36 minutes
Even in the pandemic the line between what’s essential for people and what is “essential” for fueling the economy, often gets confused. Capitalist market economies actively undermine attending to needs for the many and for life as a whole. Economic recovery is a mirage leading to continued collective oppression. This article explores possible ways to bring us closer to attending to our actual needs — and caring for self, others and life.
From Personal to Global Trauma: The Through-Line
Article
6-9 minutes
Our everyday personal experiences of diminishment, and the destruction of our planet has a through-line. Societal traumas lead to us shutting down to avoid pain, and this limits us. The avoidance shifts our brains so we don’t see other beings, species and our planet as wondrous, precious and irreplaceable. Thus, we meet others with diminishment, oblivion, or abuse; trauma keeps passing on. This leads to being blind and mute, and to othering based on social location, and to destruction of our planet.
From Awareness to Action: Creating Bridges Across Differences
From Awareness to Action: Creating Bridges Across Differences
From Awareness to Action: Creating Bridges Across Differences
Audio
45 minutes
For many people, attempting to connect with others across differences can feel akin to walking through a minefield. With humility, tenderness, and courage, Roxy challenges your perspectives and encourages you to open your heart and mind.
As Things Get Worse
Article
20 - 30 minutes
As we head towards impending collapse the relative ease, comfort and freedom of the global north will be harder to maintain. Because of growing anxiety including from people with systemic power, we can anticipate increasing attempts at authoritarian control over the population. We can see what's occurring now as dry run practice for what's coming soon. What may help us: finding choice, knowing when to choose death, and walking towards community and life.
When Effects Are Invisible: From Comfort to Freedom
When Effects Are Invisible: From Comfort to Freedom
When Effects Are Invisible: From Comfort to Freedom
Article
13 - 19 minutes
While so many of us know how close we are to the edge of global catastrophe and want change, what makes the existing global system continue to function with our ongoing participation? Read on for more on the challenges and path towards learning to steward life and all the resources of this one planet for the benefit of all.
Grounding in Interconnection and Solidarity
Article
10 - 15 minutes
Human health is connected to health of ecosystems and other societies. Our wellness and liberation is found in our interconnection, kinship, reverence for life, and solidarity. Solidarity erodes through narratives, practices and policies that separate us from each other -- and this impacts societal functioning. The breakdown creates conditions for pandemic, racism, police brutality, exploitation in untold numbers, and extinction. Read on for how all is connected.
Responding to Breakdown of Trust in Police: Capitalism, Racism, and Creative Compassion
Responding to Breakdown of Trust in Police: Capitalism, Racism, and Creative Compassion
Responding to Breakdown of Trust in Police: Capitalism, Racism, and Creative Compassion
Article
39 - 60 minutes
If we're to have a better future, our biggest task will be to reexamine what the police are, their place in the system, and more. Police violence exists by systemic design. The myths of where the problems and symptoms lie with the police, capitalism, laws, government, citizens, class and racism --plus the relationship between all these-- is what keeps oppression ongoing on a mass scale. For change to happen, we'll need to find systemic leverage points, and use privilege to benefit those without it. Read on for more.
Addressing Needs Beyond Market Economies
Article
22 - 31 minutes
Within the pandemic, limitations of our market economies are more visible. Extreme need is exposed when the economy is collapsing and so many people are without jobs. We can now see how it’s possible to direct resources where they are most needed, solely out of care and interconnection. This is a call to explore a more viable way of living, that centers relationship over transaction.
From Awareness to Action: Creating Bridges Across Differences (6 Session Course)
From Awareness to Action: Creating Bridges Across Differences (6 Session Course)
From Awareness to Action: Creating Bridges Across Differences (6 Session Course)
Audio
10 -12 hours
For many people, attempting to connect with others across differences can feel akin to walking through a minefield. With humility, tenderness, and courage, Roxy challenges your perspectives and encourages you to open your heart and mind. Roxy uses concrete examples and visual tools to illustrate complex concepts.