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Banner: Deep Self-Care: for ourselves as political activists and for our movements.

3.2 Why it's so much harder for us than for them

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3.3  Days when reality is impossible to accept

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1.0 BREAK THE SPELL

  • 1.1 Make your hard decisions nurture you
  • 1.2 Defy the global dementor

2.0 MAKE A POLITICAL HOME

  • 2.1 The danger of political homelessness
  • 2.2 Find your partners, network into coalitions

3.0 KNOW THE GAME WE’RE IN

  • 3.1 Tribal fundamentalism: our blessing and our curse
  • 3.2 Why it’s so much harder for us than it is for them
  • 3.3 Days when reality is impossible to accept

4.0 STEP OUTSIDE THE GAME

  • 4.1 Murray Bowen’s beautiful strategy
  • 4.2 Develop your own personal independent moral stance
  • 4.3 Who I am matters more to me than my fate
  • 4.4 A deeper definition of soul
  • 4.5 The best kind of reparation: moral transformation
  • 4.8 Boomers, let’s not dump the job of salvation on young people
  • 4.7 Identify with our species not our tribes
  • 4.8 Self-development for our movements

5.0 PLAY AGAINST THE GAME

  • 5.1 This special power
  • 5.2 The tribal parenthesis (look in here)
  • 5.3 Hypocrisy isn’t a double standard, it’s worse
  • 5.4 We need an enemy we can personify
  • 5.5 Self-defense without demonizing
  • 5.6 Loyalty tests
  • 5.7 Tribe matters more than truth
  • 5.8 Born to gossip

6.0 GIVE NO QUARTER TO NIHILISM

  • 6.1 Despair so deep it erupts into rage
  • 6.2 Tribalism without the nurturance
  • 6.3 To a nihilist, nurturance is an existential threat
  • 6.4 Nihilism is moral abdication
  • 5.5 The “strongman” is a moral weakling
  • 6.6 A life of abundant hatreds and eager cruelty
  • 6.7 The tragedy of Trump, the tragedy of us

7.0 INVITE TRANS-TRIBAL CONVERSATIONS

  • 7.1 Listening is a good start but not enough
  • 7.2 Prepare yourself for the challenge
  • 7.3 Decide who you want to talk with
  • 7.4 Discovery interviews using curiosity questions
  • 7.5 Deepening questions
  • 7.6 Dialogues and role playing
  • 7.7 The common-ground strategy
  • 7.8 Focus on process, which means relationship
  • 7.9 Be their advocate no matter what
  • 7.10 Name the despair in the room
  • 7.11 Narrate yourself

8.0 ADVANCED ISSUES

  • 8.1 Protect the hope continuum from tribal division

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