Brian StoutRepairing the ruptures: 2024 intentionsI considered 2023 the Year of the Phoenix: a time of intentional harvesting, composting, and transition. My headline for the year was…11 min read·Jan 2, 2024--1--1
Brian StoutLearning to love: from monogamy to polyamoryWhat if we could create relationships and intimacy from desire and consent, not merely following a default path that was never built for…19 min read·Nov 27, 2023--2--2
Brian StoutBuild with those who are ready: 2023 intentionsTransformation, belonging, and desire: offering an embodied invitation9 min read·Jan 3, 2023--1--1
Brian StoutBoundaries, limits, needs, desires, and wants: seeking interdependenceLiving a life without coercion requires attuning to our needs and desires… and practicing interdependence with others.8 min read·May 18, 2022--1--1
Brian StoutinBuilding BelongingWhat do we mean by “community”?Since the inception of Building Belonging, we’ve wrestled internally with this question: what are we? On our homepage we say we are:5 min read·May 4, 2022--1--1
Brian StoutIntentions for 2022: what you pay attention to, growsI love the new year: it’s the most universal “holiday” we have as a species (even if many traditions follow a lunar or seasonal calendar…8 min read·Dec 31, 2021----
Brian StoutPower beyond supplicant politics: building the “parallel polis”In the wake of COP26 and the manifest failure of the world’s elites to do anything close to what’s necessary in the face of the climate…8 min read·Nov 18, 2021----
Brian StoutinBuilding BelongingBuilding Belonging: an intentional “future dojo”On the importance of building bridges from the world as it is… to the world as we need and long for it to be.9 min read·Oct 21, 2021----
Brian StoutinBuilding BelongingReflections on scale and responsibilityOne might it look like to take appropriate responsibility… for the world? With intentionality, care, and humility?5 min read·Aug 7, 2021----