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Brian Stout

Brian Stout

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Jan 2, 2024

Repairing the ruptures: 2024 intentions

I considered 2023 the Year of the Phoenix: a time of intentional harvesting, composting, and transition. My headline for the year was…

Repairing the ruptures: 2024 intentions

Brian Stout

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Nov 30, 2023

Polyamory, Politics and Power: a curated resource list

Polyamory, Politics and Power: a curated resource list

Brian Stout

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Nov 27, 2023

Learning to love: from monogamy to polyamory

What if we could create relationships and intimacy from desire and consent, not merely following a default path that was never built for…

Learning to love: from monogamy to polyamory

Brian Stout

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Jan 3, 2023

Build with those who are ready: 2023 intentions

Transformation, belonging, and desire: offering an embodied invitation

Build with those who are ready: 2023 intentions

Brian Stout

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May 18, 2022

Boundaries, limits, needs, desires, and wants: seeking interdependence

Living a life without coercion requires attuning to our needs and desires… and practicing interdependence with others.

Boundaries, limits, needs, desires, and wants: seeking interdependence

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Building Belonging

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Brian Stout

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May 4, 2022

What 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:

What do we mean by “community”?

Brian Stout

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Dec 31, 2021

Intentions for 2022: what you pay attention to, grows

I 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…

Intentions for 2022: what you pay attention to, grows

Brian Stout

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Nov 18, 2021

Power 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…

Power beyond supplicant politics: building the “parallel polis”

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Building Belonging

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Brian Stout

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Oct 21, 2021

Building 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.

Building Belonging: an intentional “future dojo”

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Building Belonging

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Brian Stout

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Aug 7, 2021

Reflections on scale and responsibility

One might it look like to take appropriate responsibility… for the world? With intentionality, care, and humility?

Reflections on scale and responsibility

Brian Stout

Brian Stout

Global citizen, husband, father, activist. I want to live in a society that prioritizes partnership over domination.

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