For the love of bell, Salvation: Black People and Love | A Soils Lab with Danielle Dominique | Practice Map
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For the love of bell, Salvation: Black People & Love
Soils Lab with Danielle Dominique | Practice Map
monday | 14 March 2022 | 6pm Est
Using lessons from Mama bell, let’s dream up strategies to incorporate and personify love in our society. Hugs will be one of my strategies to do this but there are many ways to accomplish this. Bring your brilliance and let's dream them up together!
The second session in the For the Love of bell series explores the second book in her love trilogy, Salvation: Black People and Love.
According to bell, the lack of scholarly text written by Black women inspired her to create what she thought was missing. She went even further and created a manual for Black folks to follow to navigate this life with love at the center. I hope to do the same, except for instead of creating a “manual” on how to do it, I want to dream strategies into existence. Imagine a world where instead of war there was a mandatory meeting of leaders and elders, with hearings and discussions, with therapists and mediators ending in an EMBRACE, possibly judged by other leaders for authenticity. All with the goal of hearing both sides, exchanging perspectives to find solutions.
The second part of a 3-part series on Mama bell, our practice is inspired by bell hook’s second book in her trilogy on love, Salvation: Black People and Love.
Revisit the other sessions in the For the Love of bell series:
Part 1: All About Love: New Visions
Part 3: Communion: The Female Search for Love
this soils lab includes these elements:
Workshop in development/experimental practice
Idea mapping/dreamscaping/visioning
Excerpt from Salvation: Black People and Love by bell hooks.
meet the creator
Danielle Dominique
Danielle Dominique is a dreamer and aspiring LOVE scholar. I am thankful for the chance to dream out loud here in the Garden.
Follow @Danidominique_theconglomerate on Instagram
about our soils lab
Soils Lab is a central component of Mother Mother’s evolving creative practice methodology, An Introduction to Soils: Preparing the Heart, Mind and Body for Deeply Generative Creations.
Soils Labs are where we explore practices that nourish our soil of creation, the substance from which we create everything we do. Soils Labs journey into diverse creative realms like writing, storytelling, visual art, sacred rituals, healing practices, movement, birth and fertility studies, and so much more. Every creator shares from the wealth of her brilliance, and we all grow from there.
attending soils lab
Soils Labs are collaborative-time, virtual gatherings. To honor and protect the intimacy of our sharing, Soils Labs are not recorded. We are a Come As You Are congregation and you are welcome to attend as much or as little of the lab as you like. You must be a creator in the Garden who has confirmed conscious participation to receive the access link for the labs. Please visit the Fertility Abundance Garden Welcome Center to join the Garden and begin attending Soils Labs. If you have recently or previously joined the Garden, visit the Sanctuary to confirm or reconfirm your conscious participation.
About soft-time
The Garden thrives in soft-time expansions. While the Soils Lab is a collaborative-time gathering, we consciously create multiple points of engagement for all creators to participate in the majesty of our explorations and experiments, whether or not you attend the lab. In addition to the practice maps, our Soils Labs are archived in multiple places inside the Creators Portal and the Creators Shared Diary. We also extend conversations and discovery opportunities in the Creators Channel and Fertile Majesties groups. Mattering soft-time practice spaces is a vital way that we disrupt mandates of capitalism, and continue to decentralize fixed-time and cumpulsory-time standards as universally legitimate and relevant. In making space for the diversity of our life rhythms and labors, we take great care to develop generative, nourishing methodologies that honor the fluid nature of our lives as creators.
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