The Garden of Ideas is an interactive living library featuring writing, videos, podcasts, and tools by adrienne maree brown and her collaborators. Visitors may wander the Garden paths, starting with the main paths of Emergent Strategy, Radical Imagination, and Being Here. You can also curate seed packets to draw inspiration from and share with community. 

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Garden tender adrienne maree brown is a visionary, author, and public conversationalist growing a garden of healing ideas. adrienne’s body of work illuminates love, emergence, pleasure, and radical imagination as ideas and practices for transformation – within ourselves, our communities, and our movements for liberation. Visit adriennemareebrown.net to learn more.

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The hope of this garden is for its seeds to grow wild. The seeds are freely available to any person or community who needs them: they were passed to adrienne with love, which is how she passes them on to you.

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Navigating the Garden 

Like most magical places, the Garden of Ideas was designed with wandering in mind. There are three main paths with several branching paths from each one:

• Emergent Strategy: Change is constant. Emergent strategy is a philosophy and practice for navigating and shaping change by learning from principles of the natural world.
• Being Here: Our bodies are the vessels through which we live our lives. How do we return to our bodies in real time? How do we turn toward aliveness? 
• Radical Imagination: When you give yourself permission to imagine, feel pleasure, and love, you are practicing the act of radical freedom. 

Need a Map?

We see you Virgos! Here’s how we recommend getting started:

1. Create an Account: This will allow you to save and organize ‘seeds’ for learning, growing, and sharing.
2. Head to the homepage to take the quiz: Answer a few questions to determine which ideas may be calling to you in this moment.
3. Your quiz results will present you with a collection of seeds from writing, to podcasts, to video conversations on ideas to support your explorations. This is where the wandering begins. 
4. When you find a piece that speaks to you, select “Save to Seeds.” You can then revisit, sort, and share your seed collections, just like playlists.
5. Not all who wander are lost – however, if you get lost, you can scroll down the page to find ‘Your Path,” which can help you retrace your steps to find the way you’ve come.

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More of an audio/visual learner? Check out this walkthrough recorded by the Garden Tender herself:

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May your wanderings be fruitful, and may you find the nourishment that’s seeking you. 

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The Garden of Ideas is a living ecosystem and work in progress. If you notice anything that needs tending, please let us know.