For The Worldbuilders

Our fear invites us into the rites of passage, experiential learning, and embodied pedagogical opportunities unique to our current needs and life journey.The question is, what does fear want to teach us?We embrace fear and reasonable doubt because it teaches us WHERE and HOW we long to be RESOURCED — no matter the season of life we’re navigating.You might want to get a pen and paper. Inside this episode I’ll teach you how to use Erotic Engineering to collaborate with fear to actualize your desire in 3 steps.ResourcesApply To The Powerhouse Portal for 1:1 Erotic Engineering Support: https://www.seedaschool.com/phTune into my “Off The Grid” conversation with Amelia Hruby: https://offthegrid.fun/shownotes/ayana-zaire-cotton-ai-shameSubscribe to the Substack: https://seedaschool.substack.com/Cover Art: Carrie Mae Weems, “Portrait of a Woman Who Has Fallen from Grace and into the Hands of Evil” (1988)

Make a daily decision to commit to your dream.Make a daily decision to commit to your truth.Make a daily decision to commit to your power.We can decide we already belong at any time.That daily decision is the practice of aligning your desire with your capacity.This practice is what I like to call, Erotic Engineering.ResourcesApply To The Powerhouse Portal for 1:1 Erotic Engineering Support: https://inhodj7ezvc.typeform.com/to/s0Si8w6E Subscribe to the Seeda School Substack: ⁠⁠⁠https://seedaschool.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠Cover Art: Kodachrome image of Zora Neale Hurston taken 1946 July 18 by Carl Van Vechten (Source: Yale Collections)

I’m seeing a lot of folks call for the public shaming of AI-users and AI-defenders. While that gets a lot of social media engagement and while I understand the righteous rage, the frustration, the moral outrage…I also know shame doesn’t work. It’s sticky but not effective. Shame induces silence, but self-respect induces power. What we need right now is to ground down and root in our collective power. Our worker power. That’s why I recorded this episode. ResourcesJoin Us In The Laboratory of Erotic Engineering: ⁠https://www.seedaschool.com/lab⁠Subscribe to the Seeda School Substack: ⁠⁠https://seedaschool.substack.com/⁠⁠Follow Ayana on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@ayzaco⁠⁠⁠Follow Ayana on Threads: ⁠⁠⁠@ayzaco⁠⁠⁠Follow Seeda School on Instagram: ⁠⁠⁠@seedaschool⁠⁠Follow Seeda School on TikTok: ⁠@seedaschool⁠CitationsCover Art: Jack Whitten, Dead Reckoning I (1980) “In 1980, starting with Dead Reckoning, it was the first time I stood up to do a painting in ten years. It felt good. It felt good to come up off the floor and stand straight…Dead Reckoning is a term I had first heard when I was at Tuskegee, when I was with the Air Force ROTC. It deals with navigation. I remember the instructor explaining, at a certain point, as he put it, “If some shit happens,” [laughs] he says, “you have to make a decision.” Which is your best chance for survival? Do you continue on your present course? Or do you turn around and go back? That was the first time I’d heard that term, “dead reckoning.” Another version is that you throw away all your navigational tools. Get rid of all your tools. Learn to plot, to navigate, no tools. Just go by your heart, go by your feeling. It’s a rich term.” — Jack Whitten (Source: MoMA)

My intention inside this episode is to honor all the work you’ve done this year by offering a Winter Solstice spell, inviting you to get curious about the somatic architecture you’re dreaming from inside your next season. But above all, in this episode I want to celebrate you. Over the past 5 years you have held the overlapping grief of witnessing public lynchings by the hands of the police, a global pandemic we’re still inside of, wildfires and other continuous climate crises and witnessing genocide and humanitarian crises from Palestine to Sudan — not to name the domestic and relational ruptures you’ve tended to on more intimate scales, the new cities moved to, the new homes and communities you’ve had to build. And look at you, still choosing vulnerability, still choosing relation, still choosing love, still choosing to believe in yourself and your values and by extension — still choosing to believe in us. For that I am recording this episode to say thank you. This is my offering of gratitude.ResourcesLearn More and Apply The Powerhouse Portal to Work Together 1:1: https://www.seedaschool.com/phEnroll Into The Laboratory of Erotic Engineering Membership: https://www.seedaschool.com/labSubscribe to the Seeda School Substack: ⁠https://seedaschool.substack.com/⁠Follow Ayana on Instagram: ⁠⁠@ayzaco⁠⁠Follow Ayana on Threads: ⁠⁠@ayzaco⁠⁠Follow Seeda School on Instagram: ⁠⁠@seedaschool⁠Follow Seeda School on TikTok: @seedaschoolCitations“Switching Houses From Scared Child House To Erotic Power House: How Corporal Punishment in Childhood Impacts Desire” by Ayana Zaire CottonSeed A World Retreat Alumni nènè myriam konaté invited us to imagine our existence as the offer in one of Seeda School's Open Studio sessions and that has been our grounding north star ever since. Check out their, clap back manifest(o), a 9-week personal excavation offer in service of fugitive practice(s).“Tend to the scared child first” post by Sonya Renee Taylor“Because I Love You” by Lex MarieCover Art: Betye Saar, Black Girl’s Window (1969) Saar has acknowledged the self-referential nature of the assemblage: “Even at the time, I knew it was autobiographical,” she has said. “We’d had the Watts Riots and the Black revolution. Also that was the year of my divorce. So in addition to the occult subject matter there was political and also personal content.” (Source: MoMA)

Read full newsletter: Why You Don’t Have What You Want — The Missing Link In The Be, Do, Have FrameworkRegister for free Discovery Workshop: Seed A Sales System Rooted In The Truth Of Your Desired IncomeYour cosmic desire steadies the ground as it shifts beneath your feet inside the work of transforming the stories you identify with — providing a much needed update to the “Be ➡️ Do ➡️ Have” framework into “Desire ➡️ Be ➡️ Do ➡️ Have”. As with everything we must ground inside desire first, so let’s start there.What’s your cosmic desire?How will it help hold the identity shifting work you’re being called into in this season of your business and worldbuilding practice?How do we practice remembering knowing what we want isn’t nearly as powerful as knowing why we want it?Reflecting on these questions is the Worldbuilder’s Way. These are the exact questions we answer inside the new Seeda School discovery workshop, “Seed A Sales System Rooted In The Truth Of Your Desired Income”. Register today to join us.