Sales and Eco-Erotics: Selling from a Place of Radical, Inherent Belonging
Note: This potent little audio series was first published as an asynchronous audio teaching in the first iteration of The Vision Society, recorded and delivered by your instructor, Dajé Alōh.
The premise of this audio zine is to reframe our thinking about how we approach sales.
Instead of coming from a bro-marketing “push push push” view, we’re instead approach sales through attunement, relationship, and seeing ourselves and our customers as parts of a living system.
In this audio series, we explore how the “sense” of radical, inherent belonging is a key part of being able to successfully and congruently share and sell our offerings. This is an eco-systemic approach that centers how the body feels, is rooted, and negotiates reciprocity inside of a living ecosystem.
Chapters in this audio zine:
Pt. I: Listening for What the Earth Wants to Teach us About Sales
Pt. II: Sales is a Way of Pulling Down the Fertile into Form
Pt. III: Approaching Sales Skill as a Business Maturation
"The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling.
We have been taught to suspect this resource, vilified, abused, and devalued within western society...But the erotic offers a well of replenishing and provocative force to the one who does not fear its revelation, nor subcumb to the belief that sensation is enough."
— Uses of the Erotic, Audre Lorde
"If we are grasping for creative energy; if we have trouble pulling down the fertile, the imaginative, the ideational; if we have difficulty focusing on our personal vision, acting on it, or following through with it, then something has gone wrong at the waterspill juncture between the headwaters and the tributary.
Or the creative waters are flowing through a polluting environment wherein the life forms of imagination are killed off before they can grow to maturity. More often than not, when a woman is bereft of her creative life, all these circumstances are at the root of the issue.”
— Chapter 10 of Women Who Run with Wolves, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
