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Dr. Durryle Brooks
Scholar · Practitioner · Framework Builder


Frameworks for solidarity, love, and collective liberation.

Frameworks Creator, Scholar-Practitioner, Movement Educator, Author, and a Man Devoted to Building Love as Practice.

Dr. Durryle Brooks, PhD, is the creator of the Critical Theory of Love, the Relational Capacity Grid, the Self-Reverence Map, and the Liberatory Developmental Framework — frameworks experienced by thousands of movement leaders, educators, and organizations across nonprofits, higher education, labor, and community spaces.

His work makes what has felt unnameable more visible, more nameable, and more possible to work with — in classrooms, coalitions, organizations, and the private moments when a person realizes their capacity is political and their wholeness matters.

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