Holding Change
Holding Change
The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation
The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation
Holding Change
The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation
In our complex world, facilitation and mediation skills are as important for individuals as they are for organizations. How do we practice them in ways that align with nature, with pleasure, with our best imagining of our future? How do we attend to generating the ease necessary to help us move through the inevitable struggles of life? How do we practice the art of holding others without losing ourselves? Black feminists have answers to those questions that can serve anyone working to create changes in our world, changes great and small; individually, interpersonally, and within our organizations.
Holding Change is about attending to coordination, to conflict, to being humans in right relationship with each other, not as a constant ongoing state, but rather as a magnificent, mysterious, ever-evolving dynamic in which we must involve ourselves, shape ourselves and each other. The majority of the book is sourced from adrienne’s twenty-plus years of facilitation and mediation work with movement groups.
Includes contributions by Autumn Brown, Sage Crump, Malkia Devich-Cyril, Ejeris Dixon, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Prentis Hemphill, Micky ScottBey Jones, N’Tanya Lee, and Makani Themba.
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Excerpts & Tools:
- Kitchen Table Meditation
- Emergent Strategy Principles
- Emergent Strategy Page
- We Will Not Cancel Us Page
- Lineages of Change Tarot Deck
Podcasts:
- On Radical Imagination and Moving Towards Life
- Holding Change with Micky ScottBey Jones
- Building New Worlds With Andrea Ritchie
- Internal Freedom with Ericka Huggins
- Slowing Down Your Slow Down with Geoffrey Jackson Scott
- Transiting with Omisade Burney-Scott
- Observing Urgency with Yolo Akili Robinson
- Dancing with the Speed of Trust with Shalewa Mackall
- Interconnectedness with Mallika Dutt
- Devotion, Strategy and Rigor with Sendolo Diaminah
- Emergent Education with Ana Luis, Luis Alejandro Tapia and Marinieves Alba
- Finding Freedom in Change: Marcia Lee and En Lee of Taproot Sanctuary
Links/Articles:
- An Ode to Collective Organizing
- Four Insights for Radical Organizing From the Mysterious World of Mushrooms
- adrienne maree brown and Prentis Hemphill On Restoring Our Rhythm
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