Holding Change

Facilitation and mediation are important skills in our highly organized world. Holding Change is a guide for attending to both in ways that align with nature, with pleasure, with our best imaginings of our future. It provides lessons for generating the ease necessary to move through life's inevitable struggles and for practicing the art of holding others without losing ourselves. Black feminists have evolved this wisdom, but it can serve anyone working to create change, individually, interpersonally, and within our organizations. The majority of the book is sourced from brown's twenty-plus years of facilitation and mediation work, with additional wisdom from a selection of living Black feminist facilitators and mediators.

Auteur

adrienne maree brown is the author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds; Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good; co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements; cohost of How to Survive the End of the World and Octavia's Parables; and founder of the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute.

Contenu

Heart of the Book (Intro)

Holding Space

The Spirit, The Way

How to Use this Book

Emergent Strategy Refresher

Assessments

Black Feminist Wisdom

Facilitation

Intro: What Is and Isn't Facilitation

Fractal Facilitation

Intentional Adaptation Facilitation

Nonlinear/Iterative Facilitation

Interdependent/Decentralized Facilitation

Transformative Justice/Resilience Facilitation

Creating More Possibilities Facilitation

Mediation

Intro: What Mediation is and isn't

Transformative Justice Mediation

Fractal Mediation

Intentional Adaptation Mediation

Nonlinear/Iterative Mediation

Interdependent Mediation

Creating More Possibilities Mediation