Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation

by adrienne maree Brown

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849354196
Publisher:	AK Press
Publication date:	04/22/2021
Series:	Emergent Strategy Series , #4
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“adrienne maree brown is powerful both as a healer and as a thought leader. Her revelatory work, Holding Change, arrives at the intersection of activism and whole-wellness, at a time when the world needs it most. Holding Change is about improved communication, achieving conflict resolution, and making space for others while still holding one’s self in high regard. A necessary and mighty tool.”
—Patrisse Khan Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter and NYT bestselling author of When they Call You a Terrorist

“adrienne maree brown is not an outsider looking into movement work but a weaver who has committed her life to our collective liberation ... She helped us advance our structure, systems, and vision in ways that allowed us to stay grounded in our north star. She is a master adapter and a gift to the movement.”
—Karissa Lewis, Rising Majority

“Adrienne is the most powerful, insightful facilitator I have ever had the privilege to witness, let alone work with ... Her technique is a powerful demonstration of how strong, innovative facilitation has the ability to help leaders build visionary movements.”
—Thenjiwe McHarris, Blackbird and Movement for Black Lives

"Holding Change is the kind of wise resource book I wish so very badly that I had when I was free and organizing.... brown is both pragmatic and compassionate in her advice, recognizing that a broken system breaks people and that we can only do the work that is needed as the people we are. That maybe we can both get to our destination of a better world together and learn to be better to each other as part of the same process." 
—Marius Mason, political prisoner