Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

We define a shift as social, political, economic and/or cultural transformation. From our perspective, we want shifts in the direction of ecological resilience and social equity, as an imperative. We believe that shifts can emerge from collective “aha” moments when social movements awaken the popular imagination to new possibilities and spark socia

We learn facts out of context of application in school. How will this history, science, math show up in our lives, in the work of growing community and home?

in spite of their best intentions, those who aren’t directly impacted only see the surface layer(s) of the impact, and thus come up with surface solutions that don’t address the deep-seated multi-pronged need in the community.

facts, guilt, and shame are limited motivations for creating change, even though those are the primary forces we use in our organizing work. I suspect that to really transform our society, we will need to make justice one of the most pleasurable experiences we can have.

Simple means that it boils down to relationships between individual people, objects, beings, truths. Ease has more to do with the amount of friction (or understanding) between the peopleobjectsbeingstruths. And part of what can clear a path to making things easier is to name the simple interactions at play in a complex system.” —Rachel Plattus

It’s lifework, with benefits. I regularly check in with my vision for our collective future and make adjustments on how I am living, what I am practicing, to be aligned with that future, to make it more possible.

Our generation must walk the spiritual path that is available to us only in this time, with its own unique combination of wisdom and creation.

We must create patterns that cycle upwards. We are microsystems.

Emergent strategy includes being decentralized. Brazil’s team was oriented around key stars who embody certain skill sets. When those players are in and on, it is the most beautiful playing I have ever seen. For Germany’s team, even after watching them play several games, I couldn’t point out anyone irreplaceable on their team, any superstars or be

The oppression of false peace: we are taught that our truths are disruptive, and that disruption is a negative act.