Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

visionary fiction

invite more detailed conversations on how things work, or could work in real world (drop from theory into practice and action).

we had to lay out our operating beliefs. Each person has a set of beliefs with which they move through the world. These are formed by their cultural, social, economic, and environmental (amongst others) experiences from birth, and they change as more experiences are added to the whole. A group joins their beliefs together creating a set of named or

We will face social and political storms we could not even imagine.

so many people wanting change, people who had walked completely different pathways to reach the same conclusion that they were willing to give their precious lifeforce to changing the systems of our time.

proliferating futures from a place of possibility, of multitudinous paths forward towards a shared dream.

One of our key roles, as social movements, must be to harness the shocks and direct the slides—all towards achieving the systemic, cultural and psychic shifts we need to navigate the changes with the greatest equity, resilience and ecological restoration possible.

“Nothing happens in isolation. There is always a squad, collaborators, a body that supports change occurring.” —Sage Crump

the actions that have had the most impact were uniquely suited to the time, place, and political conditions.