Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation (Emergent Strategy Series)
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Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation (Emergent Strategy Series)
Let people know there is enough time for them, for their feelings and needs to be met, for their future to be shaped.
adrienne maree brown • Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation (Emergent Strategy Series)
Invite the room to visualize from what is to what is changing. Here are a few short scripts for guided visualizations:
adrienne maree brown • Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation (Emergent Strategy Series)
What if we can only do one thing as a group?
adrienne maree brown • Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation (Emergent Strategy Series)
What does our community most need right now? And how do we know that?
adrienne maree brown • Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation (Emergent Strategy Series)
In a coalition/alliance space, possibilities can get truncated because core values are either not aligned or are being actively transgressed. People should not be asked to contort to a breaking point in order to maintain an alliance. Make room for trainings or skill shares in aspects of the group’s core values or identities that must be respected i
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Open with some framing—what is larger than ourselves that we are accountable to? Community, politic, organization, beliefs, value? Refer to this greater thing if folks get too caught up in just their own story/needs. Remind people that their wellbeing is a part of those greater things if they start to lose themselves completely in a collective worl
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How many of us won’t even attempt forgiveness or mediation, but still claim to be abolitionist?
adrienne maree brown • Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation (Emergent Strategy Series)
Aim to create containers that account for the reality of injustice, that unveil power dynamics and name oppression, but reach beyond those immature phases of human development to allow complex, dynamic, and healing relationships.
adrienne maree brown • Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation (Emergent Strategy Series)
emotionally, too often, we use the presence of identity and inevitable identity-based harm to storm away from the table, slam our door, and rage-tweet, rather than staying involved in the collective work.