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)
There are spaces in which every identity, oppression, and intersection can experience being the central focus, but every space cannot be that for every identity, or even aim for it. Otherwise, the seeds of alignment between people who are still learning each other and learning analysis will not get any air or water, will not grow.
adrienne maree brown • Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation (Emergent Strategy Series)
Take responsibility for your own feelings and actions.
adrienne maree brown • Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation (Emergent Strategy Series)
Small is good, small is all. (The large is a reflection of the small.) Change is constant. (Be like water.)5 There is always enough time for the right work. There is a conversation in the room that only these people at this moment can have.6 Find it. Never a failure, always a lesson.7 Trust the People. (If you trust the people, they become
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I believe that a safer space is a space where we have constructed the culture and the conditions where people can intervene in harm and violence without needing support from the facilitator.
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
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Invite them, continuously, towards their own vision, into their own rigor. Invite them to participate in their own liberation.
adrienne maree brown • Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation (Emergent Strategy Series)
Invite the room together to generate some community agreements, protocols of the shared space—often the passive aggressive person is someone who saw a need for a guideline or agreement that went unnamed, and is impacted by its absence.
adrienne maree brown • Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation (Emergent Strategy Series)
Audre Lorde said, “The true focus of revolutionary change is never merely the oppressive situations that we seek to escape, but that piece of the oppressor which is planted deep within each of us.”
adrienne maree brown • Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation (Emergent Strategy Series)
To get better results, to even imagine a true victory (a win that elevates our basic rights and needs out of the space of political debate), we must experiment with different strategies and tactics, different formations.