What stimulates change?
When we celebrate our victories, we increase our sense of agency and our incentive to do more. When we feel empowered and impactful, we can be more effective in making a world of greater justice.
21. Agency Part Four: How Groups Create Agency, and Checklist
The world, the values of the world, are shaped by the choices each of us makes. Which means my thinking, my actions, my relationships, and my life create a front line for the possibilities of the entire species. Each one of us is an individual practice ground for what the whole can or cannot do, will or will not do.
Adrienne Maree Brown • Murmurations: Returning to the Whole
“Transform yourself to transform the world
adrienne maree brown • Emergent Strategy
Changemaker funds
mail.google.comWith the systems-emergence model, a general operating grant might be tied to a partner who shares an interest in systemic change, is values-and vision-aligned, and is working in adaptive ways.
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How do systems change? How can we move towards the just communities we need and want?
The natural process of ecological replacement highlights two mechanisms at work in replacing a dominant the landscape and seems too big to change.
Succession relies in part on incremental change, the slow, steady replacement of that which does not serve ecological
... See moreFor humans to be in right relationship, we must practice accountability—being intentional about how we take up space and resources, attending to our role in the world and our impact on others, shaping what we can touch, and being able to repair and set boundaries, especially as conditions change.
Murmurations: A New Beginning Dawns
Systems-emergence solutions are nonlinear and decentralized; change requires finding places to experiment within subsystems to shake them up and cause ripple effects (Boulton et al., 2015). Systems-emergence work does not attempt to describe the characteristics of a healthy system, but it often does describe the outcomes the system should be able... See more
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Systems emergence
André Gide that says “One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”