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Approaches to connect personal healing with systemic change.
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The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves – Shawn A. Ginwright
We need a fundamental shift in our values–a pivot in how we think, act, work, and connect. Despite what we’ve been told, the most critical mainspring of social change isn’t coalition building or problem analysis. It’s healing: deep, whole, and systemic, inside and out.
Holding Change – Adrienne Maree Brown
This book is a practical guide to bringing emergent strategy ideas, practices, and principles to life in the work of holding people and organizations through processes of change.
Four Pivots — IRL Book Club Discussion Facilitators Guide
A sample book club facilitators discussion guide for “The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves” by Dr. Shawn Ginwright, specifically covering Awareness, the first of the four shifts he describes as necessary ingredients for personal and social transformation.
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown
A guidebook for getting into the right relationship with change, using our own nature and that of creatures beyond humans as our teachers.
