adrienne maree brown emergent strategy shaping change changing worlds

Her years of dedication to facilitating change by partnering with life invite us to also join with life to create the changes so desperately needed now.' -Margaret Wheatley, author of Leadership and the New Science 'Necessary, vital, and timely.' -Ayana Jamieson, Octavia E. She refuses to give in to cynicism or despair, and this ability to dream wildly is part of why she can maintain such openness toward the idea of a better future.' - Colorlines 'Adrienne leads us on a passionate, purposeful, intimate ride into this Universe where relationships spawn new possibilities. This is what is so appealing about brown's work-she is almost hopelessly optimistic. It's a book for people interested in radical social change, who are willing to think expansively about what the future could look like, or are in need of help doing that kind of thinking. ' Emergent Strategy is a lyrical, explorative, non-linear journey. It is a manual for facing the most urgent crises of our time-environmental collapse, late capitalism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy-without drowning in the enormity of the task.' - Public Books 'If your survival kit has room for a book, you'd better reserve that space for Emergent Strategy. Rather than run from it or resist it, we should embrace it, look to what the plants, animals, and genomes can teach us about adapting to survive and to thrive.' - BuzzFeed Her philosophy, based on Octavia Butler's guiding philosophy of the Earthseed books, is that God Is Change. She is matter of-fact about the coming destruction we face-of our environment, of our resources, of our governments. 'It was a revelation to discover Adrienne Maree Brown's Emergent Strategy. Ritchie, author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color Brown not only inspires me to resist, but to do in the most beautiful, joyful, creative, sustainable, collective and effective ways.' Andrea, J.

'Emergent Strategy is an examination of where our movements have been and an offering of a framework for resistance that is rooted in the miracles of nature, decentralized, collective leadership, and personal, relational, organizational, and movement-wide transformation. Right now I can't think of better girding than Emergent Strategy.' - Detroit Metro Times Now is the time to gird ourselves for the fight for a new world. 'It is the end of the world as we know it, thanks to a lot of reasons.

Adrienne maree brown emergent strategy shaping change changing worlds