Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

by Adrienne Maree Brown

To find the full protocol and principles for A4BL, visit: a4bl.wordpress .com. 103 Learned from Cinna, at Extreme Energy Extraction Summit, a twice yearly gathering of communities resisting extreme energy extraction around the globe. 104 I learned these tools from Autumn Meghan Brown, whose work can be found at www.iambrown.org. She is also interviewed on consensus and other things earlier in this book. 105 When getting started with this method, or if working with a large group, I recommend using a system called fist-five for voting, where people use their hands or call out a number from zero to five to indicate their level of agreement with the proposal. Anything less than a five calls for some discussion, and you move a proposal forward if the participants are all above a three, or above a four, depending on the nature of your group. See additional resources for this in the documents accompanying this book at alliedmedia.esii. 106 This person should figure out work they can do solo that contributes to the movement :) 107 “Get thee behind me Satan!” 108 You can find additional resources and visuals for consensus decision making at http://i.imgur.com/FEEpW.png. 109 You can book workshops at https://www.alliedmedia.org/octavias-brood/booking. 110 You imagine yourself in the future (set a date that people can imagine—twenty years out, say), walking to work, and you see a newspaper. You pick it up and the headline is celebrating the work of your organization/group/movement. R...