Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

by Adrienne Maree Brown

At its most fundamental, facilitation is the art of making things easy, making it easier for humans to work together and get things done.

Among other things, love is an energy of possibility: the possibility of wholeness, in a Platonic understanding.

We learn to be quiet, polite, indirect, and submissive, not to disturb the status quo.

anti-nurturing

I want a future where we are curious, interested, visionary, adaptive.

What are the practices you need to line your life up with your values and beliefs?

Trust is built when the right people are in the right room, and can bring their opinions and work into a container that advances their individual and collective goals.

There is a conversation in the room that wants and needs to be had. Don’t force it, don’t deny it. Let it come forth.

When people agree to work, but don’t really understand it or support it, they slowly become a counterforce—doing the work slowly, or without their full positive attention, or explicitly sabotaging the work. A bit more clarity on the front end builds trust and alignment within the group.