Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation (Emergent Strategy Series Book 4)

by Adrienne Maree Brown

I believe that if you listen to the natural world, you will inevitably find your place in movements for social and environmental justice.

Emergent Strategy is fundamentally about how we get in right relationship with change, realigning with an indigenous worldview that understands the relationality of all things.

If we attend to nature’s lessons, we can remember that we, too, are nature; we can unveil our own organic gifts, our way to the future together, our path to thriving in this abundant world. Emergent strategy invites us to give up competing for death and begin collaborating with the planet and each other towards life.

Never a failure, always a lesson.

What you pay attention to grows.

We are constantly changing—the more ease we bring to how we change, and the more intention we bring to our daily lives, the more that change can serve our vision.

Cultures with long memories, still connected to their oldest ways, know that time is nonlinear, circular, mysterious.