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' Emergent Strategy offers a pattern language and nonlinear playbook for waging love in dark, uncertain times. Savor and enjoy!' – Elissa Perry, Management Assistance Group 'Drawing on sources as varied as poetry, science fiction, forests, ancestors, and a desired future, Emergent Strategy speaks with ease about what is hard and brings us into that ease without losing its way. ' Emergent Strategy.reminds us, directly and by example, that wonder (which at its heart is love), is the foundation of our ability to shape change and create the world we want.' – Alta Starr, leadership development trainer at Generative Somatics 'A word/heart sojourn through the hard questions.' – Makani Themba, facilitator for the Movement for Black Lives 'adrienne has challenged me, enlightened me and reminded me that transformation happens in our natural world every day and we can borrow from it strategies to transform ourselves, our organizations, and our society.' – Denise Perry, Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD)

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

'adrienne leads us on a passionate, purposeful, intimate ride into this Universe where relationships spawn new possibilities. 'Necessary, vital, and timely.' – Ayana Jamieson, Octavia E. 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.

Adrienne maree brown emergent strategy shaping change changing worlds