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Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation

by Adrienne Maree Brown

Facilitation as a practice of relationship

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Facilitation as a practice of relationship

Holding Change connects facilitation and mediation with the ongoing work of navigating coordination, conflict, and relationships. Adrienne Maree Brown draws on more than twenty years of work with movement groups, framing these practices across individual, interpersonal, and organizational settings. The book also brings in contributions from nine collaborators, placing Black feminist perspectives in conversation around how people can support change while remaining attentive to themselves and one another. Its central concern is not a fixed state of harmony, but the evolving work of shaping how people relate as they work toward change.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • People who facilitate or mediate groups and organizations
  • Readers interested in Black feminist perspectives on collaboration and social change
  • Those exploring conflict, coordination, and interpersonal relationships

Themes

Facilitation and mediationBlack feminismConflict and coordinationRelationships and social change

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Book overview

In our complex world, facilitation and mediation skills are as important for individuals as they are for organizations. How do we practice them in ways that align with nature, with pleasure, with our best imagining of our future? How do we attend to generating the ease necessary to help us move through the inevitable struggles of life? How do we practice the art of holding others without losing ourselves? Black feminists have answers to those questions that can serve anyone working to create changes in our world, changes great and small; individually, interpersonally, and within our organizations.

Holding Change is about attending to coordination, to conflict, to being humans in right relationship with each other, not as a constant ongoing state, but rather as a magnificent, mysterious, ever-evolving dynamic in which we must involve ourselves, shape ourselves and each other. The majority of the book is sourced from brown's twenty-plus years of facilitation and mediation work with movement groups.

Includes contributions by Autumn Brown, Sage Crump, Malkia Devich-Cyril, Ejeris Dixon, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Prentis Hemphill, Micky ScottBey Jones, N'Tanya Lee, and Makani Themba

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