we are in the future | adrienne maree brown
image credit: Shadia Fayne-Woods here are my written notes for the keynote i gave this past weekend to the North American Students of Cooperation Institute. it was an amazing group to speak with,...
View Articleon the road again | adrienne maree brown
image credit: Shadia Fayne-Woods i have been traveling a lot [these] past few weeks. the ruckus camp was incredible, and then i was at web of change up off the coast of british columbia, which was...
View Articlereimagining organizing, movements & leadership
image credit: Shadia Fayne-Woods this past weekend was reimagining organizing, movements and leadership in detroit. once we heard that author and thinker margaret wheatley was going to be in kalamazoo...
View Articleadrienne maree brown | why bother?
image credit: Shadia Fayne-Woods written in response to a friend who was asking about the point of integrity if the human race is on a downward spiral: wow. this is a lot. i’ve been thinking about this...
View ArticleOrganizing or Mobilizing
image credit: morguefile.com There are important differences between organizing and mobilizing. For social change to be effective, each one is needed. Clarifying these two concepts helps us see the...
View Articleadrienne maree brown | sabbatical your life (workshop report back from AMC 2012)
image credit: Shadia Fayne-Woods i have recently returned from a 6-month community-supported sabbatical. i am feeling healthier and happier now than i have ever felt in my adult life. i say that as...
View ArticleSimple Tools, Powerful Possibilities
image credit: Vangelis Thomaidis Recently, one of the staff at the Interaction Institute for Social Change (IISC) was surprised to discover the possibility of creating change with a few simple tools. A...
View Articleadrienne maree brown | american revolutionary
image credit: Shadia Fayne-Woods i assert my solutions as the living embodiment of my nationality… i’m testing that statement out. for a long time, most of my conscious political life, i have not...
View ArticleAncestral Pride at the BC Legislature | Warrior Up Or Get The Hell Out of the...
In this video Gaaiwna Crow and Queen Sacheen speak bluntly about the problems facing Native American and non-Native American folks. They call special attention to the neglect of the environment and...
View Articleadrienne maree brown | some of our blog favorites
image credit: Shadia Fayne-Woods Here are some of our favorite 2012 blog posts from adrienne maree brown. In them she talks about creating inner change, about Obama and the importance of practicing...
View Articleadrienne maree brown | thoughts for foundations and major donors
image credit: Shadia Fayne-Woods in my work as an organizational healer, facilitator, and coach, i regularly support, both formally and informally, lots of movement leaders. one of the major trends...
View Articleadrienne maree brown | coevolution through friendship
coevolution is “the change of a biological object triggered by the change of a related object.” a couple of years ago i hosted a community of practice. one of the outcomes of our year of building...
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