Holding Change

The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation (Emergent Strategy Series, Book 4)

De: adrienne maree Brown

Narrado por: Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Autumn Brown, adrienne maree brown

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

©2025 adrienne maree brown (P)2025 AK Press

Insightful and lovely to listen to

I love AMB’s work so much and this book is no exception. I often facilitate in movement spaces. The insights and information in this book was super valuable to learn, including different types of behaviors in groups and how to address them. I especially love the focus on finding people’s strengths and the commitment to abolitionist and Black feminist praxis. Super recommend this book as well as all of AMB’s work!