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Book Club: Brown

10/19/2020

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Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
By Adrienne Maree Brown

Our author this week, Adrienne Maree Brown, says that “the world is full of beauty, magic, miracles, and patterns that induce wonder.” Well, so is this book. She writes with the flare of a lightning bug, illuminating one thought before taking an artful swoop to the next idea. The reader is invited to engage nonlinearly--to find their way through these pages however makes most sense to them. I was struck by the amount of pleasure I experienced, reading at my own pace with my own curiosities, and the amount of artistry it takes for an author to facilitate an embodied experience through written words. If you are looking for facilitation tools for workshops about climate. If you are seeking solace before the election. This is a book for you. “This is...a book about the preciousness of time. It’s limited and it’s so sacred, friends. And everything we do, every single thought and action and relationship and institution, everything is practice ground.”

"Emergence is our inheritance as a part of this universe; it is how we change. Emergent strategy is how we intentionally change in ways that grow our capacity to embody the just and liberated worlds we long for.”

Would you like to engage with our book club further? Leave a comment here or email gail@thekaleidoscapes.org.
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Book Club: All You Can Save Reading Circle

10/14/2020

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Our next Book Club Recommendation comes with a special way to get involved over the next 10 weeks. See below for a chance to join our Circle with Artistic Director, Gail Tierney. Our All We Can Save Circle begins Saturday Oct 17, at 11am Eastern.
Featured Book:
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

For the next few weeks, I’ll be approaching Book Club with an exciting opportunity for further engagement! This book is hot off the press from the dynamic duo of Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson, and it is chock-full of wisdom from over 40 women and girls of all different backgrounds. It combines essays, poetry, art and encouragement from climate leaders all across the country. A book like this deserves to be read in community.

So! I’ve agreed to organize a reading group as an All We Can Save Circle Leader. Which means that I’m hoping to gather a group of people with diverse perspectives who would like to read at a slower pace, over the course of 10 weeks with discussion along the way. The editors will be sending me facilitation tools, media, and more info. And I’ll be giddy because I respect them with all my heart. You can learn more about the momentum behind this groundbreaking anthology at their website, https://www.allwecansave.earth/, and Circles are starting this week throughout the States.
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If you’re even a little bit interested, sign up for The Kaleidoscapes’ All We Can Save Circle mailing list by emailing me at gail@thekaleidoscapes.org to say “I’m in!” Whether you’d like to read, co-lead the discussions with me, or simply learn more, I’d love to hear from you. While this book features women and femme voices, please know people of all genders are invited to participate. I’ll plan to continue sharing book recommendations on our Field Notes blog while I do a deep dive on this particular read. If you see this information a few weeks later, still feel free to join the Circle!

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