What is the Shaping Change Workbook you might ask?

Whether you’re looking at personal or systemic change, you could probably use some new approaches and strategies to make it LESS hard, LESS alone and LESS forced. 

Check out the workbook for questions and guiding principles (inspired by Emergent Strategy) to help you navigate this time a little bit easier.

In this nearly 20 page workbook, you will explore your relationship to change, zoom into how you show up in your daily life, change what’s not working for you and develop intentional practices around trust, resiliency, interdependence, failure and time. 

Here's a preview of the principles that will ground your reflection and exploration:

• Small is good, small is all. The large is a reflection of the small.
• Change is constant. Be like water.
• There is always enough time for the right work.
• Never a failure, always a lesson.
• There is a conversation in the room that only these people can have. Find it.
• Move at the speed of trust.
• Trust the People. (If you trust the people, they become trustworthy...or boundaries become clear.)
• Less prep, more presence.
• What you pay attention to grows

Emergent Strategy was documented by adrienne maree brown in 2017 as a framework to "shape and generate complex systems and patterns through relatively simple interactions”. This framework rests on a lineage in Black Feminist Wisdom, biomimicry, Octavia E. Butler’s science fiction work and social and environmental justice movements.