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This book is a great resource on facilitation, especially conscious facilitation. It also offered a lot of perspective on mediation, which is not a role I've ever stepped into. It was helpful to have a job that entails a lot of facilitation while reading this book, where I was able to reflect on the facilitating I am currently doing and how it could be improved. I found this book did become repetitive towards the end, reiterating and re-expanding on points made in earlier sections of the book. N...
A deep dive into the why and the how of facilitating groups. Multiple contributors.
The Black Feminist Wisdom essays are incredible, particularly Malkia Devich-Cyril's on grief. The later portion of the book serves as a continuation of Emergent Strategy with accessible resources and inspiration to further integrate this type of being in the world into your own life and institutions. A helpful resource that will find it's place on my desk.
As I prepare for a season of anti-racism trainings in the church, this was a fantastic book to help think about how I bring my self and my privilege into a facilitating role in a healthy and boundaried way.
For facilitators who want to sink into justice, spaciousness, transformation, mediation, and Black feminist wisdom. Practical and aspirational. Lots of highlighting and page flagging.
i am grateful for amb’s adept mind and deliberate offerings to folks in movement spaces. this is a useful follow up to emergent strategy (which i would def recommend folks read first) that offers applications to group work that i sorely needed. the section on Black feminist wisdom was a gorgeous offering. i thought the second section that applied emergent strategy to different facilitation tactics could have been structured better — i would have grouped facilitation separately from mediation, as...
This is a tough book for me to rate. I'm not a facilitator or mediator, though I would like to increase my skills in those areas. Much of the advice seems solid, but I don't have the experience to really say. Its tough for me to dig through all the ancestor talk and building alter descriptions. I skimmed a bunch. The best parts of the book are the essays not written by brown. I read this just after my sister died and Malkia Devich-Cyril's essay on grief will be something I come back to in partic...
definitely gleaned takeaways.
I am a couples and family therapist - this book obviously wasn't aimed at me but I found some parts to be very helpful to my work. It also sparked many interesting conversations about what *wasn't* translatable or applicable to talk therapy and why.For such a small book, it took me quite a while to get through! I often found myself only getting through one sentence then staring off into space thinking about what it could mean for me (in a good way!).
This book was such a gift. It gave me such hope and left me filled with curiosity, joy, and I inspiration. While this is a book about facilitation and mediation I feel that there are valuable lessons that can be received by all readers. Lessons on how to listen, observe, and generate and accept change. I’m so grateful that it was written.
Very glad to have this resource.
Gave it 4 stars rather than 5 primarily because the book is less for a general audience. For those who are interested in the critically important work of facilitation, 5+ stars. I read it for a chapter I am writing on skillful ways to navigate conflict - and this is loaded wisdom.
You gotta love a book that displays wisdom that is so far beyond where you are currently at that your head explodes a bit. Thankfully adrienne maree brown speaks/writes in such a way that there is plenty of accessible wisdom regardless of where I’m at. There are so many great thoughts and suggestions for holding space for change. And like me, she seems to be a convert to Earthseed. God is change. Shape God.This quote is bouncing through my head like a pinball as I finished and reflect: “We are a...
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I'm so thankful to have read this resource as I step into a facilitation role in my workplace. There are so many nuggets of wisdom in here that I wish I read this sooner but I'm also so glad I read it right now. This book is a resource for facilitators (defined in the book as people who hold space for others) on helping to shape and create meaningful spaces for groups. This book does use adrienne maree brown's book Emergent Strategy as a backdrop, but there is a lot uncovered and shared in this
This book was not really for me. It's written well and, as always, adrienne maree brown drops hella wisdom, but it didn't speak to me where my life is right now.
Super solid guide to facilitation, one that I wish I had when I was doing a lot of facilitation work. There's some practical knowledge here on agendas and scheduling, but mostly a theoretical framework to guide facilitation that puts the emphasis on the group rather than the individual.
Very good book, will be very useful for facilitators and mediators. Because the advice is specific it is less generalizable. A few sections spoke to me, but not all. Regardless, I'm glad I read the book in its entirety and have a feeling that I will come back to it as a reference throughout my life.
honestly, so far i only watched adrienne's ig lives (i think 6 interviews) on this book - which was incredible!!! i am glad to have it and hope to dive into it properly soon!
“The presence of difference in this phase of human history, unfortunately, and too often, leads to harm. Difference is, quite probably, the main thing we need to get comfortable with, and good at, if we hope to survive as a species. We are an ecosystem, being told we should be a monocrop. We have some inkling that this bad advice is costing us everything, but so far the majority of us are not convinced enough to take urgent action. Facilitating across difference might be the most urgent work we
