Collective Visioning: How Groups Can Work Together for a Just and Sustainable Future (Paperback)

Paperback. It's an unfortunate fact of social organizing that, despite even the best intentions, groups convened to effect positive change often fail to empower people from all backgrounds to speak up or to tap into a positive and inspiring collective vision. Longtime social justice crusader Linda Stout details a practical process that enables everyone-even those commonly marginalized-to work together with honesty, passion, commitment, and joy to create a positive, energizing, and sustainable vision and to make that vision a reality.Stout shows, in practical terms, how to bring a group together, build trust, ensure that each and every voice is heard, create a positive vision, and develop an action plan that leverages everyone's abilities to bring that vision to fruition. Used successfully by more than 120 organizations-and illustrated here by dozens of practical examples and exercises-this process creates hope for change, even among those who've stopped believing that change is possible. This comprehensive guide will serve as a template for anyone seeking to create a better, more just tomorrow. Features a step-by-step process to set up and create a welcoming space for activist leaders to collaborate for positive change. This title details ways in which trainers should reach out to different groups, listen to and understand needs and concerns of the group, create a welcoming space for all voices. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…