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

Stout, Linda

ISBN 10: 1605098825 / ISBN 13: 9781605098821

Published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collective Visioning: How Groups Can Work Together for a Just and Sustainable Future
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1605098825
• ISBN 13: 9781605098821
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Linda Stout is founder and director of Spirit in Action. She previously led the Piedmont Peace Project in North Carolina, which won the National Grassroots Peace Award, and is the author of Bridging the Class Divide.