The Weaver's Way

"...one of the most remarkable, beautiful , practical, and inspiring books on community-based change I've yet to encounter."
—Margaret Wheatley, author Leadership and the New Science and Who Do We Choose to Be?

Fires, floods, the rising cost of living, and increasing inequality. In The Weaver’s Way, Corrina Grace argues that the sense of safety and security that those of us in the West carry is a dangerous illusion. And the only way forward toward a more certain future is to throw off that illusion, rethink our understanding of how change happens, and find new tools for social change in the world around us.

But not just any approach will work. Whether it’s in the aftermath of a natural disaster or in the daily lives of those living in marginalized communities around the world, it’s become clear that the business-as-usual approach to change—change that makes a real difference—isn’t sustainable. Based on Corrina’s first-hand experience, social impact strategy is most successful when ordinary people are empowered to come together and weave their communities back together.

Drawing from those experiences, The Weaver’s Way provides a blueprint for shaping change that harnesses our deep inner instinct for connection and caring. Inspired by the intergenerational legacy of Guatemalan women weavers, The Weaver’s Way calls for all of us to come together, pick up the threads, and become Weavers.

The Weaver’s Way proposes that we toss out the traditional changemaker playbook and try a new approach. Instead of providing a prescriptive pattern to follow, however, the book gives you the basic techniques—the stitches—to create your own pattern. These are the tools for change you can use whether you want to be a changemaker in your immediate community or you’re working towards transformative leadership in the formal social entrepreneurship and innovation sector.

A weaver and facilitator of transformative leaders, organisations, movements, and ideas, Corrina is a socially-driven entrepreneur, engineer, hybrid thinker, and sustainability leader. She has a masters degree in social innovation for sustainable development and has spent fifteen years as a practitioner living and leading in Central American communities facing extreme environmental degradation and economic poverty.

She is the cofounder of a UNESCO award-winning organisation, SERES, where she serves as a board member and senior advisor.

An internationally recognized facilitator, Corrina has worked with communities and organisations in Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, and Latin America.

She brings an engineer's love for solving problems, a pioneering spirit, and an entrepreneurial mindset to everything she does, along with a deep and unwavering commitment to justice and equality for people and the planet.