Collective Visioning
How Groups Can Work Together for a Just and Sustainable Future
by Linda Stout
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Pub Date May 09 2011 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
Description
Creating the World We All Want To Live In
It's an unfortunate fact of social organizing that, despite even the best intentions, groups convened to affect 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 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.
"To listen to
Linda Stout is to be inspired, to gain new hope that a fundamental
transformation of our culture is not only possible, but may be much nearer than
we expect."
-Dr. Ron Miller, President, New Visions Foundation
"This book encourages us all
that real love is about caring for all people, not just those who look and
sound like us."
-Reverend John H. Vaughn, Director, Twenty-First Century Foundation
"Stout has
suffered the fates, encountered troubles, and defeated them. In short, her life
has been devoted to a world of grace, peace, and beauty."
-Studs Terkel, author and radio broadcaster
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.
Available Editions
EDITION | Paperback |
ISBN | 9781605098821 |
PRICE | 17.95 |
PAGES | 240 |