Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, this book invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order to better understand and influence them as they happen. This is a resolutely materialist "spirituality" based equally on science and science fiction, a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us.

adrienne maree brown, co-editor of Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements, is a social justice facilitator, healer, and doula living in Detroit.

Self-transformation and social transformation are inextricably linked in this how-to for living the life you want to be living every day, while building the world you want to inhabit.
The result of "emergent strategy" workshops adrienne has been holding for years, this book has a built-in audience like (and overlapping with) the following she and Walidah Imarisha built for Octavia's Brood.

Table of Contents:

Introduction

What is Emergence?

a complex movement
------Lineage

Elements of Emergent Strategy
- Adaptation (with Intention, Life Towards Life)
- ------Sci-Fi Grounding
- Transformative Justice
- ------Sci-Fi Grounding
- Interdependence
- ------Sci Fi Grounding
- ------interdependence is iterative
- Nonlinear/Iterative
- ------Sci Fi Grounding
- Fractals
- ------Sci Fi Grounding
- Creating More Possibilities
- ------afrofuturism and #blackspring
- Practices
  - Somatics
  - Facilitation
  - principles of emergent processes in facilitation