Community Bookshelf

Microsolidarity practitioners take inspiration from many sources, we’re "standing on the shoulders of giants". Please add your favourite books & links to this list:

Theory

• Political metamodernism, as introduced by Hanzi Frienacht’s book The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics. See Rich’s intro to metamodernism here.

• An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization by Lisa Laskow Lahey & Robert Kegan

• The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups by Starhawk

• Community: The Structure of Belongin*g by Peter Block

• Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown

• The Chalice & The Blade and Nurturing Our Humanity by Riane Eisler

• The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber & David Wengrow.

• The Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jo Freeman.

• Reinventing Organisations by Frederic Laloux

Bodies of Practice

• Sociocracy, e.g. see Many Voices One Song: Shared Power with Sociocracy by Jerry Koch-Gonzalez & Ted J. Rau, or listen to this interview with Ted on the podcast Sowing the Seeds of Change

• Art of Hosting

• For communication practices like Authentic Relating, Circling, Collective Presencing, see the resources section of the Intentional Society website.

• Internal Family Systems

• Transactional Analysis

• Focusing by Eugene T. Gendlin

• Non Violent Communication (NVC)

• Mega library of facilitation techniques, curated by Session Lab, drawing from Liberating Structures, Hyper Island Toolbox, IDEO, Thiagi, etc...