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# 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*](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36107916-the-listening-society). See Rich’s [intro to metamodernism here](https://twitter.com/RichDecibels/status/1294300519847034880).
* [*An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization*](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25159550-an-everyone-culture) by Lisa Laskow Lahey & Robert Kegan
* [*The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups*](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12837878-the-empowerment-manual) by Starhawk
* [*Community: The Structure of Belongin\*g*](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2774428-community) by Peter Block
* [*Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds*](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29633913-emergent-strategy) by adrienne maree brown
* [*The Chalice & The Blade*](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/470367.The_Chalice_and_the_Blade) and [*Nurturing Our Humanity*](https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/45150709-nurturing-our-humanity) by Riane Eisler
* [*The Dawn of Everything*](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56269264-the-dawn-of-everything) by David Graeber & David Wengrow.
* [*The Tyranny of Structurelessness*](https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm) by Jo Freeman.
* [*Reinventing Organisations*](http://reinventingorganizations.com) by Frederic Laloux

**Bodies of Practice**

* **Sociocracy**, e.g. see [*Many Voices One Song: Shared Power with Sociocracy*](https://www.sociocracyforall.org/many-voices-one-song/) by Jerry Koch-Gonzalez & Ted J. Rau, or listen to this interview with Ted on the podcast [Sowing the Seeds of Change](https://anchor.fm/roz-savage/episodes/Ted-Rau---Sociocracy-for-All-e1a718s)
* [**Art of Hosting**](https://artofhosting.org/)
* For communication practices like Authentic Relating, Circling, Collective Presencing, see the [resources section of the Intentional Society website.](https://www.intentionalsociety.org/resources)
* Internal Family Systems
* Transactional Analysis
* [*Focusing*](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/666175.Focusing) by Eugene T. Gendlin
* Non Violent Communication (NVC)
* [Mega library of facilitation techniques](https://www.sessionlab.com/library), curated by Session Lab, drawing from [Liberating Structures](https://www.liberatingstructures.com/ls-menu), Hyper Island Toolbox, IDEO, Thiagi, etc...