Full Description
None of us are free until all of us are free—overcoming systemic oppression through transformative group work.
The Work That Reconnects has helped countless individuals to move through denial and despair into meaningful, collaborative action. This essential guide is ideal for those seeking to deepen this work by addressing systemic racism, injustice, and oppression.
Rooted in the deceptively simple premise that none of us are free until all of us are free, Coming Together in the Great Turning represents a decade-long interrogation and expansion of the revolutionary practices of the Work That Reconnects. Powerful contributions from practitioners:
Address the false split between environmental and social justice and identify the common roots of human rights abuses and ecological destruction
Explore how intersectional systems of oppression manifest in group settings and provide strategies for shifting these dynamics to interconnected systems of support
Demonstrate how to move beyond "-isms" and identity politics toward true diversity, equity, inclusion, allyship, solidarity, collective liberation, and a "Just Transition"
Share powerful perspectives, teachings, exercises, and rituals drawn from the practical experience of facilitators worldwide
Offer specific guidance for creating safer spaces and expanding cultural competency through anti-oppressive and trauma-informed facilitation.
This vital resource is required reading for facilitators and participants, change agents and activists, visionaries, and anyone who feels pain for our world and is committed to catalyzing change for a just and thriving world.
Contents
Foreword
Preface - Diversity Welcome to Readers
Introduction
Part I: Context
Chapter 1: Updated Overview of the Evolving Work That Reconnects
Chapter 2: From Interlocking Systems of Oppression to Interconnected Systems of Support
Chapter 3: A Critical History of the Work That Reconnects - Phases of Development
Chapter 4: Work That Reconnects Evolving Commitment to Social Justice Over Time
Part II: Expanding the Frame, Deepening Awareness, Shifting Patterns of Harm
Chapter 5: Expanding the Work That Reconnects with an Undoing Oppression (or Collective Liberation) Commitment
Chapter 6: Seeing and Addressing Patterns of Harm Part 1
Chapter 7: Seeing and Addressing Patterns of Harm Part 2
Chapter 8: Queering the Work That Reconnects
Part III: Anti-Oppressive Facilitation
Chapter 9: Anti-oppressive Facilitation Checklist
Chapter 10: Trauma Awareness, Skills, and Approaches to Group Facilitation
Chapter 11: Addressing ISMs in Workshop Spaces
Part IV:- Cultural Integration
Chapter 12: Cultural Integrity
Chapter 13: Reconectando
Part V: Going Forth in Today's World
Chapter 14: Shocks and Slides
Chapter 15: The End of the World, for Whom? An Afrofuturist & Afropessimist Counter Perspective on Climate Apocalypse
Epilogue
Appendices
Facilitator Assessment Framework
Proposal for Giving and Receiving Feedback About Harm
Example of Anti-oppression Informed Community Agreements, Guidelines, Container
Acknowledgments
