I gather them here with the expectation that they will grow. In the study and practice of emergent strategy, there are core principles that have emerged and that guide me in learning and using this idea and method in the world.

Offer instructors an opportunity to invigorate curriculum with vital issues and community conversation.Ĭommunity Reads aims to inspire dialog about important issues facing our diverse campus communities. Join campus community members as we engage with hands-on activities and discuss themes from the book.

Promote engagement with thoughtful, noteworthy works of literature or scholarship related to issues of equity and social justice across the UWB/CC campus and community.

Build community through a common intellectual experience.

Our goals for the Community Reads program are to: 'Principles of Emergent Strategy' (scroll down to see the Principles, beneath the author bio).'Fractals' - chapter two of Emergent Strategy, by adrienne maree brown Use your UW NetID to access this material in Canvas.We highly recommend reading prior to the event: UW Bothell and Cascadia College students, faculty, and staff are invited to a discussion of Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown. But what begins as a fight for survival soon leads to something much more: the birth of a new faith. Precocious and clear-eyed, Lauren must make her voice heard in order to protect her loved ones from the imminent disasters her small community stubbornly ignores. In a society where any vulnerability is a risk, she suffers from hyperempathy, a debilitating sensitivity to others' emotions. Fifteen-year-old Lauren Olamina lives inside a gated community with her preacher father, family, and neighbors, sheltered from the surrounding anarchy. When global climate change and economic crises lead to social chaos in the early 2020s, California becomes full of dangers, from pervasive water shortage to masses of vagabonds who will do anything to live to see another day. Butler 'pairs well with 1984 or The Handmaid's Tale' (John Green, New York Times)-now with a new foreword by N. Butler This highly acclaimed post-apocalyptic novel of hope and terror from award-winning author Octavia E. Community Reads: Spring 2016 | Between the World and Me.Community Reads: Fall 2016 | Citizen: An American Lyric.Community Reads: Winter 2018 | On Tyranny.

Community Reads: Spring 2018 | So You Want to Talk About Race.

Community Reads: Fall 2018 | When They Call You A Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir.

Community Reads: Winter 2019 | Heart Berries: A Memoir.

Community Reads: Spring 2019 | Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds.

Fall 2019 | Freedom is a Constant Struggle.

Winter 2020 | Freedom is a Constant Struggle.

Spring 2020 | Freedom is a Constant Struggle.

2019-20 | Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement.

Emergent strategy shaping change