Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute

Work

Mediation Resources is a simple crowdsourced free directory of people willing to hold conflict in movement.

Mediation is the work to hold people through conflict, disagreement, misunderstanding or relationship change. It can be legally mandated, but for the purposes of this document we are just speaking about community efforts to intervene on and support community through these moments of dissonance.

In 2020, we posted a call for mediators, and from the responses we began this resource. We are thrilled by just how many people want to support conflict and tension in movement spaces! We cannot vouch for each person, but we are trusting the good intentions of each person making their offer and including all of the information they shared.

This is a living document primarily populated thru comments, so if you want to update your information or add yourself, there’s a link within the resource to do so.

We have partnered with @_beamorg to identify Black mediators and there is a link in the resource to go and add yourself to the Black mediation directory which lives on their site.

Book Testimonials

“This book is fucking gorgeous. And brilliant. It reminds me of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands.”
– Morgan Mo Willis

“All my friends are reading Adrienne Maree Brown’s new book Emergent Strategy, and we talk over and over again about how we can’t know what a new world will look like, how we are crafting it on the run.”
– Leora Fridman, Entropy

“If you haven’t read it yet, get it. Immediately. Emergent Strategy is an examination of where our movements have been and an offering of a framework for resistance that is rooted in the miracles of nature, decentralized, collective leadership, and personal, relational, organizational, and movement-wide transformation. Brown not only inspires me to resist, but to do in the most beautiful, joyful, creative, sustainable, collective and effective ways.”
– Andrea J. Ritchie, Bustle

“Emergent Strategy is so amazingly awesome. I have admired your work for a long time and so was so excited when I saw this book. I am encouraging my Women’s Studies students to read it. Thank you for sharing your wisdom. Be well.” – Beth Berila

“The text has had a tremendous impact on my organizational facilitation lens.”
– Michael Tekhen Strode

“adrienne maree brown is transforming me page by page. I’m deeply grateful to adrienne maree brown and excited to gift my copy to a younger person (as recommended by the brilliant author).”
– Matsuda Riku