Collective Visioning: How Groups Can Work Together for a Just and Sustainable Future [Paperback]

It’s an unfortunate fact of social organizing that, despite even the best intentions, groups convened to effect positive change often fail to empower people from all backgrounds to speak up or to tap into a positive and inspiring collective vision. Longtime social justice crusader Linda Stout details a practical process that enables everyone—even those commonly marginalized—to work together with honesty, passion, commitment, and joy to create a positive, energizing, and sustainable vision and to make that vision a reality.

Stout shows, in practical terms, how to bring a group together, build trust, ensure that each and every voice is heard, create a positive vision, and develop an action plan that leverages everyone’s abilities to bring that vision to fruition. Used successfully by more than 120 organizations—and illustrated here by dozens of practical examples and exercises—this process creates hope for change, even among those who’ve stopped believing that change is possible. This comprehensive guide will serve as a template for anyone seeking to create a better, more just tomorrow.Preface
Introduction: Creating a Different Future
Chapter One: How Collective Visioning Works
Chapter Two: Laying the Groundwork for Collective Visioning
Chapter Three: Personal Visions
Chapter Four: Storytelling to Build Trust and Community
Chapter Five: Same Vision, Different Strategies
Chapter Six: Creating a Roadmap: Vision to Action
Chapter Seven: Grounded in Vision for the Long Haul
Conclusion: The Next Step: Hope, Vision & Action
Notes
Resources
Acknowledgments
Index
About Spirit in Action
About the Author“To listen to Linda Stout is to be inspired, to gain new hope that a fundamental transformationlÓ(