Emergent Strategy
Adrienne Maree Brown
This book has been foundational to the work of RAIL. The pandemic amplified the importance of looking towards the wisdom natural systems and non-hierarchical models for leadership and ideas that do not neatly fit into the dominant structures.
As our world is shifting so quickly , it is important to become comfortable with the process of uncertainty. This book provides many models and and tools with which to do this.
Working with Stories
Cynthia F Kurtz
Cynthia’s thinking is absolutley incredible. Her work focusses not only on the power of story collection but more importantly on the incredible information we can gather about a culture, organization or system if we enable the people in the system to work with their own stories.
The more beautiful world our hearts know is possible
Charles Eisenstein
This book works with idea that the story that our current systems are strutured around is the “story of separation”. The pandemic again has amplified this phenonmenon.
This books asks us to imagine a new way of being, the story of connection. The ideas in this book echo much indigenous wisdom and honours other ways of knowing.