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Transform your personal life and catalyze lasting social change with the power of regenerative design. Burnout, discouragement, and overwhelm are inevitable patterns for changemakers, until we remember that we are creative, powerful agents who can shape our personal circumstances and exert influence on wider social systems. With regenerative design frameworks, align with your highest potential and design profound change in your personal life, organizations, and in the world around you. Regenerative Design for Changemakers is a compelling and accessible guide plus curriculum that calls changemakers to action by applying ecosystem intelligence and anti-oppression practices to their social impact projects. Taking a fractal approach, readers learn scaleable principles and frameworks to redesign their inner lives, relationships with others, and wider communities in accordance with regenerative patterns from the natural world. This guide covers: 45 social permaculture exercises that champion changemakers in replacing degenerative patterns with regenerative, life-affirming practices Justice-based frameworks and ecological principles to heal from racism and other forms of oppression A Social Design Lab for analyzing and designing one's own changemaking projects Group resilience frameworks, including project accountability buddies, implementation teams, and coalition- building. Regenerative Design for Changemakers is an essential guide for educators and higher education students, organizational changemakers, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders pursuing a regenerative future for the 21st century.

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Read Regenerative Design for Changemakers for the ideas here. There is some very very exciting rethinking. But read also for Dresdale's process of questioning 'groupthink' about subjects we hold near and dear in our society. Dresdale takes us to school on what we can no longer accept without reflecting. - Carol Sanford, CEO of The Regenerative Paradigm Institute and best selling multi-award winning author of The Regenerative Life, The Regenerative Business, and more Personal burnout, organizational challenges, and oppression issues frequently derail project planning efforts. Regenerative Design for Changemakers provides a unique contribution to the field of social permaculture, with an applied toolkit and valuable insights from Dresdale's professional experience to help redesign our lives and projects for fertile success. - Eric Toensmeier, author of The Carbon Farming Solution and co-author of Edible Forest Gardens, and former lecturer at Yale School of Forestry Regenerative Design for Changemakers and its companion course harnesses the social permaculture design process, mindfulness techniques, and creativity to support changemakers in designing holistic, regenerative plans for our social change projects and our lives. Read Abrah's book and find opportunities to train with her! - Naima Penniman, Program Director of SoulFire Farm, Co-Founder of WILDSEED & Climbing PoeTree So often I avoid books about environmental decline and climate change. Too scary, too heartbreaking, too overwhelming. But this guide combines hopeful inspiration, hands-on solutions, and user-friendly science that is accessible and relevant. Thank goodness for changemakers like Abrah Dresdale who are charting a path toward a livable future. - Elizabeth Lesser, Co-Founder of Omega Institute, and author of the New York Times bestseller, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow Regenerative Design for Changemakers provides an accessible toolkit of ideas, information, resources, self-reflection exercises and inspiration for surviving, thriving and building effective community projects in the chaotic and sometimes overwhelming times we live in. You'll want to dive right in. - Paul Kivel, educator, activist and author of Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice Regenerative Design for Changemakers was ahead of its time when it was created, but now it's right on time! It's a radical guide for deep systems change for creators, organizations, and changemakers looking to make a regenerative impact. It's a must read for creating a new future that works for everyone! - Erika Rose Santoro, Senior Director of Creative Strategy and Programming at Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health In Regenerative Design for Changemakers, Abrah draws upon the principles of permaculture and frames these in a compelling way to help evolve your leadership for transforming social systems. Accessible, comprehensive, and critically timely, this provocative handbook is for any change agent wanting to bring ancient wisdom to our modern challenges. - Dayna Baumeister, Ph.D, Co-Founder of Biomimicry Institute and Biomimicry 3.8, and Co-Director and Faculty at Arizona State University's Biomimicry Center

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Abrah Dresdale, MA, (she/her)-often called a force of nature-is a social designer, consultant, and educator. Named a New England Fixer by Grist Magazine, she is Co-founding Director of Regenerate Change and serves as Social Permaculture Faculty at the University of Massachusetts and Omega Institute. Abrah lives on a multi-familyfarm on occupied Mohawk and Lenape land in the Mahicantuck / Hudson River Valley, NY.Visit her website at abrahdresdale.com

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