What I’m Reading

I tend to read in circles. In circles around a topic I’m exploring and circularly revisiting the same books again and again. I never quite know where any given stack is leading me when I start. I’m simply listening, following that curiosity, and letting the patterns emerge later.

Here’s the current stack I’m exploring around wholeness, power, and non-pathologizing facilitation.

A photos of my current reads book shelf that shows a colourful line up of book spines (titles listed below!) propped up on the left side by an old blue and white plant pot.

Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown

The Right Use of Power by Cedar Barstow

Living in the Power Zone by Cedar Barstow & Reynold Ruslan Feldman

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Anam Cara by John O’Donohue

A Hidden Wholeness by Parker J. Palmer

Holding Change by adrienne maree brown

Practicing New Worlds by Andrea J. Ritchie

The Heart Aroused by David Whyte

Here’s the previous stack I was exploring around systems thinking (how do all parts serve a whole?), complexity science (complex does not equal complicated! life isn’t linear!), and organizational development (what patterns can we see & what do they tell us?).

A corner of my bookshelf with six books standing upright. To the left you can see a glimpse of my Matryoshka dolls and a ceramic plate I made. To the right you can see a handwritten card tucked between the right-most book and the bookcase.

Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein

How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell

Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown

Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows

Sand Talk by Tyson Yunkaporta

Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux

Have a recommendation for me? Please share.