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 tools, 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 justice 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, and consultants pursuing a regenerative future for the 21st century.
Abrah Dresdale, MA, is a visionary and bold educator, curriculum designer, and consultant in social regeneration and prison food justice. She serves as Permaculture Faculty at the University of Massachusetts and Omega Institute and is Founding Director of Regenerate Change. She lives in culturally vibrant Western Massachusetts with her beloved husband.
About the Author: Abrah Dresdale, MA, is a visionary and bold educator, curriculum developer, and culture-shift consultant. She guides changemakers in activating their potential and facilitates organizations and institutions to align their practices, programs, and cultures with the values and visions they promote. She has worked in the fields of local food systems, prison higher education, prison food justice, social permaculture, and Jewish earth-based traditions. Abrah serves as Permaculture Faculty at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and at Omega Institute for Holistic Studies. She is Founding Director of Regenerate Change, an organization that trains changemakers, organizations, and networks in social regeneration and justice. She holds a master's degree in Sustainable Landscape Design. As a spoken word artist and cultural worker, she believes in the power of imagination to shape our collective future and catalyze global healing. Abrah lives in Western Massachusetts, a crucible of social innovation, with her beloved husband.
