Recommended Reading

Learn and grow from those that have come before us.

Resources

Library is open-source: Feel free to suggest some others that have substantially helped you along your journey.

Regenerative Systems' Change

• Future Humans Trilogy by Anneloes Smitsman and Jean Houson - This movement and the Regenerative Renaissance is mentioned in the series

• The Commons Social Change Library

• Iroquois Great Law of Peace

• The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk - A beautiful rendition of Regenerative Civilizations

Consciousness Expanding

• Book “Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World” by Tyson Yunkaporta

• Book "Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in without Going Crazy" by Joanna Macy

• Book “The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible” by Charles Eisenstein

• Book “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer

• Book “The Ministry for the Future” by Kim Stanley Robinson

• Book "The Ministry of Utmost Happiness" by Arundhati Roy

• Book “The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life's Perfection” by Michael Alan Singer

• Book "Manual for the Peacemaker: An Iroquois Legend to Heal Self" by Jean Houston

• Archives Buckminster Fuller

Social & Economic Design - Thinking as a Whole Community

• Book “Non-Violent Communication: A Language of Life” by Marshall B. Rosenberg

• Free Workshop Nonviolent-Communication-Workshop: Marshall Rosenberg
• Book "Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist" by Kate Raworth

• Book "The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" by David Graeber & David Wengrow

• Book “Governing the Commons” by Elinor Ostrom

• Book "Sacred Economics" by Charles Eisenstein

• Book “The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom” by Don Miguel Ruiz

• Book “A Different Drum - Community Making and Peace” by M. Scott Peck

• Book “Creating a Life Together” by Diana Leafe Christian

• Book “Many Voices One Song: Shared Power with Sociocracy” by Jerry Koch-Gonzalez and Ted J. Rau

• Book “Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High” by Patterson, Kerry, Grenny, Joseph, McMillan, Ron, Switzler, Al, Roppe, Laura

• Book “Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.” by Brené Brown

• Book “Change Here Now: Permaculture Solutions for Personal and Community Transformation” by Adam Brock

• Talk "The Power of Vulnerability" by Brene Brown
• Book "The Surprising Power Of Liberating Structures: Simple Rules to Unleash a Culture of Innovations" by Henri Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless

• Book "Debt: The First 5,000 Years" by David Graeber

Ecological Design - Thinking as ecology to mirror our systems from

• Book “Permaculture: Principles and Pathways Beyond Sustainability” by David Holmgren

• Book “Biomimicry” by Janine Benyus Book “Thinking in Systems: A Primer” by Donella H. Meadows

• Book “Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World” by Paul Stamets (Mirroring Mycology)

• Book “Designing Regenerative Cultures” by Daniel Christian Wahl

Organisational Design - Thinking as social and coordination systems

• Book “Punished by Rewards” by Alfie Kohn Book “Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness” by Frédéric Laloux

• Book “Better Work Together” by many authors, edited by Susan Basterfield, Anthony Cabraal

• Book “We the People: Consenting to a Deeper Democracy” by Buck, John, Villines, Sharon (A Guide to Sociocratic Principles)

• Book “The Empowerment Manual: A Guide for Collaborative Groups” by Starhawk

• Book “Green Swans: The Coming Boom In Regenerative Capitalism” by John Elkington

• Book “Exponential Organizations: Why New Organizations are Ten Times Better, Faster, and Cheaper Than Yours (and what to Do about It)” by Michael S. Malone, Salim Ismail, and Yuri van Geest

• Book “The Regenerative Business: Redesign Work, Cultivate Human Potential, Achieve Extraordinary Outcomes” by Carol Sanford

• Library of Decentralised Patterns
• Book “Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society” by Eric Posner and Glen Weyl

• Book “More Equal Animals - The Subtle Art of True Democracy” by Dan Larimer

Human Design - Bio-Hacking / Designing the self / Flow States

• Book “Self Organisation Counter-Economic Strategies” by Will Bradley, Mika Hannula, Cristina Ricupero, Superflex

• Book “Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones” by James Clear

• Book “Recapture the Rapture” by Jamie Wheal

Regenerative Movement Building

• Book “Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything” by Becky Bond and Zack Exley

• Book “The Infinite Game” by Simon Sinek