Changemakers

Fay Weller is a community organizer, homesteader, researcher, and artist. She has focused on broad systemic change in her work and activism, and holds a PhD focused on social transformation. Fay loves the creative spark when working on new community ideas that increase ecological and just choices for citizens. She is engaged in numerous collaborative initiatives from a local bus service to sustainability planning, to affordable, low-impact heating. She nurtures, grows, and sells apples, eggs, and vegetables, and creates clothing from handmade fabrics. Fay has two adult children and a granddaughter. She and her partner Bob live on their Gabriola Island, BC farm with Yu and Mi, their two sheep, and numerous chickens. Mary Wilson has a longstanding interest in learning and communication for social change. She has worked for two decades as a facilitator, instructor, researcher, and instructional designer, and holds a Ph.D. in education. As a student of Buddhism, Mary is fascinated by the Boddhisatvas – metaphorical enlightened beings who embody wisdom, compassion, and practice. She sees the combination of wisdom, compassion, and practice as central to learning, and central to our collective efforts to live in harmony on our finite planet. An active participant in her Gabriola Island, BC community, Mary lives with her partner, her 92-year-old mother, and several critters. She and her partner are simultaneously caring for her mom, restoring a ramshackle island home, developing a permaculture food forest, and building an engineless catamaran.

Preface

SECTION A: CHANGEMAKING
1. A Tale of Egg and Agency


2. Transformation


3. Learning Change


4. The How of Change

SECTION B: STORIES AND REFLECTIONS
5. Sowing the Seeds of Change
      Thinking about Food Systems
      Changemakers' Food Stories

6. Walls and Roofs
      Thinking about Shelter
      Changemakers' Shelter Stories


7. Moving Forward
      Thinking about Transportation
      Changemakers' Transportation Stories


8. There is No Away
      Thinking about Waste
      Changemakers' Waste Stories


9. People Power
      Thinking about Energy
      Changemakers' Energy Stories


10. Cooperative Economics
      Thinking about Economics
      Changemakers' Economic Stories


11. From Analysis to Activism

SECTION C: CHANGEMAKERS' MANUAL

Introduction
      Session 1: Transformative Spaces
      Session 2: Learning Change
      Session 3: The Genesis of Ideas
      Session 4: From Spark to Action
      Session 5: Cross Purposes and Spirals
      Session 6: Linking with other Changemakers
      Session 7: Societal Change

Facilitation Techniques

References
Index
About the Authors
About New Society Publishers