num_pages: 272
description: For readers of Emergent Strategy and Dare to Lead an activist's roadmap to long-term social justice impact through four simple shifts.We need a fundamental shift in our values--a pivot in how we think act work and connect. Despite what weve been told the most critical mainspring of social change isnt coalition building or problem analysis. Its healing: deep whole and systemic inside and out.Here Shawn Ginwright PhD breaks down the common myths of social movements--a set of deeply ingrained beliefs that actually hold us back from healing and achieving sustainable systemic change. He shows us why these frames dont work proposing instead four revolutionary pivots for better activism and collective leadership:Awareness: from lens to mirrorConnection: from transactional to transformative relationshipsVision: from problem-fixing to possibility-creatingPresence: from hustle to flowSupplemented with reflections prompts cutting-edge research and the authors own insights and lived experience as an African American social scientist professor and movement builder The Four Pivots helps us uncover our blind spots. It shows us how to discover new lenses and boldly assert our need for connection transformation trust wholeness and healing. It gives us permission to create a better future--to acknowledge that a broken system has been predefining our dreams and limiting what we allow ourselves to imagine but that it doesnt have to be that way at all. Are you ready to pivot?
language: English
title: The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves
publisher: ‎North Atlantic Books