Welcome to the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute

The Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute is a hub to experiment, think, facilitate, learn and share emergent strategy. ESII builds movement capacity to create a more just and equitable world through facilitation, training, coaching, and strategy development.

Welcome to the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute
The Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute is a hub to experiment, think, facilitate, learn and share emergent strategy. ESII builds movement capacity to create a more just and equitable world through facilitation, training, coaching, and strategy development.
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The Emergent Strategy Podcast

The official podcast of ESII – we dive deeply into the life, practice and experimentation of a person or group who we see as living embodiments of emergent strategy. Hosts are Sage Crump, Mia Herndon and adrienne maree brown.
Emergent Strategy asks how we get in right relationship with change, and can we refine our strategies to align with the constantly changing conditions of our complex society?

Visit our store for Emergent Strategy and other related texts!

Grab a copy of one of these texts from the Emergent Strategy series and dive deep into the political lineage and varied explorations of emergent strategy. Your soon to be well-worn copy will open your imagination and broaden your practice as you engage new possibilities.

ESII Trainings

ESII offers multi-day facilitation and mediation trainings to grow our collective capacity for transforming the conditions of our society. ESII trainings hold the emotional, spiritual, and physical needs of the people alongside intellectual rigor, curiosity, and a commitment to equity and justice. This makes room for the whole person to show up with their vulnerability, growing edges, and strengths while transferring these skills to participants. Being vulnerable awakens us to our interdependence and strengthens our longing for a world that can hold each of us with care, skill, and grace. This is what we are striving to awaken in people’s longing, imagination, and work. Trainings are both a public offering and can be organized for smaller groups.

Supporting Movements to Get in Right Relationship With Change.

Through facilitation, coaching, immersions and tailored engagements, ESII helps groups, organizations and movements bring the principles and elements of emergent strategy – which include intentional adaptation, interdependence and decentralization, fractal thinking, transformative justice and resilience – into their work.

What is Emergent Strategy?

Emergent Strategy is a humble philosophy, a way to acknowledge the real power of change, and be in the right relationship to it. Its intent is to deepen relationships, build trust, and political alignment.
Emergent strategy practices strengthen imagination and the capacity to think beyond the limitations of socialization – beyond competition, beyond binaries, and beyond linear, short-term outcomes.

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About ESII

Emergent Strategy invites activists and organizers to engage with two distinct yet interconnected sets of concepts.

Intercommunal Engagement

A global network of emergent strategy practitioners .

Local Engagement

Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute is committed to fostering local emergent strategy experiments.

Resources

Publications, Videos, and other resources for practicing Emergent Strategy.