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This Book (Creating) Club has been a private moderated community of practice to discuss blog posts, provide feedback on draft chapters, and share personal experiences of working with the habits that form the core of the book. If you're not already a member and would like to participate (and get emails about club activities including Zoom calls), please sign up here.

After a year of energetic, generous, and thought-provoking conversations (visible in the hundreds of comments on these now-closed blog posts and Google Docs), the book is now in production and will be published by Berrett-Koehler on April 8, 2025. You can pre-order it here.

We'll be updating this web page to shift from supporting a Book (Creating) Club to supporting a Book (Using) Club, and will send an announcement to club members when these new activities start. More fun ahead!

You can contact us by email here.

P.S. Adam has illustrated this page with photos of some of his favourite food fridge magnets.😀

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Adam Kahane

Adam Kahane is a Director of Reos Partners, an international social impact company that helps people move forward together on their most important and intractable issues.

What do we need to continue, start, and stop doing?

On our second pair of Book Club Zoom calls, in December 2023, we discussed our experiences with the day to day actions involved in transforming systems.

Draft of the complete text of the book

Here is a Google Doc of first draft of the complete text of "Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems."

What is the emerging message of this book?

On our third pair of Book Club Zoom calls, in February 2024, we talked about the "big idea" of this book.

Preface, Introduction, and Habit 1 (Version 2)

Here is a next draft of the first three chapters of the book.

Summary and list of habits (Version 1)

This short new Google Doc contains a summary of the core hypothesis of the book and a tentative list of seven habits. Now is the time I most need your feedback, as I am not yet confident about this list!

What everyday habits of systems transformers have we observed?

On our second pair of Book Club Zoom calls, in December 2023, we discussed our experiences with the day to day actions involved in transforming systems.

Preface (Version 1)

Here is a Google Doc of first draft of the preface/introduction of "Everyday Habits of Systems Transformers."

Radical collaboration to transform social systems

A new article entitled "Radical Collaboration to Transform Social Systems: Moving Forward Together with Love, Power, and Justice" that offers a possible foundation for the book.

What role should a system's victims play in transforming it?

A conversation with Francisco de Roux, chair of Colombia’s Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence, and Non-Repetition.

Three ways to understand systems transformation

A note on three distinct ways people look at systems, how they get transformed, and the actions they see as important to effecting transformation.