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This Book Club is a private moderated community of practice to support two sets of activities.

The first  is to contribute to co-creating useful books. Over 2023-2024, we worked on "Everyday Habits for Transforming Systems." 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), this book is now in production and will be published by Berrett-Koehler on April 8, 2025. You can pre-order it here.

Over 2024-2025 we will be working on a second edition of "Collaborating with the Enemy, which will be published in November 2025. You can give your feedback on the first edition, including about your own experiences with working across differences, by filling in this survey. As before, all substantial contributors will be acknowledged by name in the printed book.

The second set of activities is to contribute to these books being used. Here is a second survey to get your input on how to get "Everyday Habits" into the hands of people who would find it useful. 

If you're not already a member of this Book Club and would like to participate (and get emails about club activities including Zoom calls), please sign up here.

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.

Rethinking

Here is a a paper with my first ideas on what needs to be re-thought in by 2017 book "Collaborating with the Enemy."

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.