The Estuaire library
We created this library to bring together the resources that nourish our practice and inform the way we work. Here you'll find articles, podcasts, tools, and poems that have guided us – and continue to guide us – as touchstones and sources of inspiration throughout our journey.
Tags
- apprentissage & humilité 23
- co-construction & participation 3
- facilitation & concertation 7
- gouvernance partagée 2
- imagination & exploration 9
- innovation sociale 4
- mesure d’impact 2
- pluralité des savoirs 4
- stratégie 3
- systèmes & interdépendance 13
- territoire & relations 9
- transparence & responsabilité 8
- économie sociale 3
- équité & justice sociale 17
ALOK: The Urgent Need for Compassion
A conversation from the Man Enough Podcast with ALOK on what compassion changes in practice: our language, our reflexes, and how we make room for diversity.
Diversité d'Abord : Racism in the nonprofit sector in Quebec
A research project by the Centre for Community Organizations (COCo), conducted from 2016 to 2024, examining racism in Québec’s community sector.
A River, Briefly Parallel to an Eight-Lane Super Highway
A poem by Matthew Olzmann. The river doesn’t justify itself: it moves, meets something larger than itself, and continues on.
Quand je ne dis rien je pense encore
A poetry collection by Camille Readman Prud’homme about those moments in conversation when what we want to say stays inside, as it feels too uncertain or too “strange” to share.
Esprit de quartier
A podcast by the CMTQ which highlights neighbourhood initiatives and local actors that work to strengthen community life.
Trabian Shorters — A Cognitive Skill to Magnify Humanity
This episode of On Being with Krista Tippett with Trabian Shorters explores a crucial narrative and relational skill that has us noticing and naming the strengths of people and communities before anything else.
Emergence Magazine — Podcast
A podcast from Emergence Magazine, led by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, offering stories and conversations on ecology, culture, and our relationship with the living world.
Laissez-nous raconter : L’histoire crochie
In this podcast hosted by Innu poet Marie-Andrée Gill, Indigenous Peoples take back the talking stick to tell their own side the story.
Green Dreamer
A podcast hosted by Kaméa Chayne exploring ecology, social justice, and more relational ways of living through conversations with authors, researchers, and practitioners.
Journal of Radical Permission
A guided journal by Sonya Renee Taylor and adrienne maree brown, designed as a daily companion for following your soul’s calling and supporting a learning-and-healing journey.
Apprendre à nous écrire : Guide & politique d'écriture inclusive
This guide presents inclusive writing in French, the main approaches in practice, and the social, linguistic, and political issues at stake.
A Developmental Evaluation Companion
A guide that introduces the concept of developmental evaluation and explains how to use it to learn and adapt in complex projects.
CommunAgir pour emporter : Les outils d'animation
A resource bank by CommunAgir that provides guidelines and ready-to-use activities to facilitate discussions and strengthen collective action in a given area.
Liberating Structures
A library of facilitation methods designed to make group conversations more participatory and effective, even (or especially) at scale and in complex contexts.
The Metrics Café: A Guide to Bring Funders and Grantees to the Table
A guide by MIT D-Lab for facilitating conversations about impact measurement between funders and grantees, so that expectations and decisions are better aligned.
New Ways of Working Playbook
A playbook created by Mark Eddleston that brings together practical ways to collaborate and organize day-to-day work in teams.
Me and White Supremacy: A Guided Journal
This Me and White Supremacy guided journal accompanies the book of the same name, written by Layla F. Saad.
It offers a 28-day journey of reflection to challenge racist reflexes and behaviours and begin an anti-racist journey.
all about love
A book by bell hooks that reframes love as a practice and an ethic, not just a feeling, making clear links between love, justice, and healing.
Feminist City: A Field Guide
A book by Leslie Kern on how urban planning and everyday life in cities are experienced differently depending on gender, class, race, and ability, and on what a differently designed city could look like.