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.
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- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
A collection of essays and speeches by Audre Lorde on racism, sexism, homophobia, and power, bringing together lived experience and analysis in an uncompromising voice.
Active Hope
A book by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone offering a motivating approach to meeting today’s crises, grounded in creative power and collective action.
Loving Corrections
A book by adrienne maree brown on practising correction with both care and rigour to build relationships that can hold truth.
Hospicing Modernity
A book by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira that invites readers to face the limits and harms of modernity, and to develop more responsible, relational ways of learning and “world-making.”
My Grandmother's Hands
A book by Resmaa Menakem on racialized trauma and how it lives in the body, offering pathways toward repair grounded in the nervous system and in relationship.
The Body is Not An Apology
A book by Sonya Renee Taylor that frames radical self-love as a social justice practice, challenging body shame and the systems that produce it.
What My Bones Know
A memoir by journalist Stephanie Foo on her experience with complex PTSD, how it shows up in the body, and what healing can look like in practice.
The Body Keeps the Score
A book by psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk that explores how trauma can shape both brain and body, and outlines a range of recovery pathways.
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
A book by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski that explains why women experience burnout differently than men, and offers a science-based roadmap for completing the stress cycle and reducing emotional exhaustion.