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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
A book by adrienne maree brown that offers a nature-informed, complexity-aware approach to change—linking personal practice with movement-building and collective transformation.
Beloved Economies
A book by Jess Rimington and Joanna L. Cea that offers a practical vision of what work can look like when well-being, meaning, connection, and resilience are treated as core measures of success.
Active Hope Training
A free, video-based online course produced and presented by Chris Johnstone (co-author of Active Hope), with contributions from guests including Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown.
The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance
While gathering serviceberries among the birds, Robin Wall Kimmerer explores the ethics of reciprocity at the heart of gift economies.