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
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.
Imagination: A Manifesto
A book by Ruha Benjamin that argues for imagination as a collective, political capacity, essential for moving beyond “default” futures and designing more just alternatives.
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.
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.
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.
Braiding Sweetgrass
A book by Robin Wall Kimmerer that weaves Indigenous teachings and Western science to reimagine our relationship with the living world.
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 Seed
An online learning program by New Room (Danièle-Jocelyne Otou and Erin Willett) focused on inclusion, equity, power, and belonging.
A Leader’s Perspective on Reconnecting with Our Creative Selves through Seasonal Work Cycles
A reflection on how an organization can push back against “urgency culture” by structuring the year around seasonal work cycles, with explicit periods for pausing, debriefing, and creative rest.
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.
Introductory guide to social economy
The most comprehensive reference tool for understanding the social economy, developed by le Chantier de l’économie sociale.