The Weaver's Way: What an Ancient Art Can Teach You about Your Approach to Shaping Change
Do you look at the world around you and wonder where we've gone so wrong? Then it's time to get involved in making it a better place. However, if you want to make a positive social impact, you need transformative leadership. There are too many examples in the world that show that the traditional changemaker playbook isn't working, that those who make the decisions that can change people's lives for the better need a new approach to social impact strategy. The Weaver's Way: What An Ancient Art Can Teach You About Shaping Change proposes just such an approach for the social entrepreneur.
Inspired by the way a Guatemalan weaver approaches the art of bringing separate strands together to create strong, beautiful textiles, The Weaver's Way is the changemaker's book you need if you're interested in social entrepreneurship and innovation that is sustainable. It invites you to think about how change happens and whether the approach you've been taking or have read about in other social enterprise books is really the most effective for the community that you're working in. It explores the sociology of change and suggests tools for social change that you may find useful in your journey.
The Weaver's Way is a practical guide for how to be a changemaker without being prescriptive. After all, just like every new textile the weaver creates, every situation where you might want to see social change is unique. There isn't one pattern that fits all but the basic principles--the stitches and techniques--that the book explores are universal, whether you're in Guatemala or Australia, Malaysia or Botswana, or in the United States.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu said, "Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world." As a sustainable business book, The Weaver's Way is an inspiring and thought-provoking read not only for those working in the formal change sector but also for anyone wanting to make those small changes in their community that may end up changing their world.
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A weaver and facilitator of transformative leaders, organisations, movements, and ideas, Corrina is a socially-driven entrepreneur, engineer, hybrid thinker, and sustainability leader. She has a masters degree in social innovation for sustainable development and has spent fifteen years as a practitioner living and leading in Central American communities facing extreme environmental degradation and economic poverty.
She is the cofounder of a UNESCO award-winning organisation, SERES, where she serves as a board member and senior advisor.
An internationally recognized facilitator, Corrina has worked with communities and organisations in Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, and Latin America.
She brings an engineer's love for solving problems, a pioneering spirit, and an entrepreneurial mindset to everything she does, along with a deep and unwavering commitment to justice and equality for people and the planet.
"Masterful, powerful, transformative. The Weaver's Way is a must read. It transports you to an inner and outward journey of this complex world we live in, empowers you through the privilege of meeting and learning from wonderful characters who are true leaders with powerful leadership, humility, and vulnerability lessons to share. It exposes you to enlightening practical exercises that will deepen your knowledge of your soul and help you re-shape your destiny and impact. Most importantly, it reminds you how our art is our salvation, how humanity is interconnected, and how we can only survive crisis and challenges and make sustainable change as a collective."
-Chadia El Meouchi Naoum, Aspen Global Leadership Network
"Strategies for the healing our world needs today. If you are searching for a book that guides you towards collective leadership, you will find it in the stories in The Weaver's Way."
-Louise Tarrier, Carbon Positive Australia
"...one of the most remarkable, beautiful, practical, and inspiring books on community-based change I've yet to encounter."
-Margaret Wheatley, Leadership and the New Science and Who Do We Choose to Be?
"Through storytelling and reflection, The Weaver's Way offers us a path of liberation-leading us toward connectedness and collective well-being. It is much-needed medicine for our challenging times."
-Akaya Windwood, Windwise LLC & past president, Rockwood Leadership Institute
"Brilliant, moving, and inspiring."
-Wendy Palmer, Leadership Embodiment
"...a map, field guide, and practical how-to to create the future we are all craving for. A practical primer for those stepping into their everyday leadership and those who with the prompt of a great question will step over the threshold and find themselves leading. For those more comfortable in their leadership skins, you will find stories to encourage you and remind you that you too are part of a tidal wave of leaders transforming the world."
-Moira Were, Order of Australia Recipient (AM)
