Regenerative Design for Changemakers: A Social Permaculture Guide by Abrah Dresdale

Burnout, discouragement, and overwhelm are inevitable patterns for changemakers, until we remember that we are creative, powerful agents who can shape our personal circumstances and exert influence on wider social systems. With regenerative design frameworks, align with your highest potential and design profound change in your personal life, organizations, and in the world around you.

Regenerative Design for Changemakers is a compelling and accessible guide plus curriculum that calls changemakers to action by applying ecosystem intelligence and anti-oppression practices to their social impact projects. Taking a fractal approach, readers learn scaleable principles and frameworks to redesign their inner lives, relationships with others, and wider communities in accordance with regenerative patterns from the natural world.

This guide covers:

• 45 social permaculture exercises that champion changemakers in replacing degenerative patterns with regenerative, life-affirming practices
• Justice-based frameworks and ecological principles to heal from racism and other forms of oppression
• A "Social Design Lab" for analyzing and designing one's own changemaking projects
• Group resilience frameworks, including project accountability buddies, implementation teams, and coalition- building.

Regenerative Design for Changemakers is an essential guide for educators and higher education students, organizational changemakers, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders pursuing a regenerative future for the 21st century.

Abrah Dresdale, MA, (she/her)-often called a force of nature-is a social designer, consultant, and educator. Named a New England Fixer by Grist Magazine, she is Co-founding Director of Regenerate Change and serves as Social Permaculture Faculty at the University of Massachusetts and Omega Institute. Abrah lives on a multi-familyfarm on occupied Mohawk and Lenape land in the Mahicantuck / Hudson River Valley, NY.Visit her website at abrahdresdale.com