The Four Pivots
Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves
by Shawn A. Ginwright, PhD
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Pub Date Jan 25 2022 | Archive Date Nov 11 2021
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Description
For readers of Emergent Strategy and Dare to Lead, an activist's roadmap to long-term social justice impact through four simple shifts.
We need a fundamental shift in our values--a pivot in how we think, act, work, and connect. Despite what we’ve been told, the most critical mainspring of social change isn’t coalition building or problem analysis. It’s healing: deep, whole, and systemic, inside and out.
Here, Shawn Ginwright, PhD, breaks down the common myths of social movements--a set of deeply ingrained beliefs that actually hold us back from healing and achieving sustainable systemic change. He shows us why these frames don’t work, proposing instead four revolutionary pivots for better activism and collective leadership:
Awareness: from lens to mirror
Connection: from transactional to transformative relationships
Vision: from problem-fixing to possibility-creating
Presence: from hustle to flow
Supplemented with reflections, prompts, cutting-edge research, and the author’s own insights and lived experience as an African American social scientist, professor, and movement builder, The Four Pivots helps us uncover our obstruction points. It shows us how to discover new lenses and boldly assert our need for connection, transformation, trust, wholeness, and healing. It gives us permission to create a better future--to acknowledge that a broken system has been predefining our dreams and limiting what we allow ourselves to imagine, but that it doesn’t have to be that way at all. Are you ready to pivot?
A Note From the Publisher
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Advance Praise
“Reading this courageous book feels like the beginning of a social and personal awakening. By weaving together social science, storytelling, and his vast experience, Shawn explains why justice and healing are inextricably connected and how we can shift our thinking to create wholeness in our world and in ourselves. I can't stop thinking about it.”
—Brené Brown, PhD
“In this important new book, Shawn Ginwright calls upon us to take four pivots that can enable us to engage in deep reflection about our actions and experiences so that we can lead happier, healthier and more meaningful lives. Reinforced by personal anecdotes that help the reader to understand how and why change is needed, this book can serve as a guide for individual and collective transformation if readers are willing to engage in the work Ginwright describes. Funny, thought provoking, and at times painful, Ginwright has created an invaluable resource for those who seek to grow, evolve and make a difference in the world.”
—Pedro A. Noguera, PhD, Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean of the USC Rossier School of Education
“The Four Pivots is a guide for those of us who believe loving toward racial justice is a worthy endeavor. It is a salve for those of us who know we cannot fight against the powerful forces maintaining racialized capitalism without seeding the ground with the dreams, joys, and promises of what we will become when we all belong. And it is a clarion call for movement leaders who know we need new ways of doing our work that replace exhaustion for laughter, uncertainty for curiosity, and rage for love.”
—Carmen Rojas, PhD, president and CEO of the Marguerite Casey Foundation
“Shawn Ginwright’s book illuminates a needed path for our racially divided, COVID-wracked nation to move from a place of sobering pessimism towards what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis referred to as The Beloved Community. He thoughtfully unpacks this pathway as a staged journey, where each of us as individuals—and within the institutions we occupy—can translate one’s lived experience into the sharing of story, human connectedness, and concerted action in service of full inclusion.”
—Robert K. Ross, MD, president and CEO of The California Endowment
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781623175429 |
| PRICE | $20.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 272 |
