Critical Connections: Visionary Organizing and Moving Beyond the Master’s Tools

Visionary Organizing is capable of creating genuine, lasting change because it assumes that all people are capable of transforming and growing under the right conditions. Visionary Organizing nurtures critical connections and creates transformative conditions by using the tools of the collectively transformative components of Visionary Organizing: Imagining New Possibilities, Affirming Dignity, and Experimenting WIth Transformation. 

Visionary Organizing offers a humanizing vision of what a community or organization can look like and attracts people to that vision by affirming their dignity rather than instituting an organizational change and implementing change management strategies or going into communities to educate, agitate, and organize. As a result, lasting change created by Visionary Organizing comes from experimenting with how people and groups transform rather than experimenting with how to control individuals and groups.