Duncan interviews Paul Engler, co-founder of the Center for the Working Poor, author of This is an Uprising, and co-founder of the Momentum training institute to equip young leaders to launch new movements. Momentum has trained thousands of people, and launched many movements, most famously Sunrise, a movement to stop the climate crisis.
They talk about Paul's lessons from the failures of his community, key concepts in launching movements and communities, and Paul's thoughts about starting a new institute for faith-based initiatives.
The interview has been edited for length and clarity. Here are links to many of the authors and books which Paul references:
Permaculturist and ecovillage pioneer Starhawk’s website and her book The Empowerment Manual
Momentum is the “training institute and community of organizers” which Paul co-founded with Carlos Saavedra. Here is their overview of frontloading and movement ecology
Ivan Marovic, Serbian organizer in the Otpor movement
Rory McEntee, Adam Bucko, and the Center for Spiritual Imagination
The Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault, Fr. Thomas Keating, James Finley, Matthew Fox
Fr. Richard Rohr’s writing on the cosmic egg
A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit
Books by Joanna Macy
Camphill communities
