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Everyone thinks they know what it means to be 'woke' - whether they're proudly declaring it, or angrily attacking it. But writer, political entrepreneur and psychosocial therapist Indra Adnan has written a comprehensive and necessary account of 'waking up' - to the realities of climate crisis, social breakdown, and personal agency - which implicates us all. In the internet era, no one escapes the global revolution of learning, connecting and mobilising and its entangled consequences. This reality demands a political response. But our current politics - led by squabbling parties and their exhausted ideologies - are clearly broken and dysfunctional. Only 2% of the UK electorate think it's worth the time or money to join a political party. How do we put the full spectrum of a consciously awakening humanity at the heart of society, economy and politics? As social bonds fray and the planet burns, a politics of 'waking up' is more urgently required than ever. Informed by decades of public advocacy, transformative work with both local and global communities, as well as her lifelong commitment to inner wisdom, The Politics of Waking Up lays out Adnan's practical, beautiful and urgent ways to redesign politics for an era of people power. Drawing on her years of political entrepreneurship as co-initiator of The Alternative UK, Adnan shares a compelling vision of a 'fractal' politics with an emphasis on new patterns of behaviour and viable prototypes of social progress that can be copied and replicated everywhere. She presents a coherent and radical alternative to our current socio-political turbulence. One that is there for the taking.

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'Invites us into a deeply personal conversation about how we can transform the world today to create a thriving society and planet. Indra Adnan's fractal approach to politics is a promising response to the fragmentation, polarization, despair, and disconnect that many people are feeling. This is democracy for the future, and it involves all of us, right here and right now. As Indra puts it, wanting is not enough: it needs organization. The book is full of real-world examples of our potential for quantum social change, and it wakes us all to what is possible.' Karen O'Brien, Professor of Human Geography, University of Oslo, Nobel Peace laureate with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in 2007 'Laying important groundwork for the political transformation we need ... Indra Adnan offers a penetrating analysis on the structural pathology of our current political system, which serves as a launching pad to explore the profound sociopolitical transformation beginning to take shape across the world. The book reorients us to a fundamentally different outlook on power dynamics, putting human agency and community at the heart of politics. With inspirational and illustrative examples from around the globe, Adnan introduces us to powerful new concepts such as fractal scaling, CANs and innovative forms of group decision-making which, taken together, provide the tools for occupying the future with a regenerative, life-affirming vision.' Jeremy Lent, Author of The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning and Requiem of the Human Soul 'A passionately informed book that opens your eyes to a brave new world. Indra Adnan's beautifully crafted radical manifesto provides hope for our troubled earth and broken politics with illuminating intensity. Of interest to all who are looking for a blueprint for our future. A hugely important addition to the current literature on social change, enabling us to reimagine and co-create the world we want to live in.' Marina Cantacuzino, Founder, The Forgiveness Project 'Powerful, provocative, brave and compassionate ... packed with cutting-edge ideas for how we can transform our politics, our relationships and ourselves, all while recognising that in the end this is one single endeavour. Drawing on her experience as both a psychotherapist and a political campaigner, Indra Adnan is perfectly placed to set out a new agenda that understands and acts on the feedback loops between our states of mind and the state of our communities and the world.' Alex Evans, Author The Myth Gap, Founder of Larger Us 'It is incredibly important that clear thinking emerges now to guide us through the maelstrom - The Politics of Waking Up does just that.' Peter Macfadyen, First Independent Mayor of Frome 'Even we who work for a radical transformation of human politics are challenged to emerge from a host of obsolete habits and presumptions. While brilliant men do sensemaking to abstract new principles and strategies to redesign governance, they miss that our current predicament is not a problem that can ever be figured out . So the most enlightened seem mostly ineffectual and irrelevant. We're blessed that a wise woman is coming to our aid in these pages, inviting us into relationship and listening deeply for our deepest needs and aspirations. ... not just brilliant and disarming, it's genuinely different. Instead of merely affirming hope, Indra Adnan provides it. She breaks genuinely new ground by sharing the living, embodied process of a new post-patriarchal political paradigm, the radical soft power of coming together humanly, to take care of our shared cosmolocal lives and future.' Terry Patten, author and founder of A New Republic of the Heart and co-author of Integral Life Practice

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Indra Adnan is co-initiator of The Alternative UK political platform which publishes The Daily Alternative, convenes new system actors and builds cosmolocal community agency networks (CANs). Indra is concurrently a psychosocial therapist, journalist and author. Through her work on international relations and soft power she has consulted to the World Economic Forum, the Indian and Danish governments, NATO, the Scottish Executive and the Institute of Contemporary Arts amongst others. www.indraadnan.global www.thealternative.org.uk

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