Book Club
Reading through Conscious Tribes in a group? Here are some resources to enrich your experience.
Does this sound like you:
Conscious Tribes is written in the style of a conversation and is held together by telling stories. It is an easy read and it offers different things for different people.
For established Book Clubs, the book invites a conversation about the challenges each of us face every day, how we make sense of them and what we think we can do about them. It offers a way to bring the world into your living room in ways that keep the big connected to the small.
For tribes big and small, the book offers an opportunity for reflection. Our groups, organisations and campaigns are so often focused on making a difference that we can struggle to make time to think about what we are doing and find time to explore new ideas. Reading and reflecting on the book together presents a chance to share and digest, and to reconsider what is working and what could change.
Conscious Tribes identifies ways that we can think differently with the goal of us acting differently. These resources seek to help Book Clubs and tribes explore what that challenge might mean for them, providing reflective questions for each chapter as well as some starter suggestions for a ‘whole-of-book’ conversation that you can adapt.
In the resources below you’ll find…
Podcasts
We will share some of the conversations Amanda is having here, both in the media and with other tribes, in the hope it offers food for thought for your reflections.
Tools
We have included various Book Club reading guides and materials.
- We have a resource to help any and all Book Clubs introduce and explore the book as a whole, and to do so in ways that put into action some of the practices from Conscious Tribes.
- For tribes, we have a Tribe Book Club guide – with options and suggestions that can be tailored by you, based on your interest, challenges, experience and questions
- We also have provided reflective questions for each of the paradoxes, for individuals and/or tribes that want to do a deep dive (see below, this is action and reflection).
Next Steps
For people in tribes who are curious and interested to engage Amanda directly in this reflective work, there are a variety of opportunities outlined on the Community Page. If you join the email list you will get occasional updates. Amanda is also keen to support tribe’s reflecting on these ideas.
If you would like to chew over some of these ideas with her – and especially if you are wanting to think through ways of putting the ideas into practice – get in touch via the Contact Us page.
It doesn’t matter if your tribe is big or small. All we ask is that you have 15 or more people who are already reading the book and interested in a curious chat. She is hoping to be part of online chats like these from mid-September 2026.
Making a difference starts with me and my story: my political autobiography
Reflecting on what I care about and why.
A guide for Book Clubs
A few suggestions for running a book club about Conscious Tribes that puts its ideas into practice
Latest Media about Conscious Tribes
As the book launches we will provide links to writing, reactions and commentary. Interview with Rev Bill Crews on 2GB Sunday Nights Scroll down to find the conversation that explored how we need to make a difference but some of the challenges we encounter when we try. Interview: ABC NSW Saturday Mornings – Amanda Tatersall…
Action and Reflection: questions to sit with
Reflective questions to help us re-examine the connection between action and reflection in making a difference.
Curiosity and Judgement: Questions to sit with
Questions to help explore how curiosity and judgement shape how we relate to others and how we make a difference.
Sameness and Difference: Questions to Sit with
For tribes, book clubs or individuals wanting to think more deeply about what the paradox of Sameness and Difference might mean for them and how they make a difference, these questions offer a way into reflection.
Rethinking who we can make a difference with: book clubs
Ta-Neshisi Coates shows us that even a humble book club can make a difference.
