Scaffolding for System Shifting Networks
Networks come in all shapes and sizes. However, if you want to be a system shifting network you will need to put in place scaffolding so that transformation can emerge…
Collective Impact ~ System Shifting Network Approach
People frequently ask “How do network approaches differ from Collective Impact? Actually, Collective Impact, with a few modifications, can be a system shifting network approach which can increase its long…
System Shifting Networks
Not all networks are the same! If you are interested in transforming systems so that they are good for everyone, then you are probably helping people co-create a System Shifting…
SHIFTING A SYSTEM: The Reimagine Learning network and how to tackle persistent problems
Some problems are simply too big for any one organization. One solution: a network of like-minded leaders working toward a common goal. Reimagine Learning, taking on systemic education issues, offers…
Transforming Impact : how evaluation and impact are shifting
Given the complexity and depth of the world’s problems, evaluation theories, practices and processes are shifting to better respond to that complexity. The argument goes something like this: problems in…
A Dialogue: How Impact & Evaluation are Shifting
A lively dialogue between trailblazers in networks & systems change on how we can re-conceptualize our approach to evaluation & impact We all know we’re doing it wrong. Creating outcomes…
Power dynamics: A systemic inquiry
Why this article? Purpose and position The word power keeps popping up wherever I turn. Through my ten years of doing my doctorate action research it was all over my…
Storytelling to Enable Systems Thinking
For a long time I developed models and inflicted them on other people. Fortunately, due to the interaction with others, it became apparent that it made more sense to become…
Communication Ecosystem
A new downloadable free item is up on the Network Weaver Resources page. One of the most critical support structures for networks is a well-thought out communications ecosystem – a…
June Holley’s Network Weaving Institute
June Holley has created a new entity, the Network Weaving Institute, so that you can easily track and collaborate in her writing and set up time for consultations with her….