What follows is an excerpt from Exploring the contours of systems change: Weaving insights across Illuminate offered by IlluminateThis is a reflective piece authored by the Learning Weaving team at…
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Storytelling and Networks: Building Collective Power for Justice
LaToya’s reflections on storytelling and networks is part of Network Weaver’s BIPOC Editorial series. Learn more about the series and our submissions guidelines here. We invite you to connect with us…
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Find a River: What the Waters Teach About Change and Challenge
Last week I had the opportunity to hear a talk given by Kari Kastango, who is the first person known to have swum the length of the Connecticut River. She was…
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Impact Incubator Partnerships & Collaboration Insights from the Field
I ended up in Bangkok, by accident, earlier this year in May. It was the type of trip where the universe conspires to place you where you’re meant to be. I…
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Building Resilient Communities
Iyanuoluwa Moyinoluwa Shittu’s reflection on building resilient communities is part of Network Weaver’s BIPOC Editorial series. Learn more about the series and our submissions guidelines here. We invite you to connect…
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Receiving Love and Care: A Liberatory Practice
“It’s not possible to let love and care flow freely and sustainably to others, or to engage—from the level of one’s very being—in equitable, love-based system change if there are…
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Who got time for deep community?
Or: How do we weave thriving communities when everyone is stretched thin?I recently was asked, what the biggest challenge is to having thriving communities. My answer? Time.Nobody got time for…
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Navigating the Workplace as a Future Ancestor: Two Lessons for Leaving Behind a Legacy of Care
Yoo-Jin Kang’s reflection on leaving behind a legacy of care as a future ancestor is part of Network Weaver’s BIPOC Editorial series. Learn more about the series and our submissions…
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The Wisdom of Cicadas
In their beautiful piece, “The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era,” authors and long-time organizers Neha Mahajan and Felicia Griffin name the current context that so many…
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Responding across the system
We need to address the complexity gap in climate responses.To tackle complex challenges, we know we need to go from disjointed isolated responses, to coordinated multi-point strategies – or from…
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