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The Promise of Co-Design

29AugFebruary 1, 2019 By Ari Sahagún and June Holley

Co-Design Series Part 2 THE WHY Co-design is a process that guides a group of people through various iterations of coming together to create something. This something might be a…

Self-organizing is perhaps the most important and least understood aspect of System Shifting Networks. There are many scientific definitions of self-organizing but they are hard to wade through. After 20…

Communication Ecosystem

24AugJanuary 31, 2019 By June Holley

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…

Three Ways To Foster Education On Complexity Using Network Visualizations

21AugJanuary 31, 2019 By Paul van der Cingel

There should be more focus on systems thinking in education, Roland Kupers argues convincingly in the Global Search for Education on the Huffington Post. As complexity always involves interconnectedness between…

Join Us In Our Design and Learning Journey

20AugJanuary 31, 2019 By Ari Sahagún and June Holley

Co-Design Series Part 1 We (Ari Sahagún and June Holley) are working on a project to help network participants shift their values, behaviors, and skills while they create new network…

Why Networks?

17AugJanuary 31, 2019 By June Holley

Many people are asked “Why networks?” or “When does it make sense to use a network approach?” This handout explains all and makes it easy for you to email to…

Network-ing Does Not Equal Network WEAVING

15AugJanuary 31, 2019 By Christine Capra

Those of us who work with change networks could sometimes do a better job of clarifying the distinction between ‘networking’ and ‘network weaving’. Leaving that distinction un-articulated and merely implied…

Moving (rapidly) to a Network World

13AugJanuary 31, 2019 By June Holley

I’m a network hunter. My idea of fun is to spend hours traveling through the web world, spying new networks and learning all I can about network development. From my…

Building Communities Through Network Weaving

10AugJanuary 31, 2019 By June Holley

In 2004, Valdis Krebs and I collaborated on an article that described the stages of network development and introduced the term network weaver. In 2005 an edited version of this…

Foodshed team learns how to establish consent instead of consensus

08AugJanuary 31, 2019 By Tracy Kunkler

In Propositions for Organizing with Complexity: Learnings from the Appalachian Foodshed Project (AFP), Nikki D’Adamo-Damery described nine propositions that emerged from the work of the AFP. Proposition #2 was: “Establish Consent instead of Consensus.” The…