Many years ago now, I was attending a gathering convened by the McConnell Foundation at a pretty hotel in Toronto. It was back in the early social innovation days, when…
Continue ReadingGovernance Dilemmas — Boundary Conditions for Navigating Networked Peacebuilding
As actors engaged in peacebuilding and social change, we often find ourselves grappling with complex dynamics while facilitating the establishment of effective governance systems. Three recurring themes, or dilemmas, have…
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Dense community networks bring resilience, equality and agency to our places: how we’re mapping and exploring social capital to test and develop these hypotheses Strong communities are made up of…
Continue ReadingChanging the Conversation Around Reproductive Justice
“Reproductive justice” was first coined in 1994 by the Women of African Descent for Reproductive Justice and defined in 1997 by Sister Song (a formal outgrowth of that group) as “the human…
Continue ReadingThe magic of finding my peers of relationship-centred practitioners
In brief On the 23rd November 2022, 80 relationship-centred practitioners came together at Northumbria University to unpack the how, what and why of relationship-centred practice. Relationships Project shared some of…
Continue ReadingIrrigating Our Health Ecosystems with System Change Practitioners
We are living through a pivotal moment in human history. We are in the throes of disruption as the systems we have come to rely upon seem to collapse, forcing…
Continue ReadingAso Oke: Weaving Community
According to a scholar of textile design Picton (1979), weaving is a simple process of interlacing a set of thread (warp and weft) at right angles to form a web…
Continue ReadingBending the Arc Toward Racial Justice
PART 1: Juicy Questions about Building Capacity for Racial Justice If you’re a regular reader or part of Interaction Institute for Social Change’s network, you’ll know that we build collaborative…
Continue ReadingLearning about learning networks
We have been watching with awe as so many people in and around government tackle the increasingly complex challenges of our turbulent times. Despite (or perhaps even because of) the…
Continue ReadingTransformation Teachings
I am recently back from the Transformations Community gathering in Prague in the Czech Republic and still savoring and making sense of the time. That trip capped a flurry of work travel…
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