A lot of research has been conducted lately to identify how awareness or mindfulness operates in our brain, the benefits of this mental state, and how we can spend more…
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A Network Connector Story
Sometimes a story can convey meaning better than a lecture. This week’s free resource is a story from the early days of the Appalachian Center for Economic Network’s (ACEnet) Kitchen…
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A Network Connector Story
First, An Introduction For a long time, we’ve trained our eyes to see things with edges and boundaries: organizations, countries, selves. Things with edges and boundaries feel manageable and solid. …
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Trust: Foundation of Effective Networks
This article is a chapter from the Network Weaver Handbook with several worksheets you can use with your networks, projects and organizations. They go together nicely with the blog posts Trust…
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Network Weaver Mindset Posters
Ari Sahagun and Odin Zackman co-designed seven posters on Network Weaver Mindsets — fresh with ecological metaphors. Feel free to use them in your work! We’d love to hear your thoughts and…
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Stories of Network Value and Engagement
Every month Network Weaver has a virtual Consultants Gathering. In August’s gathering, the consultants were asked to share stories about their own successful and fulfilling network experiences. Below are three…
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Stories of Network Value and Engagement
Every month Network Weaver has a virtual Consultants Gathering. In August’s gathering, the consultants were asked to share stories about their own successful and fulfilling network experiences. Below are three…
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Network Weaver Free Resources Package
Each week, we add a new free item to our store. This week we are offering: Network Weaver FREE RESOURCES PACKAGE. ALL of the free resources currently available at the Network Weaver Resource Page in one complete…
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Conversations in Networks
In early September I started collecting #MeToo tweets and stumbled into a big-data look at #MeToo and the Kavanaugh confirmation. As I posted previously, the Twitter network is radically split into…
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Network Strategies For Your Network
The following video is about 20 minutes long and provides a short overview of network strategies. It was done for the Food Policy Network State Networks, who graciously agreed to…
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Designing Meetings that Do More
Imagine leaving a meeting feeling naturally inspired, energized by new ideas, with enhanced goodwill toward your colleagues, and a shared sense of alignment and clarity for where to go next….
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Network Trust Assessment
Do you suspect your network has trust problems ? This simple survey, when taken by participants in your network, can pinpoint the nature of your trust challenges. It might be…
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Trust in Networks is Fundamental to Social Change
Trust is a core principle – in Chaos Theory, we’d call trust within human systems a powerful ‘Strange Attractor.’ The purpose of a Change Network is to amplify the flow of knowledge, information, resources, skills, and…
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Trust In Networks
Trust in networks is different than trust in organizations or coalitions where it is essential to spend time building trust among everyone because the relationships are likely to be long-term….
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Thinking Like a Network 2.0
“Relationship is the fundamental truth of this world of appearance,” – Tagore Over the past several years of supporting networks for social change, we at IISC have been constantly evolving our understanding…
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Learning about Change and Transformation
Co-Design Series Part 4 Most of you reading this post are involved in what are called social change efforts. We are working on social change because we want the world…
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Appreciative Reflections
I have a number of ‘network friends’ – people I know, online & by video & phone, whom I’ve not yet met in the flesh. People who for one reason…
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Criteria For A Design Process Emerging From Network Values
Co-Design Series Part 3 First, we wanted to make sure our definition of co-design fit our list of network values. 1) The co-design process needs to create an alternative to the…
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25 Behaviors That Support Strong Network Culture
“Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height….
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Why Dismantling Racism and White Supremacy Culture Unleashes the Benefits of Networks
Before we go any further down the road of this blog, we need to point out that network approaches cannot become transformative unless the network explicitly works on dismantling white…
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The Promise of Co-Design
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…
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Three Ways To Foster Education On Complexity Using Network Visualizations
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…
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Network-ing Does Not Equal Network WEAVING
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…
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Building Communities Through Network Weaving
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…
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Foodshed team learns how to establish consent instead of consensus
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…
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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…
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Welcome to the Network Weaving Blog
There are over 1.4 million tax-exempt non-profits in the United States, many of them working on the hard-to-shift systemic problems of our society, such as racism, poverty, immigrant rights, access…
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A NETWORK OF NETWORKS
Editor’s note: I’ve become more and more convinced that networks are much more effective when they are also part of networks with other networks, where they can share information, learn,…
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