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…
Continue ReadingUnderstanding Movements
What follows is an excerpt from the Understanding Movements report, researched by Kapil Dawda, commissioned by Rohini Nilekani Philanthropies. You can access the full report and the accompanying Understanding Movements…
Continue ReadingBeing a strange attractor
This article forms the first in an intended series of articles. The main theme of that series is to reflect on a new language for social transformation. For me, language goes…
Continue ReadingEnergy Network Literacy: On Care-full Dis-Connection, Dis-Entanglement and Regenerative Flow Management
“i think of movements as intentional worlds, or perhaps more accurately as worlds designed by and for intentional people, those who are able to feel the world not as an…
Continue ReadingThe Web of Change
Creating Impact Through Networks The following post is excerpted from the introduction of Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change, now available in print, as an audiobook, and…
Continue ReadingReimagining a Regenerative Future — Part 1
Navigating radical uncertainty with radical tenderness… MATURITY is the ability to live fully and equally in multiple contexts; most especially, the ability, despite our grief and losses, to courageously inhabit…
Continue ReadingFrom Learning to Doing
How do more of us help create a world that is good for all of us? Many of us have been attending at least a few of the hundreds of…
Continue ReadingThe Wisdom of W.A.I.T.ing: Mindful Sharing in a Network Age
“We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.”— Zeno of Citium The other day I was reminded of the group working agreement “W.A.I.T.”…
Continue ReadingThinking Like an Octopus (and With a Collaborative Heart): Evolving and Interlocking Networks
“You’ve got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it.”Toni Morrison A network that I have been a…
Continue ReadingTrust Emerges Over Time
Imagine a research-intensive organization where scientists should be sharing what they learn, and the official company policy is to share information and expertise among public and private partners. However, the…
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