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.However,…
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“Relationship is the fundamental truth of this world of appearance,”– TagoreOver the past several years of supporting networks for social change, we at IISC have been constantly evolving our understanding of what…
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Co-Design Series Part 4Most 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 to…
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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…
Continue ReadingCriteria For A Design Process Emerging From Network Values
Co-Design Series Part 3First, 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 inevitable unequal…
Continue Reading25 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….
Continue ReadingWhy 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…
Continue ReadingThe 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…
Continue ReadingThree 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…
Continue ReadingNetwork-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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