Network Processes Archives

Closing Triangles

07FebFebruary 8, 2019 By June Holley

Today’s free resource is a diagram showing how to close triangles that you can print out and share with your network so they learn this basic network weaving skill. One…

Peer Assist Process

24JanJanuary 24, 2019 By June Holley

This peer assist process is great as a stand alone session or can be part of a community of practice. It is useful when a group or project has a…

The Power of Networks

26DecJanuary 22, 2019 By Lisa Watson

If you’re like most nonprofit leaders, you’re devoting significant effort to your networks. But what return are you seeing on that investment? I recently spoke with 500+ nonprofit leaders at…

A Network Connector Story

03DecDecember 18, 2018 By June Holley

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. …

Communities of Practice for Network Weavers

19NovFebruary 1, 2019 By June Holley

The most effective way for people to build their skills as Network Weavers is to set up a Community of Practice –a group of people who share an interest in…

Trust: Foundation of Effective Networks

02NovFebruary 1, 2019 By June Holley

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…

Network Weaver Free Resources Package

12OctFebruary 1, 2019 By June Holley

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…

Conversations in Networks

10OctFebruary 1, 2019 By Bruce Hoppe

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…

Network Strategies For Your Network

08OctFebruary 1, 2019 By June Holley

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…

Designing Meetings that Do More

03OctFebruary 1, 2019 By Beth Tener

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….

Systems Thinking and Networks

03OctFebruary 1, 2019 By Derrick Rhayn

Last fall, I heard about an online educational portal called Plus Acumen, which advertises itself as the “world’s school for social change” and offers several free classes. Many of their…

Network Trust Assessment

28SepFebruary 1, 2019 By June Holley

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…

Trust in Networks is Fundamental to Social Change

26SepFebruary 1, 2019 By Christine Capra

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…

Trust In Networks

24SepFebruary 1, 2019 By June Holley

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….

How To Increase Participation Through Increased Engagement

14SepFebruary 1, 2019 By June Holley

A new free resource is available in the Resources section of Network Weaver. Many people ask me “How do I get people to participate more in our network?” This simple…

Criteria For A Design Process Emerging From Network Values

10SepFebruary 1, 2019 By Ari Sahagún and June Holley

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…

25 Behaviors That Support Strong Network Culture

06SepFebruary 1, 2019 By Curtis Ogden

“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….

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…

What Is Self Organizing?

27AugJanuary 31, 2019 By June Holley

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…

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…

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