Our Better Angels need to get their act together. I find myself looking back at five years working in peacebuilding and conflict transformation. Almost as long as I spent working…
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Governance is how we choose to be together
An illustrated story of liberatory governance practice Storytelling — like governance — can take many forms. When choosing new ways of being together, we begin with ourselves — in our…
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Experimenting Towards Liberated Governance
Over a year ago, Vu Le published an article about the current models for nonprofit boards. The title “The default nonprofit board model is archaic and toxic; let’s try some new…
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Governance – the overlooked route to transformation: How can we best organise for change?
What are the current governance approaches and ways of organising that are being used in attempts to create systems change? What would more systemic governance approaches for our work look/feel like…
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The 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…
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Principles For Ecosystem Governance
As we adopt Societal Platform Thinking towards working with the ecosystem to achieve the mission, there is a wide and diverse range of interactions that happen and generate value. Interactions…
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Thinking 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…
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Appreciating the Complexity of Human Ecosystems
Networks are made of individuals. Each person is a complex system where we can’t control nor truly predict their behavior, so combining them to form a network can make things…
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Liberating Structures in Network Development
When working in a network comprised of technical folks, it is easy stay in the familiar territory of presenting knowledge when the network gathers. Sometimes assumptions are made about scientists,…
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Network Evaluation
In complex settings, causality is also complex. We cannot identify a single action that will produce the outcomes we want. We often have to experiment, trying out a number of…
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