Three Level Networks for TransformationI’ve mentioned before that transformation or system shifting requires networks to be involved in networks of networks. This blog post will explain why every network needs…
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Across the U.S. and Canada, multi-stakeholder collaborative networks are addressing the systemic issues and wicked problems that cannot be solved by any one organization or institution alone.In the past 5 years here…
Continue ReadingInclusive Networks Are Shaping Our Lives Right Now – Are They Governance?
Increasingly, networks that embrace diverse sectors and stakeholders are working together on shared issues and goals at all levels of society. They are having real impact on the ground all…
Continue ReadingSociocracy: Why, What and Who?
An excerpt from Chapter 1 of Many Voices One Song: Shared Power with Sociocracy by Ted J Rau and Jerry Koch-Gonzalez Sociocracy is a set of tools and principles that ensure shared power. How…
Continue ReadingTrust: 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…
Continue ReadingFlexible Formations for Networks
Thinking about co-design embedded within a network presents additional challenges. Ideally, a design team creates many spaces to engage in co-design – both online and in-person – that allow for…
Continue ReadingNetwork Governance
Network governance is the idea that decision-making that is currently lodged in representative bodies such as congress or city councils can be shifted into self-organizing networks. This shift has the…
Continue ReadingNetwork 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 downloadable file.
Continue ReadingNetwork 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…
Continue ReadingSystems Thinking and Networks
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…
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