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….
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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…
Continue ReadingTrust in Networks is Fundamental to Social Change
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 assets…
Continue ReadingThinking Like a Network 2.0
“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…
Continue ReadingHow To Increase Participation Through Increased Engagement
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…
Continue ReadingAppreciative Reflections
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 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…
Continue ReadingBuilding Communities Through Network Weaving
In 2004, Valdis Krebs and I collaborated on an article that described the stages of network development and introduced the term network weaver. In 2005 an edited version of this…
Continue ReadingFree Worksheets
We are now offering two network worksheets at no cost.The first is the Network Weaver Checklist, revised from the NW Handbook version and in an easy to print pdf format….
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