Intelligence is usually defined in terms of capacities like the ability to learn, to plan, to recognize patterns and to solve problems. So it has been hard for me –…
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The impact of the pandemic on networks: Learning from network managers’ experiencesCollective Mind hosts regular Community Conversations with our global learning community. These sessions create space for network professionals to connect, share…
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We are offering a new section in our Resources section: a set of presentation slide decks that can be used by you for training or sharing with people who want…
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Having a group or network take a values survey raises awareness of the values and behaviors that enable networks to be system shifting or transformational.Network Weaver has published a Network…
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This Collaborative Projects Survey can be used to help collaborative work or learning projects increase their awareness of their strengths and challenges and enable them to see the skills that…
Continue ReadingThe Importance of Learning in Networks
We are seeing a shift in the social transformation space from evaluation to learning and support for change. Evaluation has too often been a judgment-based, funder driven approach to determining whether…
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Having network maps is a wonderful thing – but not if you can’t read what they are saying! This free resource offers some basic strategies for interpreting network maps. Network maps…
Continue ReadingIdentifying Leverage Points to Focus Action
The idea behind the identification of leverage points is the assumption that working in some areas can be more productive than others. A leverage point is a place where, if…
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What are learning weavers? Why does your network need them?I’ve often thought that we need to spend much more time and energy making sense of and learning from what we…
Continue ReadingFor the Sake of Change: Consider the Vastness Not Entered
Two pieces of art have been working me over lately. And I have been sharing them with others in different social justice spaces. One is a poem by Simon J. Ortiz, “Culture and the Universe,”…
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