Below is an excerpt from the full article which can be downloaded here or at the bottom of this post. This article a part of the Tamarack Institutes Collaborative Governance…
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Moving from ladders of engagement to self-organizing as decentralized leadership
Thanks to June Holley for thought partnership!In campaign-based organizing, we tend to think of engaging people hierarchically: the goal is to move people up the ladder, progressively increasing their levels…
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Liberatory Governance… and belonging
How do we organize ourselves… in a world where everyone belongs?Of the many barriers to living into a world where everyone belongs, this question feels fundamental: how do we organize…
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Reclaiming Care Beyond Roe v. Wade
When the state cannot guarantee our safety, we turn to community as our ancestors didOn June 24, Roe v. Wade was overturned by the Supreme Court after nearly 50 years…
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From Learning to Doing
Many years ago I was teaching high school English on a small island in SE Alaska. I asked the class to compare a piece of literature to the story of…
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The Art of Measuring Change
What are your associations with words such as “measurement”, “evaluation” or “indicator”? For many people these words sound annoying at best, and there are good reasons for it. Yet –…
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Businesses without Bosses: from hard-nosed leadership to sustainable, self-managing systems
As many of you know, I’m very passionate about helping people understand and experiment with self-organizing. Joella Bruckshaw and Julian Saipe are executive coaches who have a wonderful podcast series called ‘Behind…
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Who Decides Who Decides?
Have you ever started a group that started with enthusiasm and fizzled out over time? I have. Even more often, I have joined groups that other people started… that fizzled…
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INTERSECTIONALITY IN NETWORKS AND ORGANIZATION: WIDENING THE SCOPE OF INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY
Growing up, I remember my mother rising daily before the sun to make her way to work. After preparing herself for the day, she’d make a tiring journey into work,…
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DECENTRALIZED NETWORKS AND THE BLACK RADICAL TRADITION – PART 1
FROM COLLECTIVE ORGANIZING TO BUILDING BLACK FUTURESEvery second Thursday of the month, Network Weavers Yasmin Yonis, Kiara Nagel and Marie DeMange host a Community of Practice conversation on Zoom. The skill-building space is…
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