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…
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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 FUTURES Every 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…
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Iniciandose En La CAJA DE HERRAMIENTAS De La AUTO-ORGANIZACIÓN
Spanish translation by Ulises Aguila ( for the English language version of the Self Organizing Toolkit click HERE ) Iniciandose En La CAJA DE HERRAMIENTAS De La AUTO-ORGANIZACIÓN incluye un…
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Weaving the Weavers : Efforts to co-create global learning and peer assist
Let´s be honest Network Weaving is super fascinating. There are so many activities that we, network weavers, can contribute to to make communities vibrant and effective. Surely, you have your…
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Transformative Networks Are Multiscalar
This is an excerpt from the Network Weaver Handbook. I’ll be writing an update with my latest research and thinking on the topic in the coming weeks so stay tuned! …
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A Network Connector Story
Sometimes a story can convey meaning better than a lecture. This week’s free resource is a story from the early days of the Appalachian Center for Economic Network’s (ACEnet) Kitchen…
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