The case for relationship-centred communities, organisations and systems What follows is an excerpt from the The Relationships Project’s Case Maker, Putting Relationships First IF YOU WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD,…
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Murmurations: Wisdom From Women Changemakers
This article appeared first on YES! Media as part of their “Murmurations” column A note from adrienne maree brown: Shawna Wakefield is passionate about collaborative work and collective thinking, as well…
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Community Engagement for Equitable Systems Change
Over the past five years we have collaborated to birth and cultivate a constellation of tools to support people seeking to center community voices as we create more equitable systems. …
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Learnings and Insights From Stepping Into Systems
The School of System Change exists to nurture a systemic, living paradigm, where learning is change. Learning is not the transactional, linear process of acquiring institutionalised knowledge; it’s the process of…
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Evolving Strategy in Complexity: For organizations who are overwhelmed, over-processing, and still need a coordinated plan to win
When adrienne maree brown shared her invitation for “less prep, more presence” in Emergent Strategy, I was one of the people who really needed to hear that to unlearn some long-time…
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Measurement as a regenerative practice
All our current global challenges can basically be traced back to one underlying paradigm or myth: That we are separate from others and the world. When we try to address…
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Imagining Liberation
The Changemaker Authors Cohort, a partnership with the Unicorn Authors Club, is a new, yearlong intensive coaching program supporting full-time movement activists and social justice practitioners to complete books that create…
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Changing the System by Fire
It takes a village Last week, I interviewed Phoebe Tickell on imagination activism and the space between having solutions at hand and deploying them in the right way to build a better…
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Scaling Deep: Where it came from and more to go
Many years ago now, I was attending a gathering convened by the McConnell Foundation at a pretty hotel in Toronto. It was back in the early social innovation days, when…
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Changing the Conversation Around Reproductive Justice
“Reproductive justice” was first coined in 1994 by the Women of African Descent for Reproductive Justice and defined in 1997 by Sister Song (a formal outgrowth of that group) as “the human…
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