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…
Continue ReadingChanging 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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We are living through a pivotal moment in human history. We are in the throes of disruption as the systems we have come to rely upon seem to collapse, forcing…
Continue ReadingBending the Arc Toward Racial Justice
PART 1: Juicy Questions about Building Capacity for Racial Justice If you’re a regular reader or part of Interaction Institute for Social Change’s network, you’ll know that we build collaborative…
Continue ReadingWorking Across Difference: Building accountability & learning infrastructure
At The Systems Sanctuary our approach to teaching systems practice is rooted in practical experience. We come to systems change work as practitioners first. We are experienced, but are also ever-evolving, network…
Continue ReadingA Bold Experiment in Relationships, Power & Imagining Leadership Otherwise
A Sterling Network NYC Report Report written by Judy Pryor-Ramirez – Independent Research Consultant and shared here by Phil Li & Trish Adobea Tchume – Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Since…
Continue ReadingHealing Love into Balance
Below is the preface to this week’s featured resource: Healing Love into Balance. Find the link to download this Brown paper at the end of this post. Love in the…
Continue ReadingMEASURING LOVE in the JOURNEY for JUSTICE
Below is the preface to this week’s featured resource: Measuring Love in the Journey for Justice. Find the link to download this Brown paper at the end of this post….
Continue ReadingGovernance for System Change
The Complexity Spectrum blog describes how clock and cloud (non-system change and system change) approaches require fundamentally different strategies and tactics. The same goes for the mental models and processes we use…
Continue ReadingCeremony: Reyoking the Sacred with Our Social Justice Work
“Disability is an invitation to relationship…It’s that opening that creates the whole ecosystem.” – Sophie Strand “Poetry is the language of the apocalypse.” – Bayo Akomolafe1 As the newest members…
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