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. The…
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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 challenges…
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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 villageLast 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 world.Phoebe…
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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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Irrigating Our Health Ecosystems with System Change Practitioners
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…
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Bending the Arc Toward Racial Justice
PART 1: Juicy Questions about Building Capacity for Racial JusticeIf you’re a regular reader or part of Interaction Institute for Social Change’s network, you’ll know that we build collaborative capacity…
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