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…
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A Bold Experiment in Relationships, Power & Imagining Leadership Otherwise
A Sterling Network NYC ReportReport written by Judy Pryor-Ramirez – Independent Research Consultant and shared here by Phil Li & Trish Adobea Tchume – Robert Sterling Clark FoundationSince 2016 when…
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Healing 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…
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MEASURING 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….
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Governance 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…
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Ceremony: 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 Akomolafe1As the newest members of turtle island, two-leggeds…
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The Complexity Spectrum
Systems change is not for everyone, but making a good choice isPhilanthropies are increasingly becoming key players in the field of systems change. As organizations grow more innovative and risk…
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The role and power of re-patterning in systems change
7 everyday patterns to shift systems towards equityMany recent discussions about civic innovation and systems change have focused on big structural changes that need to take place if we are…
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Turning the stone: embedding systems thinking in the everyday
The contextImagesIsn’t it interesting how frequently as human beings we turn to metaphor? Sometimes these images are so embedded in the everyday that we don’t see them for what they…
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Decentralized organizing: More collaboration, less hierarchy
From organisational governance to mobilising and sustaining grassroots movements, what is decentralised organising and how can this approach facilitate collective but efficient decision-making without management hierarchy?Decentralised organising isn’t just about…
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