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Organizing models for social change: Networks as an inclusive category

22FebFebruary 28, 2021 By Collective Mind

Creating social change of any sort requires organizing the people who have an interest in the issue or problem at hand. The global social impact space has a wide range of…

Toolkit for Self – Organizing

25NovNovember 26, 2020 By June Holley

Movement NetLab, a Think and Do Collective, formed after Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Sandy with the idea of sharing the lessons learned from those innovations in decentralized organizing. Four of…

Systems Practice, Abridged

10NovNovember 10, 2020 By Alex Vipond

When you’re making a system map in Kumu, it’s important to have skill and familiarity with the tool itself, but it’s equally important to have an understanding of the concepts…

CoCreative Fall Training Series

11SepSeptember 11, 2020 By The CoCreative Team

Dear friends, colleagues, and systems change leaders, We’re pleased to announce several training courses for fall, 2020. We’ve taken the foundational content from our in-person courses and reimagined and redesigned…

SYSTEMS CHANGE & DEEP EQUITY

10SepOctober 26, 2020 By Change Elemental

Pathways Toward SustainableImpact, Beyond “Eureka!,”Unawareness & Unwitting Harm An Interview with Sheryl Petty and Mark Leach Below is the introduction to the full Systems Change & Deep Equity monograph offered…

Invocations, Principles, Ingredients, and Recipes for Nourishing Social Justice Practitioners and Networks

09DecJuly 29, 2020 By AJA COUCHOIS DUNCAN, DIA JOYCE PENNING

As leaders working in networked ways, we have often found ourselves hungry for ingredients and recipes to serve our practice. As social justice practitioners and cooks, we know the wisdom is within us…

Appreciating the Complexity of Human Ecosystems

12NovJuly 30, 2020 By Sarah Ann Shanahan, The RE-AMP Network and Royce Holladay, The Human Systems Dynamics Institute

Networks are made of individuals. Each person is a complex system where we can’t control nor truly predict their behavior, so combining them to form a network can make things…

Can Systems Mapping Help Build Equitable Climate Resilience?

14AugAugust 8, 2020 By Water Foundation

Water Foundation program officer Alex Paxton shares how LA leaders are using systems mapping to create a more resilient and just future for all residents. Last November, Los Angeles County…

Storytelling to Enable Systems Thinking

23JulAugust 8, 2020 By Gene Bellinger

For a long time I developed models and inflicted them on other people. Fortunately, due to the interaction with others, it became apparent that it made more sense to become…

Scaffolding for System Shifting Networks

08JulAugust 8, 2020 By June Holley

Networks come in all shapes and sizes. However, if you want to be a system shifting network you will need to put in place scaffolding so that transformation can emerge…

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