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# Network Weaver

Networking Weaving, Systems Change and Transformation

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- [The Four Directions Dashboard (FDD)](https://networkweaver.com/the-four-directions-dashboard-fdd/) - Discover how the Four Directions Dashboard (FDD) helps non-profits shift from tracking basic activities to measuring real impact, organizational resilience, and community transformation.
- [The Engagement Staircase: A Strategic Guide for Catalyzing a Network of Changemakers for Systemic Change](https://networkweaver.com/the-engagement-staircase-a-strategic-guide-for-catalyzing-a-network-of-changemakers-for-systemic-change/) - Discover how to use the Engagement Staircase framework to move network members from passive observers to active co-creators. This strategic guide outlines practical steps to deepen community trust, clear participation pathways, and cultivate sustainable network leadership.
- [Thinking Like a Network 2.0](https://networkweaver.com/thinking-like-a-network-2-0-2/) - by Curtis Ogden Relationship is the fundamental truth of this world of appearance. – Tagore Over the past several years of supporting networks for social change, we at IISC have been constantly evolving our understanding of what is new and different when we call something a network, as opposed to a coalition, collaborative or alliance. On the surface, much can
- [How Embodiment Transforms Systems Change](https://networkweaver.com/how-embodiment-transforms-systems-change/) - Explore why true systems change requires moving beyond cognitive strategy to somatic awareness. This article examines how embodiment practices heal collective trauma, disrupt entrenched power dynamics, and unlock the deeper relational shifts needed for lasting social transformation
- [Nurturing improvement networks: practical lessons from our SQC funding programme](https://networkweaver.com/nurturing-improvement-networks-practical-lessons-from-our-sqc-funding-programme/) - by Tarnia Mason Our Supporting Q Connections (SQC) funding programme was created to strengthen something we know improvement depends on, but that often goes unseen: the relationships, networks and local infrastructure that allow improvement practice to take place. This was Q’s first rolling grant programme. Instead of a single annual call, we decided make funding available throughout the
- [Funding is Governance](https://networkweaver.com/funding-is-governance/) - Funding decisions are governance decisions. Tracy Kunkler explores how money, power, and governance concentrate together — and what it looks like when they flow instead toward networks, relationships, and systems change.
- [For the Sake of Justice, Support Love’s Flow](https://networkweaver.com/for-the-sake-of-justice-support-loves-flow/) - Explore why love is a structural necessity for social justice. This article examines how designing systems to support 'love’s flow' increases human intelligence, reduces bias, and creates the resilient, regenerative structures needed for long-term collective thriving.
- [Cultivating a Culture of Care: A PoP Up Session Reflection](https://networkweaver.com/cultivating-cuture-of-care/) - Discover what a culture of care really means in impact networks — not niceness, but the intentional conditions that make honest participation, trust, and genuine collaboration possible.
- [How Small Innovations Shift Systems](https://networkweaver.com/small-innovationsshift-systems/) - Explore how 'Trojan mice' and small experiments can bypass rigid systems to create lasting change. Using the Three Horizons framework, this article highlights real-world examples of how local, regenerative innovations in fire management, food systems, and collaborative culture help seed a more resilient future.
- [Building Trauma-Informed Networks: Principles from Practice](https://networkweaver.com/building-trauma-informed-networks-principles-from-practice/) - Discover how to lead and sustain trauma-informed networks with these 6 core principles. Learn to recognize trauma responses like 'fight, flight, freeze, or fawn' and implement practices that foster psychological safety, agency, and collective well-being in complex systems
- [What we mean by good relationships](https://networkweaver.com/what-we-mean-by-good-relationships/) - Explore the difference between good relationships and good transactions. We define the characteristics of a 'good relationship' as unique, organic, and empathetic, helping us understand when to invest in building relationships versus when a transaction suffices.
- [2026: Stay Focused, Strategic and Collaborative](https://networkweaver.com/startegic-collaboration-2026-curtis/) - Stay focused, strategic, and collaborative in 2026. Explore grounding practices and strategic frameworks for organizations facing complex social challenges.
- [Weaving Networks in MAKI](https://networkweaver.com/weaving-networks-in-maki/) - Being part of the Network Weaving Learning series in the Q community was a transformative experience, highlighting the often-overlooked art of effective networking.
- [A Liberatory Approach to Measuring Network Impact](https://networkweaver.com/a-liberatory-leadership-approach-to-measuring-network-impact/) - Explore the liberatory approach to measuring network impact. Discover the essential shift from traditional, quantitative metrics to qualitative, human-centered metrics across four core categories, highlighting how networks foster shared power, deep relationships, and systemic transformation.
- [What Grows in the Cracks: On Community, Memory, and Designing Otherwise](https://networkweaver.com/what-grows-in-the-cracks-on-community-memory-and-designing-otherwise/) - Explore how community gardening, ancestral memory, and anti-oppressive design intersect. Learn how Design for Social Impact (DFSI) works to unlearn dominant logics and center equity, healing, and collective wisdom in social justice work.
- [Networks as Stabilizers: Leveraging Collective Possibility During Transitions](https://networkweaver.com/netowrks-building-leveraging-collective-transitions/) - In times of system shocks and transitions, networks serve as vital sources of resilience, resource-sharing, and stability. Explore how nonprofit leaders can leverage collective possibility and strong ecosystems to navigate uncertainty and avoid burnout
- [Seven Habits for Collaborative Leaders to Make it Through These Times](https://networkweaver.com/seven-habits-for-collaborative-leaders-to-make-it-through-these-times/) - Discover the seven essential habits collaborative leaders need to cultivate to stay grounded, healthy, and connected while navigating through extraordinary times of uncertainty and change
- [Exploring the intersection of systemic investment, place-based capital, community finance and social innovation](https://networkweaver.com/exploring-the-intersection-of-systems-change-investment-place-based-capital-community-finance/) - Explore the intersection of systemic investment, place-based capital, community finance, and social innovation. A session recording and reflection on new funding and frameworks for systems change and complex community challenges.
- [Living Interdependent Systems: a practice of attuning to the wisdom of nature](https://networkweaver.com/living-interdependent-systems-a-practice-of-attuning-to-the-wisdom-of-nature/) - Practice deep equity and systems change by connecting with nature. Discover Indigenous and quantum wisdom on interconnectedness. Use embodied practices like silent walking and conscious breathing to attune to the non-human world, inform your leadership, and embrace complexity.
- [Workplace Burnout on Repeat](https://networkweaver.com/workplace-burnout-on-repeat/) - Discover how ancestral histories and family systems constellations principles influence workplace burnout, perfectionism, and conflict avoidance, and learn how to restore a balanced exchange for greater ease and clarity in your organization.
- [How Leadership Can Make A Difference as We Fight Back and Fight Forward!](https://networkweaver.com/how-leadership-can-make-a-difference-network-strategies/) - Discover how network strategies empower leaders to 'Fight Back and Fight Forward' against current attacks, protecting gains and building an equitable future. Learn how leadership programs can cultivate this vital capacity.
- [Network Weaving as “Light Work:” Take 2](https://networkweaver.com/network-weaving-as-light-work-take-2/) - We reflected on network weaving as “light work” – the gentle, steadfast practices of connection that counter fear and isolation.
- [Signals from the Web](https://networkweaver.com/signals-from-the-web/) - Over the past couple of months, I have had the pleasure of connecting with some brilliant minds to talk about our journeys, our work, and what’s been taking up space in our thinking these days. These conversations are part of my ongoing effort to build and deepen relationships with systems thinkers across geographies, disciplines, and sectors.
- [Ancestral Echoes, Liberated Futures: A Conversation to Preview Our October 27th Session](https://networkweaver.com/ancestral-echoes-liberated-futures-a-conversation/) - by Iman Mills Gordon and Ana Polanco This week, I was fortunate to have the opportunity to connect with Ana Polanco, an ancestral coach, family constellations facilitator, and beloved liberatory leadership colleague, on a day when I felt under the weather and under-resourced. Experiencing Ana’s easeful magic and learning more about family constellations provided new
- [Building thriving organisations based on the Source principles](https://networkweaver.com/building-thriving-organisations-based-on-the-source-principles/) - Have you experienced the creative buzz and joy at the start of a new initiative? Or do you rather dread its first scheduled meetings when people are asking for help and contributions, because you’ve experienced how the initial motivation can be drained by lengthy discussions and power struggles?
- [Thank you & Farewell](https://networkweaver.com/thank-you-farewell/) - As I embark on a new journey, it is with a bittersweet heart that I say farewell to the role of Site and Communications Manager for Network Weaver
- [How Microgrants are Powering Grassroots Climate Solutions and Fuelling Young Activists to Make Change](https://networkweaver.com/how-microgrants-are-powering-grassroots-climate-solutions-and-fuelling-young-activists-to-make-change/) - Microgrants may be small in size, but when placed directly into the hands of community-rooted organisers, they become levers of transformation.
- [Networks Are Our Greatest Asset](https://networkweaver.com/networks-are-our-greatest-asset/) - When we open our networks to trusted comrades, we're weaving the resilient fabric we need to keep people resourced and supported.
- [Strategic Planning in 2025: Five Ways to Navigate Chaos with Clarity](https://networkweaver.com/strategic-planning-in-2025-five-ways-to-navigate-chaos-with-clarity/) - At IISC, we approach strategic planning setting with a keen awareness of the uncertainties and emerging opportunities that organizations face.
- [Where Myth & Reality Merge: How Storytelling Can Carry Us Through & Beyond the Polycrisis](https://networkweaver.com/where-myth-reality-merge-how-storytelling-can-carry-us-through-beyond-the-polycrisis/) - Oral storytelling is one of humanity’s oldest art forms. Since we could form language, we’ve crafted stories to define who we are, explain where we came from, and uncover our place in the world and cosmos.
- [The Value Proposition of Incubators and Accelerators: Fueling Impactful Innovation](https://networkweaver.com/the-value-proposition-of-incubators-and-accelerators-fueling-impactful-innovation/) - n the ever-evolving entrepreneurship landscape, incubators and accelerators play a crucial role in transforming ideas into sustainable businesses.
- [Nourishing Liberatory Leadership: Lessons from the John W. Mack Fellows](https://networkweaver.com/nourishing-liberatory-leadership-lessons-from-the-john-w-mack-fellows/) - Liberatory leadership, like land, holds memory. It remembers the footprints of those who came before, the pressure of extraction, and the possibility of restoration.
- [Stories From A Liberated Future](https://networkweaver.com/stories-from-a-liberated-future/) - A series of group writings considering different ways to describe shared liberation. Liberated
- [The Inner Work of Systems Change](https://networkweaver.com/the-inner-work-of-systems-change/) - inner work makes us potent, wise, and compassionate co-creators. It is how we answer the call to heal ourselves and our world
- [Why Invest in Networks Now?](https://networkweaver.com/why-invest-in-networks-now/) - So, why invest in networks and network weaving now?
- [The limitations of network goal-setting](https://networkweaver.com/limitations-of-network-goal-setting/) - What if we stopped setting goals for our networks? network
- [BIPOC Editorial Series 2024-2025](https://networkweaver.com/bipoc-editorial-series-2024-2025/) - Network Weaver is dedicated to offering free content to all – in support of equity, justice and transformation for all. We appreciate your support! [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] Network Weaver is dedicated to offering free content to all – in support of equity, justice and transformation for all. We appreciate your support! [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] Network Weaver
- [Flexible Formations for Networks](https://networkweaver.com/flexible-formations-for-networks/) - Thinking about co-design embedded within a network presents additional challenges
- [blog template](https://networkweaver.com/blog-template-2/) - by Greater Than The Sum Those of us who work with change networks could sometimes do a better job of clarifying the distinction between ‘networking’ and ‘network weaving’. Leaving that distinction un-articulated and merely implied inclines those who are new to the discussion to default their hearing to the generic-mainstream meaning of ‘networking’. It leaves
- [We need to talk about leadership](https://networkweaver.com/we-need-to-talk-about-leadership/) - What is the quality of leadership we need to build a world where everyone belongs? leadership
- [Working Across Difference: Building accountability & learning infrastructure](https://networkweaver.com/working-across-difference-building-accountability-learning-infrastructure/) - At The Systems Sanctuary our approach to teaching systems practice is rooted in practical experience. Difference
- [Governance for System Change](https://networkweaver.com/governance-for-system-change/) - governance for system change may not look much like traditional governance at all
- [The paradox of transformation: acceptance as a precondition to change](https://networkweaver.com/the-paradox-of-transformation-acceptance-as-a-precondition-to-change/) - The radical potential of healthy shame... to return us to belonging. Change
- [Liberatory Governance... and belonging](https://networkweaver.com/liberatory-governance-and-belonging/) - How do we organize ourselves... in a world where everyone belongs? Belonging
- [People Stitching Earth | Oppression, Healing, Liberation, and Navigating the Terrain In Between](https://networkweaver.com/people-stitching-earth-oppression-healing-liberation-and-navigating-the-terrain-in-between/) - by Elissa Sloan Perry and Aja Couchois Duncan When we made it back home, back over those curved roadsthat wind through the city of peace, we stopped at thedoorway of dusk as it opened to our homelands.We gave thanks for the story, for all parts of the storybecause it was by the light
- [Weaving Networked Action for Systemic Change - A Practical Guide](https://networkweaver.com/weaving-networked-action-for-systemic-change-a-practical-guide/) - This short guide synthesizes the practice of weaving for leaders, social entrepreneurs, and facilitators looking for holistic ways to co-create systemic change.
- [Organizing Liberatory Networks: An Invitation](https://networkweaver.com/organizing-liberatory-networks-an-invitation/) - These are emerging reflections on the work we have done within networks, which includes networks for and led by people of color, multi-racial networks, queer networks, immigrant networks, and other groups that have come together to shift systems towards equity and liberation. liberatory
- [Power dynamics: A systemic inquiry](https://networkweaver.com/power-dynamics-a-systemic-inquiry/) - by Dr Anna Birney Why this article? Purpose and position The word power keeps popping up wherever I turn. Through my ten years of doing my doctorate action research it was all over my notes and reflections. I kept pushing it out of what I was writing about and feeling scared to even
- [Systems Practice, Abridged](https://networkweaver.com/systems-practice-abridged/) - 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 of systems thinking.
- [HEALING MEANS JUSTICE MEANS HEALING](https://networkweaver.com/healing-means-justice-means-healing/) - The data trail of racial wealth and health disparities in the path of COVID-19 is a story of deep injustice. But not the complete story.
- [Inclusive Networks Are Shaping Our Lives Right Now - Are They Governance?](https://networkweaver.com/inclusive-networks-are-shaping-our-lives-right-now-are-they-governance/) - Increasingly, networks that embrace diverse sectors and stakeholders are working together on shared issues and goals at all levels of society.
- [Everyone a Network Weaver](https://networkweaver.com/everyone-a-network-weaver/) - Mapping a Social Innovation Ecosystem in Portugal with: Filipa Carlos
- [A Network Connector Story](https://networkweaver.com/a-network-connector-story/) - When people take on the role of Network Weaver, they take responsibility for working with others to create healthier networks.
- [Communities of Practice for Network Weavers](https://networkweaver.com/communities-of-practice-for-network-weavers/) - by June Holley The most effective way for people to build their skills as Network Weavers is to set up a Community of Practice –a group of people who share an interest in developing skills in a particular area. A Community of Practice encourages people to identify their learning needs and organize training, coaching, and
- [Sociocracy: Why, What and Who?](https://networkweaver.com/sociocracy-why-what-and-who/) - Sociocracy is a set of tools and principles that ensure shared power. How does one share power?
- [Best Practices for Communities of Practice/ Learning Networks](https://networkweaver.com/best-practices-for-communities-of-practice-learning-networks/) - How do you develop a dynamic learning cluster or community of practice, with engaged members who are generous in sharing their knowledge and experience? These practices comes from my experience creating several communities of practices and a world-class professional network for leadership and organizational development consultants, the Boston Facilitators Roundtable. 1. Identify Community Guidelines Set guidelines
- [RE-AMP's Pool of Funds](https://networkweaver.com/re-amps-pool-of-funds/) - One of the issues for networks is how to determine priorities and have sufficient funding to support a set of innovative, experimental projects. RE-AMP
- [A NETWORK OF NETWORKS](https://networkweaver.com/a-network-of-networks/) - Here Ken Morse describes the Maine Network of Community Food Councils.
- [System Shifting Networks](https://networkweaver.com/system-shifting-networks/) - Not all networks are the same! If you are interested in transforming systems so that they are good for everyone, then you are probably helping people co-create a System Shifting Network.
- [Foodshed team learns how to establish consent instead of consensus](https://networkweaver.com/foodshed-team-learns-how-to-establish-consent-instead-of-consensus/) - This story begins when the AFP management team was making decisions about how they were going to award mini-grants to on-the-ground projects that addressed community food security.
- [Three Ways To Foster Education On Complexity Using Network Visualizations](https://networkweaver.com/three-ways-to-foster-education/) - Publishing a network visual like this not only helps spreading knowledge, but also triggers people to (inter)act. Further exploring these three paths to me looks like a promising strategy.
- [Why Dismantling Racism and White Supremacy Culture Unleashes the Benefits of Networks](https://networkweaver.com/why-dismantling-racism-and-white-supremacy-culture-unleashes-the-benefits-of-networks/) - network approaches cannot become transformative unless the network explicitly works on dismantling white supremacy culture and racism.
- [25 Behaviors That Support Strong Network Culture](https://networkweaver.com/25-behaviors-that-support-strong-network-culture/) - Networks can also deliver myriad benefits to individual participants,
- [Appreciative Reflections](https://networkweaver.com/appreciative-reflections/) - In this growing field of ‘Network Weaving’, it’s easy to connect quickly & begin to share work, ideas, resources and to bond in a real way, with people we’d normally consider strangers.
- [Learning about Change and Transformation](https://networkweaver.com/learning-about-change-and-transformation/) - Networks can also set up friendly fun systems to enable us to identify transformation
- [Criteria For A Design Process Emerging From Network Values](https://networkweaver.com/criteria-for-a-design-process-emerging-from-network-values/) - The design process is also an opportunity for participants to learn how to conduct co-design processes in their organizations and local networks.
- [What’s With The Network Weaving Thing?](https://networkweaver.com/whats-with-the-network-weaving-thing/) - by Greater Than the Sum I became a rabble-rousing, injustice-fighting, demonstrating, boycotting, marching, chanting, banner-carrying, strategizing, counter-culture activist early – by age 13 I’d faced my first line-up of National Guardsmen un-accompanied by any adults who knew me. By my mid-20’s, though, I was utterly disenchanted. The issues were still real & unacceptable, but activism
- [Network Governance](https://networkweaver.com/network-governance/) - Network governance is the idea that decision-making that is currently lodged in representative bodies such as congress or city councils can be shifted into self-organizing networks.
- [Stories of Network Value and Engagement](https://networkweaver.com/stories-of-network-value-and-engagement-2/) - “What is a story of a time that a network offered you value and you were excited enough to prioritize engagement with that network?
- [Stories of Network Value and Engagement](https://networkweaver.com/stories-of-network-value-and-engagement/) - “What is a story of a time that a network offered you value and you were excited enough to prioritize engagement with that network?
- [Conversations in Networks](https://networkweaver.com/conversations-in-networks/) - by Bruce Hoppe In early September I started collecting #MeToo tweets and stumbled into a big-data look at #MeToo and the Kavanaugh confirmation. As I posted previously, the Twitter network is radically split into red and blue factions. (FiveThirtyEight subsequently wrote about this divide, based not on Twitter but on polls, and arrived at the same conclusion.)
- [Designing Meetings that Do More](https://networkweaver.com/designing-meetings-that-do-more/) - by Beth Tener Imagine leaving a meeting feeling naturally inspired, energized by new ideas, with enhanced goodwill toward your colleagues, and a shared sense of alignment and clarity for where to go next. In a highly-functioning group, ideas and experiences cross-pollinate, perspectives broaden, assumptions shift, and something new emerges that no one could have discovered alone.
- [Network Strategies For Your Network](https://networkweaver.com/network-strategies-for-your-network/) - The following video is about 20 minutes long and provides a short overview of network strategies. It was done for the Food Policy Network State Networks, who graciously agreed to let me share it.
- [Trust in Networks is Fundamental to Social Change](https://networkweaver.com/trust-in-networks-is-fundamental-to-social-change/) - Trust is a core principle – in Chaos Theory, we’d call trust within human systems a powerful ‘Strange Attractor.’
- [Trust In Networks](https://networkweaver.com/trust-in-networks/) - Trust in networks is different than trust in organizations or coalitions where it is essential to spend time building trust among everyone
- [Thinking Like a Network 2.0](https://networkweaver.com/thinking-like-a-network-2-0/) - Networks are key to supporting life and liveliness – life is after all a network. A constant threat to aliveness is rigidity, hoarding and exclusion.
- [Creating as Life: A Regenerative Rebellion for Our Times](https://networkweaver.com/creating-as-life-a-regenerative-rebellion-for-our-times/) - Life is inherently creative. When we reclaim our innate creative impulse, we begin to dissolve the myth of separation from Life that domination relies upon.
- [A New Operating Model for Funding Networks](https://networkweaver.com/a-new-operating-model-for-funding-networks/) - Our in-depth research on funding networks bears out that current practice is based on an obsolete and inappropriate operating model
- [How a Convening is Different from a Conference: A New Way of Learning and Growing Together](https://networkweaver.com/how-a-convening-is-different-from-a-conference-a-new-way-of-learning-and-growing-together/) - A convening is not just a gathering—it’s a transformative experience designed to deepen relationships, spark creativity, and build a sense of shared purpose.
- [How to Set Up an Innovation Fund](https://networkweaver.com/how-to-set-up-an-innovation-funds/) - Innovation funds (also called seed funds or activation funds) are small regranting funds used to jump start innovation, collaboration and self-organizing in networks.
- [Ceremony: Reyoking the Sacred with Our Social Justice Work](https://networkweaver.com/ceremony-reyoking-the-sacred-with-our-social-justice-work/) - by Aja Couchois Duncan “Disability is an invitation to relationship…It’s that opening that creates the whole ecosystem.” 4 Kimmerer, Robin Wall. “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants.” Milkweed Editions. Minneapolis, MN. 2013. Pg. 58. 5 There are many written versions of this creation story. One of my favorites is `“You’ll Never Believe
- [How Marginalized Muslim Voices  Can be Amplified Through Collaborative Journalism](https://networkweaver.com/how-marginalized-muslim-voices-can-be-amplified-through-collaborative-journalism/) - As a Muslim journalist at Time Magazine, the idea of liberation goes beyond personal freedoms or the ability to move through the world unchallenged.
- [Incubator’s Dilemma, Investor’s Impact!](https://networkweaver.com/incubators-dilemma-investors-impact/) - Early-stage incubators often require support to set themselves up and launch operations.
- [Why Weave Networks Now?](https://networkweaver.com/why-weave-networks-now/) - “Why weave networks now?” We survive and thrive because of networks, both the ones that make up our bodies, as well as social and ecological webs.
- [BRINGING THE SYSTEM - The role of fiscal hosting in place based work](https://networkweaver.com/bringing-the-system-the-role-of-fiscal-hosting-in-place-based-work/) - I first came across fiscal hosting as a grant-maker, working in an institution that had been giving grants to organisations since its inception. We would check people’s registration, Boards of Trustees and recent accounts and use this information to understand their robustness and their ability to do the job they were set up to do.
- [Learning about learning networks](https://networkweaver.com/learning-about-learning-networks/) - In this article we have posed as many questions as answers. These concepts ask us to do, think, and relate to each other in ways that may look different to what we are used to.
- [Interrogating Erasure in Systems Change by Centering the Stories of Black Women as Collective Power in Weaving Equitable Experiences](https://networkweaver.com/interrogating-erasure-in-systems-change/) - Systems change and equity are embodied and connected through the various work examples highlighted to advance the current practice in the fields of equity, systems change, and collective leadership.
- [African Grandmothers As Network Weaving Social Technologies](https://networkweaver.com/african-grandmothers-as-network-weaving-social-technologies/) - In many places around the world, the elderly are considered a burden. Many are placed in care homes away from their families and communities.
- [Exploring multiscalar networks: What makes networks effective and transformative?](https://networkweaver.com/exploring-multiscalar-networks-what-makes-networks-effective-and-transformative/) - For lasting systemic transformation, working in networks across multiple initiatives and goals is an unavoidable requirement.
- [Transformative Networks Are Multiscalar](https://networkweaver.com/transformative-networks-are-multiscalar/) - This is an excerpt from the Network Weaver Handbook. I’ll be writing an update with my latest research and thinking on the topic in the coming weeks so stay tuned! – June Holley How does transformation of our systems happen? In the 1950s, researchers developed a model of the diffusion of innovation where, when influential
- [Join Us In Our Design and Learning Journey](https://networkweaver.com/join-us-in-our-design-and-learning-journey/) - Design and Learning
- [The Promise of Co-Design](https://networkweaver.com/the-promise-of-co-design/) - The Promise of Co-Design
- [What Is Self Organizing?](https://networkweaver.com/what-is-self-organizing/) - Self-organizing is perhaps the most important and least understood aspect of System Shifting Networks.
- [Starting a Self-Organizing Learning Group to Write a Book](https://networkweaver.com/starting-a-self-organizing-learning-group-to-write-a-book/) - Starting a Self-Organizing Learning Group
- [Introduction to Network Weaving: A Crash Course for Beginners](https://networkweaver.com/introduction-to-network-weaving-a-crash-course-for-beginners/) - by Adrian Röbke This article is for aspiring network weavers who seek to co-create systemic change. Network Weaving: A Missing Link for Systemic Change Picture this: You’re standing in a large room with people from different communities, organizations, and sectors. They’ve gathered, but most don’t know each other. At first, the room feels fragmented. Conversations Introduction to Network Weaving: A Crash Course for Beginners
- [How do Stories Strengthen our Movements and Strategies?](https://networkweaver.com/storytelling-and-movment-strategy/) - Jazz Kerr's reflections on storytelling and movement strategy is part of Network Weaver’s BIPOC Editorial series.
- [Capabilities for living labs and impact ecosystems](https://networkweaver.com/capabilities-for-living-labs-and-impact-ecosystems/) - roles and capabilities to effectively run social or living labs, and/or support and 'orchestrate' innovation & impact ecosystems.
- [Customizing a Theory of Change for your Network](https://networkweaver.com/customizing-a-theory-of-change-for-your-network/) - Impact networks bring people together to intentionally foster positive change. To do so, impact networks convene people around a shared purpose.
- [Joy as Reparative Rehumanization](https://networkweaver.com/joy-as-reparative-rehumanization/) - by Ari Honovar Ari Honovar’s reflections on the connection between art, joy and preserving humanity is part of Network Weaver’s BIPOC Editorial series. Learn more about the series and our submissions guidelines here. We invite you to connect with us at networkweaverblog@gmail.com For millennia, Indigenous cultures have embraced joy-driven artistic practices, intuitively understanding their profound impact on For millennia, Indigenous cultures have embraced joy-driven artistic practices, intuitively understanding their profound impact on human wellbeing.
- [Reaching Toward One Another](https://networkweaver.com/reaching-toward-one-another/) - In Network Building, Training, and WeavingBy Curtis Ogden In these times of splitting and splintering, I keep in mind a powerful experience from a few years ago when a team of us were working with a climate resilience planning initiative in the South Bronx in New York City. We had been brought in to support
- [NETWORK WEAVER: Shared Knowledge, Systems Change, Transformation - and a New Site!](https://networkweaver.com/network-weaver-shared-knowledge-systems-change-transformation-and-a-new-site/) - In OtherBy Marie DeMange, Network Weaver Network Weaver launched in 2018 as a spark of imagination and desire birthed through the portal of collaborative action. June Holley, the mother of Network Weaver, casually mentioned as I was dusting her living room one day (at the time, I was a public librarian turned cleaning business entrepreneur)
- [On Remedy and Redress as Network Principles](https://networkweaver.com/on-remedy-and-redress-as-network-principles/) - “I am trying to shape my despair into some form of action, but for now, I am standing on the cold edge of grief” – Terry Tempest Williams, “Erosion: Essays of Undoing” Once in a Resonance Network digital gathering space, someone pointed out that the words remedy, remedial, and medicine have the same
- [Network Leadership](https://networkweaver.com/network-leadership/) - Network leadership (or what I call network weaving) looks like a rhizome. If you have a patch of bamboo in your yard, you know how hard it is to get rid of. If you chop down a stalk, in a few days a new shoot sprouts up to fill the space. This is because underneath
- [Trainings from Visible Network Labs](https://networkweaver.com/trainings-from-visible-network-labs/) - Many people today are deeply engaged in the “network way of working”, driven by a conviction that working together will make a greater impact than going about any one project alone. Yet, while we are better than ever at getting groups of diverse partners together to work on an issue, there are very few places
- [Encouraging Innovation & Collaboration at the Grassroots: GoPhil Seed Grants in Nepal](https://networkweaver.com/encouraging-innovation-collaboration-at-the-grassroots-gophil-seed-grants-in-nepal/) - GoPhilanthropic is a US-based non-profit that helps grassroots organizations provide access to education, health and human rights in impoverished regions round the world. Co-Founded in 2011, our belief is that genuine philanthropy goes well beyond simply writing a check — philanthropy involves active engagement, investment and collaboration on all levels. Our vision is to
- [Stop the Madness: You can't train others on inclusive networks when your diversity is lacking](https://networkweaver.com/stop-the-madness-you-cant-train-others-on-inclusive-networks-when-your-diversity-is-lacking/) - I love June Holley. June has been committed to my success since day 1. Several years ago, we were both on a site created by MIchael Soto, called Spark Collaboration. June and I were matched and met virtually. From that moment, she used her power as an ally to open doors for collaboration. She
- [9 Things Teams Need for Successful Collaboration](https://networkweaver.com/9-things-teams-need-for-successful-collaboration/) - Across the U.S. and Canada, multi-stakeholder collaborative networks are addressing the systemic issues and wicked problems that cannot be solved by any one organization or institution alone. In the past 5 years here at Circle Forward, we’ve been working with these collaborative networks addressing regional food security, large scale landscape conservation, public health, economic and community development,
- [Weaving the Weavers : Efforts to co-create global learning and peer assist](https://networkweaver.com/weaving-the-weavers-efforts-to-co-create-global-learning-and-peer-assist/) - Let´s be honest Network Weaving is super fascinating. There are so many activities that we, network weavers, can contribute to to make communities vibrant and effective. Surely, you have your own story and connection to what got you into network weaving. We can seize modern technologies to connect and share these stories and our learnings.
- [Regenerative Innovation Ecosystems](https://networkweaver.com/regenerative-innovation-ecosystems/) - By Laila Martins & Jannik Kaiser Imagine a future where innovation isn’t just about the latest tech, but about healing our planet and uplifting our communities—that’s what Regenerative Innovation Ecosystems (RIE) are all about. In this article, we’ll explore the concept of Regenerative Innovation Ecosystems, which focus on building coalitions of diverse organisations or departments
- [From Silence to Strength: Weaving Networks of Empowerment and Liberation for Women Survivors](https://networkweaver.com/from-silence-to-strength-weaving-networks-of-empowerment-and-liberation-for-women-survivors/) - By Mercy Abdulsalam Mercy Abdulsalam’s reflections on Weaving Networks for Women Survivors is part of Network Weaver’s BIPOC Editorial series. Learn more about the series and our submissions guidelines here. We invite you to connect with us at networkweaverblog@gmail.com Weaving networks has been central to my work, particularly in uniting women from diverse backgrounds to build
- [Exploring the Contours of Systems Change](https://networkweaver.com/exploring-the-contours-of-systems-change/) - By Illuminate What follows is an excerpt from Exploring the contours of systems change: Weaving insights across Illuminate, offered by Illuminate This is a reflective piece authored by the Learning Weaving team at Illuminate, drawing upon the many conversations, Cohorts, and work facilitated during June and December of 2022. ‘Learning Weaving’ is the term Illuminate
- [Storytelling and Networks: Building Collective Power for Justice](https://networkweaver.com/storytelling-and-networks-building-collective-power-for-justice/) - By LaToya Wesley-Colm, Resonance Network LaToya’s reflections on storytelling and networks is part of Network Weaver’s BIPOC Editorial series. Learn more about the series and our submissions guidelines here. We invite you to connect with us at networkweaverblog@gmail.com Originally published in Resonance Network’s blog, The Reverb Resonance Network deeply understands the overwhelming impact that
- [FIND A RIVER: WHAT THE WATERS TEACH ABOUT CHANGE AND CHALLENGE](https://networkweaver.com/find-a-river/) - “Find a river, that flows to the seaput your feet in the water, carry you home.” -The Mitchell Twins, from the song “Find a River” Last week I had the opportunity to hear a talk given by Kari Kastango, who is the first person known to have swum the length of the Connecticut River.
- [IMPACT INCUBATOR PARTNERSHIPS & COLLABORATION INSIGHTS FROM THE FIELD](https://networkweaver.com/impact-incubator-partnerships-collaboration-insights-from-the-field/) - I ended up in Bangkok, by accident, earlier this year in May. It was the type of trip where the universe conspires to place you where you’re meant to be. I was making my first ever trip to Southeast Asia to meet impact incubators and accelerators – and new team members(!) – in Manila and
- [Expanding the Benefits of Networked Work](https://networkweaver.com/expanding-the-benefits-of-networked-work/) - What began as exasperation with dysfunctional organizations and boring meetings became a quest to discover what is possible with collaborative, networked work. My discovery process has led me to see that collaborative learning is what we can put at the center of how we work. We need a way to see how our individual work
- [Visionary Organizing Lab](https://networkweaver.com/visionary-organizing-lab/) - Visionary Organizing Lab began in 2016 as a volunteer based project conducting workshops on building beloved communities and a new economy. Since we began, research across disciplines and the political spectrum has increasingly demonstrated that the global economy is reaching its systemic limits and is in terminal crisis. Consequently, we are entering a global
- [How do we practice collective leadership when some parts of the leadership development practice feel individual?](https://networkweaver.com/how-do-we-practice-collective-leadership-when-some-parts-of-the-leadership-development-practice-feel-individual/) - Leadership Learning Community has spent a great deal of time and energy encouraging leadership funders and practitioners to expand and evolve their thinking on the very concept of leadership. To think about leadership not simply using what is called the “lone hero” model or lens. When the story of social change is told, it usually
- [Microtrends To Amplify for Transformation](https://networkweaver.com/microtrends-to-amplify-for-transformation/) - How does change happen? I saw a book in the airport about microtrends and how they give a glimpse of the possible future. Microtrends are new behaviors, actions or directions that are just starting to emerge but have the energy and excitement to expand into something significant. I’ve long thought that dramatic and rapid
- [For the Sake of Change: Consider the Vastness Not Entered](https://networkweaver.com/for-the-sake-of-change-consider-the-vastness-not-entered/) - Two pieces of art have been working me over lately. And I have been sharing them with others in different social justice spaces. One is a poem by Simon J. Ortiz, “Culture and the Universe,” shared with me by Mariana Velez Laris of The Nature Conservancy’s Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Network. The second is the book Race and the Cosmos by Barbara
- [MENDING THE COMMUNITY CUP](https://networkweaver.com/mending-the-community-cup/) - For years in conversations in organizations, within advocacy groups, and social change initiatives, I have heard variations of these themes: “We know we have to move beyond top-down approaches – how do we get more bottom up input and ideas?” “How do we get more diverse voices to the table? We need the input
- [SHIFTING A SYSTEM: The Reimagine Learning network and how to tackle persistent problems](https://networkweaver.com/shifting-a-system-the-reimagine-learning-network-and-how-to-tackle-persistent-problems/) - Some problems are simply too big for any one organization. One solution: a network of like-minded leaders working toward a common goal. Reimagine Learning, taking on systemic education issues, offers a successful model. In an increasingly complex business and social environment, many are looking for collective solutions to big problems. Networks can address sprawling issues
- [What’s Our Job?: Getting Clear on Network Functions](https://networkweaver.com/whats-our-job-getting-clear-on-network-functions/) - As I’ve worked with a variety of social change networks to launch or transition from one stage to another, I’ve been guided by the following formula: Form follows function follows focus My experience is that many groups and initiatives can get very concerned about structure – How will we make decisions? Who will be members? What
- [The Transformative Power of Networks of Networks](https://networkweaver.com/the-transformative-power-of-networks-of-networks/) - Three Level Networks for Transformation I’ve mentioned before that transformation or system shifting requires networks to be involved in networks of networks. This blog post will explain why every network needs to be part of and explicitly develop networks of networks to maximize their impact. Networks need to be part of three types of
- [Supporting Evidence-Informed Policymaking: A Case Study in Visualizing Twitter Networks](https://networkweaver.com/supporting-evidence-informed-policymaking-a-case-study-in-visualizing-twitter-networks/) - Claire Reinelt and I worked recently with Sarah Lucas at the Hewlett Foundation to help them better understand and support the emerging field of evidence-informed policymaking. We are excited to share this public report summarizing our findings and methods. We hope this 20-minute video presentation will be interesting to you, especially if you fund
- [Learning Weavers](https://networkweaver.com/learning-weavers/) - What are learning weavers? Why does your network need them? I’ve often thought that we need to spend much more time and energy making sense of and learning from what we are doing. Along with that, think how much our networks could benefit if they could share the many great ideas and practices that
- [Liberating Structures in Network Development](https://networkweaver.com/liberating-structures-in-network-development/) - When working in a network comprised of technical folks, it is easy stay in the familiar territory of presenting knowledge when the network gathers. Sometimes assumptions are made about scientists, policy makers, or engineers and how they prefer to interact at a face to face meeting. “Watch that “fluffy” stuff!” My sense is a lot
- [Start At Yes : building resilient networks](https://networkweaver.com/start-at-yes-building-resilient-networks/) - In working with communities to build resilient networks, I’ve noticed a pattern. Those who “start at yes” – listening for the possibilities, helping others make sense of their ideas, shining the light on contributors and the community as a whole – are vital to the health and hope of a network. As I encounter the
- [Consent-based Governance is a Great Choice for Collaborative Networks. Here’s why.](https://networkweaver.com/consent-based-governance-is-a-great-choice-for-collaborative-networks-heres-why/) - Part 1: Equity and Consent in Collaborative Networks In every area of public concern, we are seeing organizations from all sectors of society — non-profit, business, government and community — digging in to the hard, deep work of equity. The need for equity and inclusion, across race, gender, age, geography, and more, becomes acute when
- [Scaffolding for System Shifting Networks](https://networkweaver.com/scaffolding-for-system-shifting-networks/) - 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 easily and quickly. In nature, billions of soil organisms and mycorrhizal fungal mats work together to form this type of scaffolding to distribute resources and
- [Who Decides?](https://networkweaver.com/who-decides/) - In January, Nevada became the first state in the US to have women in the majority in the state legislature. This article from The Washington Post highlights how issues and bills are being debated that would “not have seen the light of day” in previous sessions: “Bills prioritizing women’s health and safety have soared to the top of the
- [The Importance of Learning in Networks](https://networkweaver.com/the-importance-of-learning-in-networks/) - We are seeing a shift in the social transformation space from evaluation to learning and support for change. Evaluation has too often been a judgment-based, funder driven approach to determining whether progress has taken place that tends to penalize risk-taking and innovation and focus mindlessly on outcomes even when it’s not clear what the solutions are.
- [Navigating Uncertainty to Gain the Real Value of Collaboration](https://networkweaver.com/navigating-uncertainty-to-gain-the-real-value-of-collaboration/) - PART 1 Investing in Collaboration A client recently called us her “network therapists.” She works for a foundation and was helping launch a network. The foundation saw that if organizations in a region could work in a networked way they could achieve greater impact and have a stronger political voice. However, the organizations had
- [Organizations as Communities](https://networkweaver.com/organizations-as-communities/) - * * * Many people have asked how their network can function when organizations remain in their traditional hierarchical structures. Sahana’s post explains how organizations, especially those in networks, need to shift and change. – June * * * Part 1 Designing orgs as communities make for responsive, thrivable organizations The very definition of organizations
- [Appreciating the Complexity of Human Ecosystems](https://networkweaver.com/appreciating-the-complexity-of-human-ecosystems/) - 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 even messier! As a practitioner it’s my job to pay attention and support healthy, productive patterns that emerge from the network’s ecosystem. I was first
- [FAC Net is Changing Fire Adaptation Work: Highlights from our Evaluation](https://networkweaver.com/fac-net-is-changing-fire-adaptation-work-highlights-from-our-evaluation/) - Editor’s note: This blog is focused on sharing stories and information about living with fire. Occasionally, we also publish content related to social-change networks: the “how” in our approach to fire adaptation. Any system-shifting endeavor should consider the role of evaluation in their work. Complete with moving targets, changing conditions, long time horizons between now
- [Learning to Breathe in the Network Era](https://networkweaver.com/learning-to-breathe-in-the-network-era/) - The networked workplace is the new reality. It’s always on and globally connected. This is where all organizations are going, at different speeds and in a variety of ways. Some won’t make it. In many organizations the outside world is better connected than inside the workplace. This makes it difficult to connect at the
- [A Loosely-woven Basket to Contain a Thought](https://networkweaver.com/a-loosely-woven-basket-to-contain-a-thought/) - In Whose Story Is This? (A Hero Is a Disaster, 2019), Rebecca Solnit reminds us of Ursula Le Guin’s proposal of “the bottle as hero.” By this Le Guin means that instead of the easily-accessible dramatic story of the male-brandishing-spear and hunt being “heroic,” she considers women’s work of gathering into a bottle or basket
- [Ripple Effect Mapping](https://networkweaver.com/ripple-effect-mapping/) - Because networks often engage many people, some of whom are only occasionally involved, it is harder to track the impact of the network. One solution to this might be the use of a technique called Ripple Effect Mapping. Historically this process was done during a face-to-face session but I believe it could also be
- [A PATH OF LEARNING, RECOGNIZING AND HONOURING TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION](https://networkweaver.com/a-path-of-learning-recognizing-and-honouring-truth-and-reconciliation/) - It was the release of the Truth & Reconciliation Commission reports that nudged our organization to read, reflect and better understand how we could both as an organization and network learn our country’s history and advance truth and reconciliation. We had been intentional about recruiting someone to serve on our board of directors from the Indigenous community
- [DEEPER THAN HAIR DISCRIMINATION: A MOVEMENT TO ADDRESS AND DISMANTLE SYSTEMIC RACISM](https://networkweaver.com/deeper-than-hair-discrimination-a-movement-to-address-and-dismantle-systemic-racism/) - When I graduated from Columbia University, I was informed in a professional development workshop at a national conference that my hair should not distract from my excellent credentials. I did not understand how hair that grew naturally out of my scalp could be labelled as a source of barriers. The styles that were mentioned
- [WHO AM I](https://networkweaver.com/who-am-i/) - PART I. (This is the translated song that my mother and I sing at the end of the documentary.) Sudan’s Echo By: Adhel Arop The sky weeps my country screams I watch in agony the eyes of the people I love dearly tell stories of sadness they are children who have become broken adults
- [DECENTRALIZED NETWORKS AND THE BLACK RADICAL TRADITION – PART 1](https://networkweaver.com/decentralized-networks-and-the-black-radical-tradition-part-1/) - FROM COLLECTIVE ORGANIZING TO BUILDING BLACK FUTURES Every second Thursday of the month, Network Weavers Yasmin Yonis, Kiara Nagel and Marie DeMange host a Community of Practice conversation on Zoom. The skill-building space is available for network weavers who want to create connections and to explore questions central to their roles as facilitators, consultants and movement
- [CULTURAL RACISM – A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE](https://networkweaver.com/cultural-racism-a-personal-experience/) - Dr. Froswa’ Booker-Drew is a Partnership Broker. Relational Leadership Junkie. Connector. Author/Speaker/Trainer. She graciously gave permission to Network Weaver to publish her recent facebook post (below) in response to the murder of George Floyd and the issue of police brutality – offering her personal experience with cultural racism and advice for white friends on how
- [BRAVE QUESTIONS: RECALCULATING PAY EQUITY](https://networkweaver.com/brave-questions-recalculating-pay-equity/) - Asking Brave Questions Perhaps it was a gutsy move. The four of us, a multi-racial team of independent consultants for social justice organizations, working with a local food justice nonprofit on values alignment, including pay equity. We sat in a circle in our client’s empty office to negotiate and decide how we wanted
- [DECENTRALIZED NETWORKS PART II: THE REVOLUTION WILL BE BUILT ON TRUST](https://networkweaver.com/decentralized-networks-part-ii-the-revolution-will-be-built-on-trust/) - In this month’s feature, Kei Williams shares their “activating moment,” touches on movement building tools and shares their admiration for structural networks that are not only principles-based but continue to grow and meet the needs of the community. Material for this blog was compiled and transcribed by Sadia Hassan from the Decentralized Networks and the Black Radical Tradition
- [INTERSECTIONALITY IN NETWORKS AND ORGANIZATION: WIDENING THE SCOPE OF INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY](https://networkweaver.com/intersectionality-in-networks-and-organization-widening-the-scope-of-inclusion-and-diversity/) - Growing up, I remember my mother rising daily before the sun to make her way to work. After preparing herself for the day, she’d make a tiring journey into work, consisting primarily of easing slowly along the highway behind other workers headed in to start the day. From a young age, my mother’s commitment
- [How to Reduce Stress and Increase Learning: The Power of Professional Networks During COVID](https://networkweaver.com/how-to-reduce-stress-and-increase-learning-the-power-of-professional-networks-during-covid/) - “I am a nervous wreck, I am way behind on my fundraising, my staff is not getting along, I don’t know how to support them, I lost a major donor, and I feel so alone,” said Aron, an Executive Director of a nonprofit, a few months into COVID. After almost eight months of
- [June Holley's Network Weaving Institute](https://networkweaver.com/june-holleys-network-weaving-institute/) - June Holley has created a new entity, the Network Weaving Institute, so that you can easily track and collaborate in her writing and set up time for consultations with her. June has been weaving networks, helping others weave networks and writing about networks for over 40 years. She is currently increasing her capacity
- [Collective Mind Community Conversations](https://networkweaver.com/collective-mind-community-conversations/) - The impact of the pandemic on networks: Learning from network managers’ experiences Collective Mind hosts regular Community Conversations with our global learning community. These sessions create space for network professionals to connect, share experiences, and cultivate solutions to common problems experienced by networks. In November 2020, Collective Mind hosted a special series of our regular
- [From Rugged Individualism to Self-Organized Connected Communities](https://networkweaver.com/from-rugged-individualism-to-self-organized-connected-communities/) - In American culture, we tend to prize individual leadership, as illustrated by these examples: the self-made man, the hopes we put in one candidate to solve our problems, the entrepreneur with a new technology or solution, and the non-profit that comes into a community with an innovative project. In reality, any person who comes up
- [How learning ecosystems evolve and how can leaders weave the whole change process](https://networkweaver.com/how-learning-ecosystems-evolve-and-how-can-leaders-weave-the-whole-change-process/) - Weaving educational ecosystems in our districts and cities has become one of the greatest worldwide challenges for our systems to enhance learning and equity for the new era. The UNESCO (2020) publication “Education in a Post-COVID World: Nine Ideas for Public Action” indicates that those communities that have responded in an innovative, effective and resilient
- [The Power of Communities in Uncertain Times — Part 1](https://networkweaver.com/the-power-of-communities-in-uncertain-times-part-1/) - When systems collapse, people rise… A tiny, invisible, and obscure virus has thrown the world into chaos. It has flummoxed and baffled nations, countries, politicians, scientists, doctors, presidents, principals, parents, students, in short, everyone. The gears of the post-Industrial world have ground to a juddering halt for the first time in history. A great
- [The Power of Communities in Uncertain Times — Part 2](https://networkweaver.com/the-power-of-communities-in-uncertain-times-part-2/) - The questions we ask today will define the future we create tomorrow… When the Stranger says: “What is the meaning of this city?Do you huddle close together because you love each other?”What will you answer? “We all dwell togetherTo make money from each other”? or “This is a community”?Oh my soul, be prepared for
- [The Square, the Tower, and the Circle:](https://networkweaver.com/the-square-the-tower-and-the-circle/) - The Blind Spot in the Stewardship of Locally Led Systems Change Networks The Plight of the Social Activist Many social activists can relate to the following scenario. They sign up for an intensive training in a beautiful nearby region, with the intention of networking with fellow activists and learning about social change
- [Organizing models for social change: Networks as an inclusive category](https://networkweaver.com/organizing-models-for-social-change-networks-as-an-inclusive-category/) - 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 terms — networks, movements, alliances, consortiums, coalitions, communities, partnerships, forums, initiatives, campaigns, and more — for how people and groups are organized across geographies and topics to
- [Can problem-solving itself be problematic?](https://networkweaver.com/can-problem-solving-itself-be-problematic/) - Intelligence is usually defined in terms of capacities like the ability to learn, to plan, to recognize patterns and to solve problems. So it has been hard for me – as an advocate of collective intelligence – to come to terms with the profound short-comings of problem-solving. Problem-solving is universally respected and applied: If
- [“Lean Weaving”: Creating Networks for a Future of Resilience and Regeneration](https://networkweaver.com/lean-weaving-creating-networks-for-a-future-of-resilience-and-regeneration/) - I’m fInishing up David Fleming’s book Surviving the Future, and buzzing with ideas and questions about the role of networks, network weaving and energy network science in these times of “systemic release” (see the adaptive cycle below, and more about the cycle here). Fleming’s book, a curated collection of essays from the heftier Lean Logic, offers some compelling thinking about
- [From Nature’s Mutualistic Networks to More Resilient Human Networks](https://networkweaver.com/from-natures-mutualistic-networks-to-more-resilient-human-networks/) - We have been taught to live in a competitive, survival-of-the-fittest world. But what if this has been wrong? What if the natural world, and the humans in it, are much more cooperative than competitive? The idea of the survival of the fittest originated in Darwin’s Origin of Species, and his theory of natural selection. Sure,
- [Leadership and Community in a Time of Transition](https://networkweaver.com/leadership-and-community-in-a-time-of-transition/) - In communal transformation, leadership is about intention, convening, valuing relatedness, and presenting choices. It is not a personality characteristic or a matter of style, and therefore it requires nothing more than what all of us already have. This means we can stop looking for leadership as though it were scarce or lost, or it
- [Patterns of Collective Flight](https://networkweaver.com/patterns-of-collective-flight/) - This article is dedicated to my fellow super-connectors, movement weavers, story activators, and of course, visionary poets and meta-pattern identifiers — all of whom are seeking to create a more just and equitable world. They include: those who design new economies and value exchanges through open innovation and knowledge sharing; those who strategically connect
- [6 Tips for Making Online Collaboration More Productive and Engaging](https://networkweaver.com/6-tips-for-making-online-collaboration-more-productive-and-engaging/) - In reflecting on a meeting I helped organize for a multi-organization, multi-stakeholder network, I realized that there’s more to online collaboration than using the right technology and best practices. In July 2020 a survey was conducted by Collective Impact Forum about how collaboration has changed as a result of the combined effects of COVID-19, a
- [Trust Emerges Over Time](https://networkweaver.com/trust-emerges-over-time/) - Imagine a research-intensive organization where scientists should be sharing what they learn, and the official company policy is to share information and expertise among public and private partners. However, the company is ‘downsizing’ and layoffs are based on performance reviews. If one scientist helps a peer develop a patented product, and as a result
- [The Story of the Clouds and the Forest](https://networkweaver.com/the-story-of-the-clouds-and-the-forest/) - There’s a story one often hears in conversations about systemic transformation that goes like this… We are headed in the wrong direction and there’s very little time to reverse course. Because of the scale and speed of the change that is required, the hundreds of thousands (or even millions) of small groups currently
- [Thinking Like an Octopus (and With a Collaborative Heart): Evolving and Interlocking Networks](https://networkweaver.com/thinking-like-an-octopus-and-with-a-collaborative-heart-evolving-and-interlocking-networks/) - “You’ve got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it.” Toni Morrison A network that I have been a part of for a number of years is seeing the emergent proliferation and strengthening of other related networks (some more adjacent than
- [How to build your network skills and approaches](https://networkweaver.com/how-to-build-your-network-skills-and-approaches/) - Collective Mind is on a mission – to equip network leaders and managers with the skills and approaches to make their networks effective and impactful. We exist because we believe in the power of networks to foster collective action, especially in support of systems change and addressing hard, complex problems. We also know from
- [Taking a Virtual Breath](https://networkweaver.com/taking-a-virtual-breath/) - This week, Network Weaver is excited to share a 3-part series by Root. Rise. Pollinate! on fostering connection in virtual space. The series was originally published earlier this year at The Reverb. How shared practices can create depth and connection despite physical separation As we settle into our second year of physical separation wrought
- [Embodied Practice](https://networkweaver.com/embodied-practice/) - This week, Network Weaver is excited to share a 3-part series by Root. Rise. Pollinate! on fostering connection in virtual space. The series was originally published earlier this year at The Reverb. How to bring movement practice into virtual space to foster connection with our bodies’ wisdom In our first post we shared the importance of
- [Intergenerational Practice and Space](https://networkweaver.com/intergenerational-practice-and-space/) - This week, Network Weaver is excited to share a 3-part series by Root. Rise. Pollinate! on fostering connection in virtual space. The series was originally published earlier this year at The Reverb. How we can create beautiful connections and discoveries across generations. Posts one and two of this series focused on setting virtual space and intentionally cultivating and
- [A Network of Support for Racial Equity Leaders](https://networkweaver.com/a-network-of-support-for-racial-equity-leaders/) - Working to advance racial equity in systems and organizations is challenging and often isolating work. REASN – the Racial Equity Action Support Network – is a network in Minneapolis St. Paul that brings together Minnesota’s racial equity leaders and practitioners, the people whose job it is to design, facilitate and lead the efforts that
- [Building Community Food Webs](https://networkweaver.com/building-community-food-webs/) - Ken Meter’s book, Building Community Food Webs. was released by Island Press on April 29. The book highlights the importance of community network-building as a core part of building community-based food systems, and shows that building mutual trust over decades is critical to success. Chapter 6 features Appalachian Center for Economic Network’s (ACEnet) persistent work,
- [The Wisdom of W.A.I.T.ing: Mindful Sharing in a Network Age](https://networkweaver.com/the-wisdom-of-w-a-i-t-ing-mindful-sharing-in-a-network-age/) - “We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.” — Zeno of Citium The other day I was reminded of the group working agreement “W.A.I.T.” (which stands for, “Why am I talking?”) as a guideline for people to be mindful of sharing air time in discussions. Since
- [Centering equity within networks](https://networkweaver.com/centering-equity-within-networks/) - Collective Mind hosts regular Community Conversations with our global learning community. These sessions create space for network professionals to connect, share experiences, and cultivate solutions to common problems experienced by networks. Our April 21, 2021, the Collective Mind Learning Community welcomed Ericka Stallings, Executive Director of Leadership Learning Community, to share her experiences, learnings, and
- [5 Strategies for Combining Equity with Sociocracy](https://networkweaver.com/5-strategies-for-combining-equity-with-sociocracy/) - The key promise of sociocracy is that all voices matter. In reality our current sociocracy practices are not enough to overcome the way society systemically oppresses the voices of people from poor, non-white, transgender, disabled, et cetera, backgrounds. Examples of how this dynamic can show up Everyone speaks in rounds at a meeting but
- [Who Decides Who Decides?](https://networkweaver.com/who-decides-who-decides/) - Have you ever started a group that started with enthusiasm and fizzled out over time? I have. Even more often, I have joined groups that other people started… that fizzled out over time. So, what happened? If your experiences are similar to mine, here are some typical stories. Groups start out with a vague
- [From Learning to Doing](https://networkweaver.com/from-learning-to-doing/) - How do more of us help create a world that is good for all of us? Many of us have been attending at least a few of the hundreds of enticing webinars that have been available during the last pandemic year, but somehow have not been able to actually apply what we have learned
- [Reimagining a Regenerative Future — Part 1](https://networkweaver.com/reimagining-a-regenerative-future-part-1/) - Navigating radical uncertainty with radical tenderness… MATURITY is the ability to live fully and equally in multiple contexts; most especially, the ability, despite our grief and losses, to courageously inhabit the past, the present and the future all at once. The wisdom that comes from maturity is recognized through a disciplined refusal to choose between
- [Reimagining a Regenerative Future — Part 2](https://networkweaver.com/reimagining-a-regenerative-future-part-2/) - Scripting new stories, seeking the unseen, unheard, unknown, unacknowledged… The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Emerson’s line couldn’t have been truer as we enter the third decade of the 21st century. The world is literally and metaphorically dying from ‘civilization’ and
- [Reimagining a Regenerative Future — Part 3](https://networkweaver.com/reimagining-a-regenerative-future-part-3/) - Creating narratives that are harbingers of life-affirming paradigm shifts This is an extraordinary time full of vital, transformative movements that could not be foreseen. It’s also a nightmarish time. Full engagement requires the ability to perceive both. ~Rebecca Solnit quoted in Brainpickings We live in a profoundly damaged world, a wounded and a
- [A Poetic Ecology of Networks: Moving From “It” and “So That” to “Us” and “As”](https://networkweaver.com/a-poetic-ecology-of-networks-moving-from-it-and-so-that-to-us-and-as/) - Networks are fundamental to life, to liveliness and to livelihood. There is growing recognition of this fact. And at the same time, the frame through which one views networks has a lot to say about how one might be living out and into their potential, or not. For example, I still see people a bit
- [Critical support for network leaders and managers](https://networkweaver.com/critical-support-for-network-leaders-and-managers/) - We could all use a little support, especially these days. At Collective Mind, we believe that we can best support network leaders and managers by providing them with evidence-based training and materials, and spaces in which they can connect and learn from one another. As the founder, my own personal experience of being a
- [Creating a supportive network culture](https://networkweaver.com/creating-a-supportive-network-culture/) - Collective Mind hosts regular Community Conversations with our global learning community. These sessions create space for network professionals to connect, share experiences, and cultivate solutions to common problems experienced by networks. Our June 16th Community Conversation welcomed Sé Franklin, a coordinator from MenEngage Europe, to share his network’s experiences around developing a core set of
- [Seed + Spark](https://networkweaver.com/seed-spark/) - Sam Chaltain produced the wonderful book Seed + Spark as part of a collaboration between 180 STUDIO and ECKENHOFF SAUNDERS. This is a gorgeous and magical tour, one that I encourage you to explore. I found so much new information here and found the many stories they included to illustrate each chapter’s theme inspiring and insightful.
- [Rising Through Resilience: Dr Froswa’ Booker-Drew On The Five Things You Can Do To Become More Resilient](https://networkweaver.com/rising-through-resilience/) - Watch your thinking. One of my favorite quotes is “Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits.” Everything starts as a thought. Pay attention to what you think about yourself and the situations you face. It can determine your results/outcome.
- [The Web of Change](https://networkweaver.com/the-web-of-change/) - Creating Impact Through Networks The following post is excerpted from the introduction of Impact Networks: Create Connection, Spark Collaboration, and Catalyze Systemic Change, now available in print, as an audiobook, and as an ebook. Since the beginning of our species, humans have formed networks. Our social networks grow whenever we introduce our
- [Energy Network Literacy: On Care-full Dis-Connection, Dis-Entanglement and Regenerative Flow Management](https://networkweaver.com/energy-network-literacy-on-care-full-dis-connection-dis-entanglement-and-regenerative-flow-management/) - “i think of movements as intentional worlds, or perhaps more accurately as worlds designed by and for intentional people, those who are able to feel the world not as an unfolding accident of random occurrences, but rather as a massive weaving of intention. you can be tossed about, you can follow someone else’s pattern,
- [2021: deep transformation or shallow change?](https://networkweaver.com/2021-deep-transformation-or-shallow-change/) - 2021 is pivotal to creating the future we want. We know that we have less than a decade to address the climate crisis, and that the commitments made this year will determine whether that is possible. We also know that we have an unprecedented opportunity to steer the investments that have been unlocked to
- [Explicitly Building a Periphery for Your Network](https://networkweaver.com/explicitly-building-a-periphery-for-your-network/) - A number of my writings have outlined strategies for weaving a network, but none have detailed the importance of and processes involved in building a network periphery. This blog post will guide you, step-by-step, through a process you can use with participants in your network. First a definition. A periphery consists of people who
- [Governance – the overlooked route to transformation: How can we best organise for change?](https://networkweaver.com/governance-the-overlooked-route-to-transformation-how-can-we-best-organise-for-change/) - What are the current governance approaches and ways of organising that are being used in attempts to create systems change? What would more systemic governance approaches for our work look/feel like and how might we transition to these? Part one in a series of four exploring the future of how we govern and organise. Co-written
- [Transforming Impact : how evaluation and impact are shifting](https://networkweaver.com/transforming-impact/) - Key takeaways from the session were: Some of the key themes Insights and breakthroughs come from investing proper time in reflection and learning, which we’re not currently doing. Power dynamics are embedded into evaluation systems through inflexible questions which signal a lack of trust. The process needs to be more participatory since it
- [Funding networks: Answering the what, why, and how](https://networkweaver.com/funding-networks-answering-the-what-why-and-how/) - Networks often require donor funding to undertake activities to achieve their visions and missions. But, as we so often hear in our work with networks, mobilizing and managing adequate funds pose a host of challenges, both for networks and their donors. And, given the paucity of existing research, the fundamental questions of what, why,
- [Into the Matrix and Beyond: The Value of Network Values and Values-Focused Processes](https://networkweaver.com/into-the-matrix-and-beyond-the-value-of-network-values-and-values-focused-processes/) - A couple of years after the Food Solutions New England Network officially published the New England Food Vision, and just after the network formally committed to working for racial equity in the food system, it formally adopted a set of four core values. On the FSNE website, a preamble reads: “We collectively believe that the food
- [Being a strange attractor](https://networkweaver.com/being-a-strange-attractor/) - This article forms the first in an intended series of articles. The main theme of that series is to reflect on a new language for social transformation. For me, language goes beyond words, concepts or metaphors. Essentially, it is the filter through which we look on life, perceive our environment and plan our actions. Changing
- [THE TAPESTRY: Weaving Life Stories](https://networkweaver.com/thetapestry/) - You are invited to listen to The Tapestry Podcast. The podcast is about bringing people together to explore the rich, woven textures of our narratives. Our stories are impactful and in listening to the stories of others, we learn more about our own power, claim our purpose and pursue our passion. The fabric of
- [The illusion of hopelessness](https://networkweaver.com/the-illusion-of-hopelessness/) - The war in Ukraine is a symptom of something bigger— and within reach In times of war, we are led to believe we are powerless. We are told that violence is inevitable, an unfortunate part of the way things are. And that the way things are cannot change. As world events have
- [Bridge the Gap between Vision and Reality: a webinar offering](https://networkweaver.com/bridge-the-gap-between-vision-and-reality-a-webinar-offering/) - It’s a joy when self-organization works well. It’s a drag when it doesn’t. The gap between how it can be – or should be – and what it is can sometimes be too big. That’s especially true when individual team members lack flexibility and self-reflection, when decision making by the team is driven
- [Dr. Froswa' Booker-Drew](https://networkweaver.com/froswa-booker-drew/) - Froswa’ Booker-Drew, Ph.D. is a Network Weaver who believes relationships are the key to our personal, professional, and organizational growth. She has been quoted/featured in Forbes, Ozy, Bustle, Huffington Post, Modern Luxury, and other media outlets, due to an extensive background in leadership, nonprofit management, philanthropy, partnership development, training, and education. She is the CEO
- [The Art of Measuring Change](https://networkweaver.com/the-art-of-measuring-change/) - What are your associations with words such as “measurement”, “evaluation” or “indicator”? For many people these words sound annoying at best, and there are good reasons for it. Yet – given the fact that you clicked on this article – it’s also very likely that you are motivated to contribute to social change, and
- [Experimenting Towards Liberated Governance](https://networkweaver.com/experimenting-towards-liberated-governance/) - Over a year ago, Vu Le published an article about the current models for nonprofit boards. The title “The default nonprofit board model is archaic and toxic; let’s try some new models” doesn’t bury the lede. Of the current models, Le writes: “Over the years, we have developed a learned helplessness, thinking that this
- [Adapting a network’s theory of change](https://networkweaver.com/adapting-a-networks-theory-of-change/) - Collective Mind hosts regular Community Conversations with our global learning community. These sessions create space for network professionals to connect, share experiences, and cultivate solutions to common problems experienced by networks. On September 22nd, 2021 we met with Carri Munn from Context for Action and Amelia Pape from Converge for our first Community Conversation of the
- [MAKING LARGE EVENTS PARTICIPATORY](https://networkweaver.com/making-large-events-participatory/) - This blog was originally published in October, 2019, when we couldn’t foresee that most large events would cease. As we anticipate meeting again in person, I hope the approaches here give you ideas. You might like to check out my new meeting design coaching services. It’s possible to make large events participatory and interactive.
- [Governance is how we choose to be together](https://networkweaver.com/governance-is-how-we-choose-to-be-together/) - An illustrated story of liberatory governance practice Storytelling — like governance — can take many forms. When choosing new ways of being together, we begin with ourselves — in our bodies, hearts, spirits. The choice to be in governance rooted in mutual care is an embodied one. Once it rests within us, the
- [The Angel's Mafia: elements to be addressed in peacebuilding governance](https://networkweaver.com/the-angels-mafia-elements-to-be-addressed-in-peacebuilding-governance/) - Our Better Angels need to get their act together. I find myself looking back at five years working in peacebuilding and conflict transformation. Almost as long as I spent working as a mechanical engineer in the aerospace field. The business of designing and building spacecraft has one commonality with the “business” of building
- [From Learning to Doing](https://networkweaver.com/from-learning-to-doing-2/) - Many years ago I was teaching high school English on a small island in SE Alaska. I asked the class to compare a piece of literature to the story of the Three Little Pigs. Half of the class couldn’t do the assignment because they had never heard of the story of the Three Little
- [Return on Relationships: Four Ingredients of Trust](https://networkweaver.com/return-on-relationships-four-ingredients-of-trust/) - Trust has become something of a buzzword. Most people will acknowledge that it’s important, yet many see it as a byproduct of other activities, rather than something that should be cultivated deliberately. On the contrary, the web of connections that develops between participants is the invisible structure that holds all types of collaborative communities
- [Reclaiming Choice and Agency in a Networked World](https://networkweaver.com/reclaiming-choice-and-agency-in-a-networked-world/) - Welcome! We are happy you chose to open this blog post! In this article we will explore: The difference between choice and decision; and why awareness of choice matters – as a (fundamental) way to engage with life. Different levels of networks & systems and how to navigate the levels with agency. How to
- [Building Trust Through Grantee Feedback](https://networkweaver.com/building-trust-through-grantee-feedback/) - Here are some more thoughts from Nilekani, John, and Joshi on several key elements of centering trust in their approach: Starting with Trust is Important Rohini Nilekani (RN): We’ve all been on the other side (of the funding table) and know how hard it is. Things change so quickly on the ground. We need
- [Inside philanthropy and networks](https://networkweaver.com/inside-philanthropy-and-networks/) - Collective Mind hosts regular Community Conversations with our global learning community. These sessions create space for network professionals to connect, share experiences, and cultivate solutions to common problems experienced by networks. In July 2021, Collective Mind hosted a unique Community Conversation panel discussion about philanthropy and networks. The session featured experts who work across the philanthropic space
- [Networks: Resourcing Relationships and Interdependence for an Equitable Future Now](https://networkweaver.com/networks-resourcing-relationships-and-interdependence-for-an-equitable-future-now/) - We Used Art Making to Illuminate Power Differences and Start Deeper Conversations about Power Sharing in Networks Starting with this creative exercise created a bridge to harder conversations about the barriers to equity in resourcing networks such as how money is distributed across network participants, inappropriate use of power, or challenges that come up when
- [On Collective Liberation and Natural Networks: an Interview with LLC’s Nikki Dinh and Ericka Stallings](https://networkweaver.com/on-collective-liberation-and-natural-networks-an-interview-with-llcs-nikki-dinh-and-ericka-stallings/) - I was able to meet with the Co-Executive Directors of the Learning Leadership Community, an organization I’ve long admired for their commitment to a community-focused transformative leadership practice. This past year, LLC was able to return to a co-Executive Director model which has freed up both Nikki Dinh and Ericka Stallings to focus on
- [Coaching for Awareness-Based Systems Change](https://networkweaver.com/coaching-for-awareness-based-systems-change/) - In the fall of 2019, a few of the founders of the Illuminate network (including CoCreative, Garfield Foundation, McConnell Foundation, and Academy for Systems Change) collaboratively hosted a gathering of systems change “capacity-builders” who work as independent consultants or in small collectives as facilitators and advisors, from the US, Canada, Mexico, UK, EU, and
- [Energy System Science for Network Weavers: A Summary](https://networkweaver.com/energy-system-science-for-network-weavers-a-summary/) - “Culture is a verb.” – Rowen White, Seed Keeper, activist and farmer from the Mohawk community of Akwesasne “It’s all about how things are flowing.” – Gwen McClellan, acupressurist and holistic healer “A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool.” – Alan Watts,
- [What do we mean by “community”?](https://networkweaver.com/what-do-we-mean-by-community/) - Since the inception of Building Belonging, we’ve wrestled internally with this question: what are we? On our homepage we say we are: A home for people committed to building a world where everyone belongs… We are a community of people working toward transformation and liberation: of ourselves, our societies, and the world. And yet our
- [Reclaiming Care Beyond Roe v. Wade](https://networkweaver.com/reclaiming-care-beyond-roe-v-wade/) - originally published at The Reverb Resonance Network is a national network of people building a world beyond violence. Network Weaver is dedicated to offering free content to all – in support of equity, justice and transformation for all. We appreciate your support! donate in the box above or click here
- [What is Network Weaving? - Q & A with June Holley](https://networkweaver.com/what-is-network-weaving/) - Q: What is network weaving? A: Network weaving is something that we all do. It’s paying attention to the relationships around you and noticing who’s missing, who’s not being listened to, and helping create healthier, deeper relationships. You do this by bringing new people in, by connecting people within your existing networks, and helping them get
- [Failing Productively in Systems Change: Key Mindsets & Practices](https://networkweaver.com/failing-productively-in-systems-change-key-mindsets-practices/) - Download the slide deck we used in this session. We also invite you to explore these links to learn more: Read Lisa Attygalle’s paper Creating a Culture of Engagement which explores the fear we might feel when deeply engaging citizens in community change work Check out Fail Forward to develop skills in learning from
- [Being in the humanity of governance, with all its messiness and joy](https://networkweaver.com/being-in-the-humanity-of-governance-with-all-its-messiness-and-joy/) - Reflections from the WeGovern Learning Community How do we build ways of being that uplift the collective dignity, wholeness, and thriving of one another and the lands we inhabit? How do we build ways of being where our collective wellbeing is carried by community? How do we create opportunities to live a
- [Belonging to ourselves, each other, and the earth](https://networkweaver.com/belonging-to-ourselves-each-other-and-the-earth/) - From decolonization to… re-indigenization? I’ve found myself increasingly interested in the promise of ‘embodiment’: the possibilities inherent in the seemingly simple act of being attuned to what our bodies are telling us. Thus far I’ve explored that concept primarily through the lens of the self, of the ‘I.’ But there’s more to it than that,
- [Applying regenerative practice to systems beyond place — some thoughts](https://networkweaver.com/applying-regenerative-practice-to-systems-beyond-place-some-thoughts/) - By way of introduction: spiky fruit It’s the first of October, and I’ve been writing this piece for over half a year! Yesterday this cactus caught my eye. The spiky leaves and the ripe fruit spoke to me of the necessity to take these unpolished thoughts and offer them up. If handled carefully
- [Weaving at Work](https://networkweaver.com/weaving-at-work/) - Over the past few years, I have been increasingly influenced by the concept of “weaving” — what for me means connecting people, ideas, and projects to foster more collaborative social change. Weaving is a skill, a mindset, and a way of being. More art than science, it requires deep listening, being responsive to interests and
- [Reframing Power and Embracing What is Possible](https://networkweaver.com/reframing-power-and-embracing-what-is-possible/) - Lighting the Candle of Liberatory Governance As phase two of the WeGovern Learning Community winds to a close, participants gathered to reflect on their journey. This community came together with a shared commitment to practice liberatory governance — and we did. Participants—including Resonance Network, who convened the learning community space but practiced as a participant
- [Community engagement: How to create meaningful connections in an age of distrust](https://networkweaver.com/community-engagement-how-to-create-meaningful-connections-in-an-age-of-distrust/) - Community engagement is a term applied in various contexts, often meaning different things to different audiences. It is sometimes used interchangeably with other concepts such as community outreach or community consultation. For the purpose of this article, we utilise the term community engagement to describe a process where local government, charities, and funders collaborate meaningfully with the
- [Strengthening Social Connection and Opportunities in Rural Communities](https://networkweaver.com/strengthening-social-connection-and-opportunities-in-rural-communities/) - This brief describes an unfolding learning journey intended to strengthen social connection, resident voice, and agency to address inequities in rural health and well-being. Along the way, we have come to realize the important lessons for each of our institutions and ways in which we are better off for having taken this approach to
- [Co-designing a platform for self-organizing networks](https://networkweaver.com/co-designing-a-platform-for-self-organizing-networks/) - How do you know who is in your network? How do you find people who are interested in similar topics or actions? How do you know your network is making a difference? How does your network support self-organizing? These are some of the questions about communications and platforms in networks that Ari Sahagún and
- [Getting to the Goods (and Beyond “Folded Arms” Syndrome) in Impact Networks](https://networkweaver.com/getting-to-the-goods-and-beyond-folded-arms-syndrome-in-impact-networks/) - “Your generosity is more important than your perfection.” Seth Godin Over the past 20 years of working with a variety of social change networks, I have observed a common dynamic surface after the initial enthusiasm and launch phase. As happened recently with a place-based network about a year into its development (navigating
- [A Future for All of Us](https://networkweaver.com/a-future-for-all-of-us/) - AN EXCERPT FROM RACE FORWARD’S REPORT ON PHASE 1 OF THE BUTTERFLY LAB FOR IMMIGRANT NARRATIVE STRATEGY IN 2018, DURING THE HEIGHT OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S attacks on migrants, immigrants, and refugees, a landmark study warned pro-immigration forces that “attitudes towards immigrants and immigration are extremely complex: even those who appear to be
- [6 Reasons Why Liberatory Leaders Need to Take Play Seriously](https://networkweaver.com/6-reasons-why-liberatory-leaders-need-to-take-play-seriously/) - When was the last time you played, did something just because it was fun and felt good? Did you finish feeling enlivened, relaxed, energized, or something similar? Leadership Learning Community has been exploring the roles of fun and play in our activities. This exploration didn’t start out super intentional, but rather as a
- [Peer Learning Changes Everything — but How to Make it Work?](https://networkweaver.com/peer-learning-changes-everything-but-how-to-make-it-work/) - Increasingly in networks and communities I’m part of, the activity participants see the most value and impact in — and engage with regularity and enthusiasm — is peer learning circles. I have found that peer learning circles are fantastic at: Helping people get direct answers to challenges they face and reducing repeated mistakes across projects and
- [Stories that Change Systems](https://networkweaver.com/stories-that-change-systems/) - This blog was originally published in February 2022 by Rotary Charities of Traverse City. “Stories make, prop up, and bring down systems. Stories shape how we understand the world, our place in it, and our ability to change it.” – Ella Saltmarshe, Telling the Difference In November of 2021, Rotary Charities began piloting
- [Network Weaving for Equitable Wellbeing](https://networkweaver.com/network-weaving-for-equitable-wellbeing/) - The following post was written for those who will be attending the Full Frame Initiative’s (FFI) Wellbeing Summit in Charlotte, North Carolina December 11-14. The Interaction Institute for Social Change has been supporting FFI staff and signers of the Wellbeing Blueprint in developing network ways of thinking and doing as they work to ensure equitable wellbeing in systems ranging from
- [Pattern spotting: a core practice for systems change](https://networkweaver.com/pattern-spotting-a-core-practice-for-systems-change/) - I find pattern spotting deeply satisfying as a practice. It helps me work with complexity rather than trying to simplify it, it reveals rhythms and structures that can support deep change work, it awakens my curiosity and creativity and quietens my rational brain’s constant quest for answers. At best it reminds me how much
- [Decentralized organizing: More collaboration, less hierarchy](https://networkweaver.com/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 delegating tasks and responsibilities. It’s about transparency and openness, including how financial decisions are made and how labour is divided. This approach creates
- [Understanding network strategy](https://networkweaver.com/understanding-network-strategy/) - Every organization needs an effective strategy. Strategy can refer to an overarching strategic plan at the organizational level or a strategy towards achieving specific organizational needs and goals. A strategy will set the way forward for an organization in alignment with its overarching vision and mission. It will articulate the priorities and directions the
- [Turning the stone: embedding systems thinking in the everyday](https://networkweaver.com/turning-the-stone-embedding-systems-thinking-in-the-everyday/) - The context Images Isn’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 are. We talk about ‘just ploughing on’, ‘turning over a new leaf’ and much more. Why? Because we don’t feel, think and
- [What happened when we made space for harvest](https://networkweaver.com/what-happened-when-we-made-space-for-harvest/) - As the pandemic(s) continue, and in the midst of the great resignation, global unrest, and the unfolding of the anthropocene, we are still here. Like so many of you, we are still working. Still worldbuilding. And like so many of you, we’ve been doing this work alongside colleagues we haven’t hugged in years. Some of
- [The role and power of re-patterning in systems change](https://networkweaver.com/the-role-and-power-of-re-patterning-in-systems-change/) - 7 everyday patterns to shift systems towards equity Many recent discussions about civic innovation and systems change have focused on big structural changes that need to take place if we are to grow more equitable outcomes. Along with our friends at TSI / Auckland Co-Design Lab we suspected that we also needed to explore what could happen underneath those structures
- [The Complexity Spectrum](https://networkweaver.com/the-complexity-spectrum/) - Systems change is not for everyone, but making a good choice is Philanthropies are increasingly becoming key players in the field of systems change. As organizations grow more innovative and risk tolerant, they are logical partners to those working to shift systems for the better. In addition, the work many philanthropies are doing to
- [Creative Freedom for True Equity](https://networkweaver.com/creative-freedom-for-true-equity/) - Equity is often discussed, but rarely understood in a context that speaks to the core challenges of people who are under-represented in race, religion, gender, socio economic status or who may be geographically excluded and differently abled. In particular, the necessary experiences and spaces for communities within rural Texas are just beginning to receive
- [3 COLLABORATIVE PRACTICES FOR ADVANCING SOCIAL IMPACT](https://networkweaver.com/3-collaborative-practices-for-advancing-social-impact/) - Learning, for me, is more than acquiring knowledge; it’s also about putting it into practice and sharing my experiences so that others can benefit from them. Below are some good practices I’ve been using for bringing people across organizations together to collectively address complex challenges, like inequality and climate change. 1) Know what
- [Five Calls-to Action from the 2022 Facing Race Conference](https://networkweaver.com/five-calls-to-action-from-the-2022-facing-race-conference/) - What happens when thousands of racial justice leaders and practitioners come together after a pandemic? So much power and knowledge-sharing – and plenty of dancing and hugs, and even a few martinis! At the 2022 national Facing Race Conference in Arizona, sponsored by Race Forward, participants were graced with gratitude for their work for racial justice,
- [“Entangled” Social Change: From Inter-action to “Intra-Action”](https://networkweaver.com/entangled-social-change-from-inter-action-to-intra-action/) - “What is at stake with quantum theory is the very nature of reality. Should reality be understood as something completely impervious to our interventions, or should it be viewed as something responsive to the very existence of human beings?” Christopher Fuchs (physicist) A mark of a good book for me is one that
- [On Rest](https://networkweaver.com/on-rest/) - I began this blog post thinking about operationalizing network values. It felt serious. I wanted to write a thing that helped me better understand that feeling in my body when it sensed that the work I was doing and the people I was doing it with, were justly constrained by tangible and consistent values
- [Understanding network strategy](https://networkweaver.com/understanding-network-strategy-2/) - Every organization needs an effective strategy. Strategy can refer to an overarching strategic plan at the organizational level or a strategy towards achieving specific organizational needs and goals. A strategy will set the way forward for an organization in alignment with its overarching vision and mission. It will articulate the priorities and directions the organization
- [Moving from ladders of engagement to self-organizing as decentralized leadership](https://networkweaver.com/moving-from-ladders-of-engagement-to-self-organizing-as-decentralized-leadership/) - Thanks to June Holley for thought partnership! In campaign-based organizing, we tend to think of engaging people hierarchically: the goal is to move people up the ladder, progressively increasing their levels of engagement. Transplanting this to network organizing can give people a sense of “the network does all the things for network members,”
- [The Dots From Your Heart And Hand: Breathing Through Art](https://networkweaver.com/the-dots-from-your-heart-and-hand-breathing-through-art/) - Like the fast-moving cars in cities, the fast-thinking minds of children throw smiles to my lips. Building cars are complex – it takes a lot of creativity and expertise. On the flip side, kids crush complexities and build simple car toys that move – yet it takes their creative hands and expert minds to
- [The Art of Collaborative Facilitation](https://networkweaver.com/the-art-of-collaborative-facilitation/) - “An effective facilitator is often what makes the difference between success and failure,” write Paul W. Mattessich and Kirsten M. Johnson, authors of Collaboration: What Makes It Work. “Facilitation isn’t magic, but it is multifaceted, challenging, and essential.” If design is the framework or skeleton of a meeting, facilitation is what brings it to
- [Making “risky” business our business](https://networkweaver.com/making-risky-business-our-business/) - Bridging the gap between funders and the needs of grassroots groups In previous blogs we have talked about the need for grassroots movements vs. funder’s resistance to risk, and questioned the meaning of the word in this context. Next in our exploring risk in funding series, we wanted to look at the role that we, The
- [The DNA of Organizational Transformation—Structure, Relationships & Shared Purpose](https://networkweaver.com/the-dna-of-organizational-transformation-structure-relationships-shared-purpose/) - In my role as an organizational well-being officer at IBSS Corporation, I was given a unique opportunity. As part-scientist, part-community builder, and part-alchemist, I was able to bring my personal and felt understanding of well-being and investigate the work environment to see what was missing and create experiments to address the gaps. With great interest and
- [EXPLORING THE COLLABORATION CYCLE](https://networkweaver.com/exploring-the-collaboration-cycle/) - Below is an excerpt from the full article which can be downloaded here or at the bottom of this post. This article a part of the Tamarack Institutes Collaborative Governance and Leadership series. The Collaborative Context Many enter into collaboration thinking that the shared work is a linear and flat process from start to
- [MEASURING LOVE in the JOURNEY for JUSTICE](https://networkweaver.com/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. MEASURING LOVE Preface: A Sovereign Perspective As this is a Brown—not white—Paper, we want to give some perspectives before you dig in. In
- [The next big horizon? Uniting networks and funders across sectors to transform our world…](https://networkweaver.com/the-next-big-horizon-uniting-networks-and-funders-across-sectors-to-transform-our-world/) - We’re at a critical moment. Intersecting crises of people and planet are creating climate disasters, technological disruption, perpetuating inequities, global pandemics. It can feel daunting. But it can also feel hopeful – when you look at the thousands of networks around the globe working tirelessly every day, preserving biodiversity, transforming education, changing food systems,
- [Attuning to the Harmonies of Home](https://networkweaver.com/attuning-to-the-harmonies-of-home/) - “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing” – Arundathi Roy You can find hundreds of definitions of “permaculture”, but none speaks as clearly to the global Indigenous origins and millenia-long practices of permaculture than the one shared by a dear
- [Healing Love into Balance](https://networkweaver.com/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 Balance… What an invitation, what a calling in, to collectively write about the power of LOVE in the face of betrayal, injustice, mass-death,
- [A Bold Experiment in Relationships, Power & Imagining Leadership Otherwise](https://networkweaver.com/a-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 2016 when our foundation first embarked on our exploration of the role and power of networks in building a just and vibrant New York
- [Yes! We Rise Podcast: Weaving Powerful Networks in Communities](https://networkweaver.com/yes-we-rise-podcast-weaving-powerful-networks-in-communities/) - The Yes! We Rise podcast features solutions-seekers, change-makers, and those creating a resilient future. We share stories and strategies to inspire action to build resilience and community transformation. In this episode, Christine Muehlman Gyovai and June Holley discuss the importance of collaboration and how developing deep relationships can help networks flourish. June has been weaving networks, helping others strengthen
- [Unique opportunities within the network-donor relationship](https://networkweaver.com/unique-opportunities-within-the-network-donor-relationship/) - Funding networks may not be a well-matched strategy for all donors, especially those who have only funded frontline direct service organizations. But for donors looking to invest in systems-level impact or ecosystem development, investing in networks may not only be a good fit, but may also be an opportunity to develop a generative relationship
- [The Gong-Gong Beater: An Indigenous Information Sharing Medium for Sustaining the Influence of Community Networks ](https://networkweaver.com/the-gong-gong-beater-an-indigenous-information-sharing-medium-for-sustaining-the-influence-of-community-networks/) - Who is a Gong-Gong Beater? In traditional Ghanaian society, the gong-gong beater is characterized as the official communication and information manager within a chieftaincy structure. This person is often unassuming, are not considered a part of the elite, and could easily be disregarded. However, when he must relay a message from the Chiefdom or
- [Community outreach done right – Five tips to building an effective strategy](https://networkweaver.com/community-outreach-done-right-five-tips-to-building-an-effective-strategy/) - Five tips to help you build an effective community outreach strategy Effective community outreach is essential for charities and funders looking to make a positive impact in their communities. However, outreach efforts can sometimes fall short if they are not well-planned and executed. In this post, we share five quick tips for improving
- [Transformation Teachings](https://networkweaver.com/transformation-teachings/) - I am recently back from the Transformations Community gathering in Prague in the Czech Republic and still savoring and making sense of the time. That trip capped a flurry of work travel that began in May and took me from Jackson, Mississippi (Food Policy Council Network COLP) to New York City (Ford Foundation Global Leadership Meeting) to
- [Bending the Arc Toward Racial Justice](https://networkweaver.com/bending-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 capacity for individuals, organizations, and networks to pursue social justice and racial equity. Organizational and network capacity isn’t the only thing we need to
- [Aso Oke: Weaving Community](https://networkweaver.com/aso-oke-weaving-community/) - According to a scholar of textile design Picton (1979), weaving is a simple process of interlacing a set of thread (warp and weft) at right angles to form a web or fabric that holds cloth together. Aso Oke, a fabric produced by combining cotton, silk, bark and goat’s wool, is a weaving tradition from
- [Irrigating Our Health Ecosystems with System Change Practitioners](https://networkweaver.com/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 us into constant firefighting mode. The dehumanisation of health systems has been intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic, leaving us feeling that we have spent
- [The magic of finding my peers of relationship-centred practitioners](https://networkweaver.com/the-magic-of-finding-my-peers-of-relationship-centred-practitioners/) - In brief On the 23rd November 2022, 80 relationship-centred practitioners came together at Northumbria University to unpack the how, what and why of relationship-centred practice. Relationships Project shared some of our key takeaways in this letter and, here, Fabian Pfortmüller responds with his. “My name is Mel and I’m a relationship-centred practitioner!” the lady on stage
- [Changing the Conversation Around Reproductive Justice](https://networkweaver.com/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 right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities.” To that
- [Through the portal we go; mapping for the new world](https://networkweaver.com/through-the-portal-we-go-mapping-for-the-new-world/) - Dense community networks bring resilience, equality and agency to our places: how we’re mapping and exploring social capital to test and develop these hypotheses Strong communities are made up of rich and complex relational systems of feedback and support that develop over time; they have a tightly bound social fabric, woven from
- [Governance Dilemmas — Boundary Conditions for Navigating Networked Peacebuilding](https://networkweaver.com/governance-dilemmas-boundary-conditions-for-navigating-networked-peacebuilding/) - As actors engaged in peacebuilding and social change, we often find ourselves grappling with complex dynamics while facilitating the establishment of effective governance systems. Three recurring themes, or dilemmas, have emerged as central to this process: Timeline Pressure versus Sustainable Governance, Decolonizing Facilitation Dynamics, and Power Dynamics within the Group and the choice of
- [Scaling Deep: Where it came from and more to go](https://networkweaver.com/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 a small group of grantees were working out what it meant to scale out their work and experimenting with pathways to get to real
- [Equity May Not Be So Deep, Even If It Isn’t Easy: 10 Things You Can Actually Do Sooner Than Later](https://networkweaver.com/equity-may-not-be-so-deep-even-if-it-isnt-easy-10-things-you-can-actually-do-sooner-than-later/) - I’m wrapping up some work with a network focused on just and sustainable food systems, and based on work we have done and conversation we have had to date on equity, networks, and love, here is a list of 10 things that might be transferable to your work (remembering that you can’t always
- [To support Network effectiveness and Network Leaders](https://networkweaver.com/to-support-network-effectiveness-and-network-leaders/) - In 2019 – 2020, COPE Scotland joined a 9-month Network Weaving learning series offered by the Q Community for health and care leadership in the UK and Ireland. Facilitated by Kristin Johnstad and other Network Weavers, we learned much about the idea of Network Weaving based on the Network Weaver Handbook by June Holley.
- [Conflict Resolution in Networks](https://networkweaver.com/conflict-resolution-in-networks/) - In February 2023, Collective Mind hosted our Networks in Action on conflict resolution in networks. The session, hosted by Collective Mind founder, Kerstin Tebbe, built from inputs shared by session participants and followed the frame of “what”, “so what”, “now what”. The ideas shared here are a summary of the participants’ inputs and discussion.
- [Nurturing Sustainable Communities](https://networkweaver.com/nurturing-sustainable-communities/) - The Power of Network Governance and Leadership In a world that thrives on interconnectedness, the role of effective network governance and leadership practices in building sustainable and connected communities cannot be overstated. It’s a journey marked by trials, tribulations, and triumphs, but one that has the potential to transform lives and landscapes. In this
- [Clear the way: Engaging your network without burning out](https://networkweaver.com/clear-the-way-engaging-your-network-without-burning-out/) - Signs of network engagement What does an engaged, mutually-supportive network look and feel like? Here are some key indicators: You’ll see plenty of excitement or motivation and rapid growth, The network communicates a clear sense of shared problems and shared purpose, People will be working out loud, supporting a peer-to-peer culture of leadership.
- [Changing the System by Fire](https://networkweaver.com/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 world. Phoebe defines moral imagination as a combination of what is possible and what should happen, saying that collective, bottom-up imagining which honours people’s
- [Imagining Liberation](https://networkweaver.com/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 deep, durable narrative change, restructuring the way people feel, think, and respond to the world. This interview series features participants in the inaugural cohort.
- [Measurement as a regenerative practice](https://networkweaver.com/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 such as the climate crisis or social injustice, we need a new underlying paradigm to guide our actions – and not the paradigm
- [What is Liberatory Learning?](https://networkweaver.com/what-is-liberatory-learning/) - Learning has become synonymous with formal education, which is often entangled in flawed systems that perpetuate injustice. This has resulted in a distorted perception of the true power of learning. As we understand it, learning is inherently a liberating practice that often thrives beyond the confines of educational systems. Paulo Freire, in his book
- [From Theory to Practice: Embodying Collective Governance with Resonance Network](https://networkweaver.com/from-theory-to-practice-embodying-collective-governance-with-resonance-network/) - This post, written by Resonance Network’s Kassamira Carter-Howard and Yesenia Veamatahau, originally appeared on Education Reimagined’s blog here and The Reverb here. “A lattice is a repeating, interlaced structure that is strong and expansive enough to encourage and hold space for a diversity of community contributions. It exists to hold and support, not limit or
- [Network Failures: 2023 Edition!](https://networkweaver.com/network-failures-2023-edition/) - At the end of 2023, we celebrated everything we’ve done in 1 year of Fito Network. To inaugurate 2024 we are launching our first annual “Failures Report”. We think periodically acknowledging and reflecting on what didn’t work so well is good practice — and helps us move forward. And sharing these failures externally, we believe, can possibly
- [Evolving Strategy in Complexity: For organizations who are overwhelmed, over-processing, and still need a coordinated plan to win](https://networkweaver.com/evolving-strategy-in-complexity/) - 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 habits that contributed to overwork (without much to show for it by way of outcomes). At the time, I was also recovering from a series
- [Getting to the Core of Long-Term, Complex, Collaborative and Networked Success](https://networkweaver.com/getting-to-the-core-of-long-term-complex-collaborative-and-networked-success/) - The following content is a 2-post contribution from Curtis Ogden, originally published at Interaction Institute for Social Change Lessons From 12 Years of Weaving a Regional Network for Better Food Futures Recently a colleague and I were invited to present to partners in Mississippi about what we have learned over a dozen years of
- [Learnings and Insights From Stepping Into Systems](https://networkweaver.com/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 cultivating the ability to be in the world as it changes. It’s the process of developing, flourishing and evolving. Learning is change. With this
- [White Dominant Culture in Every Seat: Navigating Complicity and Liberation](https://networkweaver.com/white-dominant-culture-in-every-seat-navigating-complicity-and-liberation/) - What is white dominant culture? And white supremacy culture? And white supremacy? Although not new, these buzzwords stir a range of emotions, misconceptions, manipulations, and also create a contemplative space for accountability and awareness. In this episode, host Whitney Knox Lee engages in a thought-provoking and honest conversation with Kerrien Suarez, the president and
- [Knowledge Sharing for Collective Growth](https://networkweaver.com/knowledge-sharing-for-collective-growth/) - What follow are the topics discussed in the interview. Transformation Transformation is an ongoing relational process, not a destination or state. It involves co-creating a world that is good for all through our relationships and interactions. Transformation creates something different in each place, through co-creating and learning together. Learning Communities Are a key venue
- [How to improve funding to networks](https://networkweaver.com/how-to-improve-funding-to-networks/) - Takeaways from a series of co-creation workshops In March 2023, Collective Mind launched the results of a major participatory research study on donor funding to networks. As a follow-up to this research, we organized a series of co-creation workshops between April and June to share the research findings and elicit ideas for how to further the agenda
- [Community Engagement for Equitable Systems Change](https://networkweaver.com/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. The tools and frameworks we’ve created are for anyone seeking to create equitable systems. We know that context matters, and these tools were birthed
- [Learning From Experience](https://networkweaver.com/learning-from-experience/) - It takes a body My interview with artist Maggie Roberts covered perspective, vision, AI, bias, resistance, extraction, the bravery of imagination, and the role of art in a crisis. The conversation was nuanced, exploratory, considered and multi-faceted, centering around one of Maggie’s recent projects in which she envisioned training an AI model on the experience of
- [Leadership Alumni Networks Making a Difference](https://networkweaver.com/leadership-alumni-networks-making-a-difference/) - For all justice-loving people who are curious about networks or what leadership program alumni can and are accomplishing by using network strategies, I am happy to share a recently released resource, “Leadership Program Alumni Networks, Catalysing Learning and Action for Equitable Systems Change.” This topic speaks to me personally, because as an alumni of one
- [Murmurations: Wisdom From Women Changemakers](https://networkweaver.com/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 as a member of the Fire Ensemble, which was the first choir to perform my debut public musical ritual, To Feel a Thing: A Ritual
- [How to Grow Trust-Based Conservation Funding: Impact Networks + Pay It Forward Scaling](https://networkweaver.com/how-to-grow-trust-based-conservation-funding-impact-networks-pay-it-forward-scaling/) - Trust-based funding approaches are the slow-food version of conservation finance. These approaches are intimate and time-intensive by nature and are built on personal relationships, significant upfront investments of time, and open channels of communication. Trust-based approaches put the burden of onerous administrative tasks, commonly found in grantmaking (e.g. understanding proposed actions, evidence of impact,
- [Putting Relationships First](https://networkweaver.com/putting-relationships-first/) - 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, START WITH RELATIONSHIPS Good relationships are the foundations on which all else is built – effective education, just policing, stable childhoods, thriving communities, compassionate
- [What philanthropy can learn from Afrofuturism to end violence](https://networkweaver.com/what-philanthropy-can-learn-from-afrofuturism-to-end-violence-2/) - What other ways of knowing can philanthropy embrace to imagine our future? This article, by Alexis Flanagan, first appeared in Alliance Magazine. Alexis is the Co-Executive Director of the Resonance Network. You can also find this post at The Reverb. Artwork by Lola Ibrahim, Resonance Network. As we bear witness
- [Seeding Futures for Wellbeing](https://networkweaver.com/seeding-futures-for-wellbeing/) - Continuing the conversation about ‘capitalism after the crisis’ In February 2023 The Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers penned this piece in The Monthly — Capitalism after the crisis. We were buoyed. The current political environment in Australia isn’t always conducive to the sharing of bold and courageous visions for collective futures. Yet, we live in
- [When “Kin” Is All We Have: From “Stakeholders” to “Care-holders”](https://networkweaver.com/from-stakeholders-to-care-holders/) - “We must move ourselves beyond resistance and survival, to flourishment and ‘mino bimaadiziwin’ (the good life).“ – Leanne Betasamosake Simpson “The challenge is to replace practices that distance and disconnect with ones that evoke empathy, caring, and creativity.” – Carol Sanford In our collaborative change work with organizations and multi-organization networks, we at Interaction
- [Indigenous and Afro-descendent Ancestral Practices and Community Philanthropy in the Americas](https://networkweaver.com/indigenous-and-afro-descendent-ancestral-practices/) - For centuries, communities in Latin America and the Caribbean have been practicing reciprocal assistance. Strengthening mutual trust, pooling assets, and building capacity helps people adapt to changing conditions and opportunities, and forms the basis for a growing global practice called community philanthropy that seeks to achieve lasting results that matter to communities, local civil society organizations,
- [Social change needs a new leadership style](https://networkweaver.com/social-change-needs-a-new-leadership-style/) - It’s time to swap ego and hierarchy for collaborative leadership Introducing the Collaborative Leadership Canvas, a new tool to help leaders and groups distribute power and responsibility. We know, you know, everybody knows that social change is never down to just one person. Many hands are needed to make real, long lasting transformation.
- [From Biology to Changemaking: Embracing the Tree of Alignment in Transformative Work](https://networkweaver.com/from-biology-to-changemaking-embracing-the-tree-of-alignment-in-transformative-work/) - In the quest for transformative change, whether in organizations, communities, or individual lives, understanding the dynamics and drivers of change is critical. The “Tree of Alignment,” a metaphorical concept, provides a comprehensive framework for fostering environments that are conducive to meaningful and lasting change. Most of you know me as an evaluator, researcher,
- [On Relational Infrastructure](https://networkweaver.com/on-relational-infrastructure/) - Exploring the role of relationships, trust and mutualistic approaches to change. When Suzanne Simard brought to mainstream attention the knowledge of vast underground mycorrhizal networks (which connect trees, grasses and other forms of life throughout grassland and forest ecosystems), the ‘wood wide web‘ changed the perception of these incredible ecosystems for many people. What
- [The A to Z of Systems Thinking: A for AND](https://networkweaver.com/the-a-to-z-of-systems-thinking-a-for-and/) - I loved Algebra at school. In particular, I loved arithmetic sequences, and practiced them so much that it became easy for me to see a group of numbers and extract a pattern that connected them. It became a game that I played constantly in my head. One day, in Physics class, the teacher gave us
- [Who Cares?](https://networkweaver.com/who-cares/) - This piece is the first article in the Care series, a collaboration between System sanctuary and Turtle Island Institute Care is a theme that has come up over and over again in our System Sanctuary peer-learning sessions. When we mapped out and analyzed the systemic barriers and opportunities in the climate change space, care
- [Is a community’s purpose best communicated as a question?](https://networkweaver.com/is-a-communitys-purpose-best-communicated-as-a-question/) - Community = Living the questions together Key ideas by Chelsea Robinson, Erin Dixon, Sita Magnuson, Michel Bachmann. Written by Fabian Pfortmüller. Originally published at Together Institute Many years ago, Chelsea Robinson, Michel Bachmann, and I were dreaming up what a community of community weavers might look like (a project that would become “the Experiment” and eventually the
- [Legal arrangements for networks](https://networkweaver.com/legal-arrangements-for-networks/) - However they come into being, networks typically have to grapple at some point with the circumstances of their legal registration. This may take place at the outset of a network’s establishment or even years down the road when the situation has changed and whatever arrangement has been in place is no longer serving the
- [Design Foundations For Systems Capital](https://networkweaver.com/design-foundations-for-systems-capital/) - This piece was published in August 2022 in partnership with Hatched and reflects our thinking at this time. What would it look like to design an investment approach with the primary purpose of fostering systems innovation and transformation? In this provocation, we reimagine how capital allocation could be better attuned to the interconnected nature of the
- [Love in Action: Embodying Love in our Organizing and Organizations](https://networkweaver.com/love-in-action-embodying-love-in-our-organizing-and-organizations/) - This piece was originally published by Root. Rise. Pollinate! on Medium with Inspirators Hope Chigudu, Rudo Chigudu, Julie Quiroz and Susimar Gonzalez Martinez. INSPIRATOR: one who invites and infuses our imaginations with practices that uplift and motivate a (r)Evolution of Being. When was the last time you asked yourself, and your co-inspirators: What does love have
- [Network mapping: Visualizing stakeholders in the global food system](https://networkweaver.com/network-mapping-visualizing-stakeholders-in-the-global-food-system/) - Learnings from the network map Though the mapping is an ongoing process, fascinating insights have emerged from this data visualization’s first stages. One notable finding from the map is the distributed and collaborative nature of the global food-systems network–there is no one “power hoarder” or institution with disproportionate influence across the network. Instead, widespread knowledge-sharing
- [Unraveling, Dis-Integration, and Fluttery Feelings: The Lesser Told Parts of the “Transformation Story”](https://networkweaver.com/unraveling-dis-integration-and-fluttery-feelings-the-lesser-told-parts-of-the-transformation-story/) - “Transformation is a process and, for survivors, it’s a process with ups and downs, flashbacks and panic attacks. But as [regeneration] confirms, it’s the better way.” – Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Susan Shaw As I’ve been coming more and more into “the second half of life,“ I have found that I pay more attention, or perhaps I pay
- [Mapping Community Contributions: A Toolkit for Fortifying Resilient Neighborhoods](https://networkweaver.com/mapping-community-contributions-a-toolkit-for-fortifying-resilient-neighbourhoods/) - In May 2024, OCTOPI embarked on a project with a question in mind: “How can we better understand, document, and map existing practices of reciprocity, exchange, resource efficiency, and coordination in lower-income communities to make visible the contributions of grassroots groups to the growing knowledge commons on circularity?” OCTOPI, a social design studio based
- [Alive & Learning : a podcast for collaborators, visionaries, and changemakers](https://networkweaver.com/alive-learning-a-podcast-for-collaborators-visionaries-and-changemakers/) - Alive & Learning is a podcast about what’s arising at the intersections of Impact Networks, Systems Change, Futures & Foresight In 2024, Circle Generation, School of Systems Change, and School of International Futures launched this six episode podcast series exploring what’s arising in the intersections between our similar practices and approaches to:
- [Responding across the system](https://networkweaver.com/responding-across-the-system/) - What other examples do you know of that bring together the different elements needed for effective collective action? Who does a good job of talking about the connectedness and coherence of their work.Drop me a comment to share? Sam Rye has spent the last 15+ years working across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand on social
- [The Wisdom of Cicadas](https://networkweaver.com/the-wisdom-of-cicadas/) - “We are living through a syndemic—a time of multiple crises causing seismic economic, political, environmental, technological, and social shifts, which are long from being settled. Black, Indigenous, people of color, and Global South communities are at the frontlines and faultlines of these changes that are reshaping the world. Institutions, hierarchies, and forms of leadership rooted
- [Receiving Love and Care: A Liberatory Practice](https://networkweaver.com/receiving-love-and-care-a-liberatory-practice/) - originally published at Change Elemental Photo Credit: Mark Leach Network Weaver is dedicated to offering free content to all – in support of equity, justice and transformation for all. We appreciate your support! [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row] Mark joined Change Elemental in 2004 and has worked as a consultant and coach with
- [Who got time for deep community?](https://networkweaver.com/who-got-time-for-deep-community/) - 5. Pay attention to people’s energy The longer I’m doing community work, the more I’m paying attention to people’s energy. People might not have time, but if the group gives them energy, they will be present. So our role as community weaver becomes about noticing: What is giving people energy? What is taking their energy? And
- [Uncolonizing the workplace using Indigenous Kinship building practices](https://networkweaver.com/uncolonizing-workplace-using-indigenous-kinship-building-practices/) - As the late evening sun continued to shine on the mountains, our plane landed on the homelands of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council, known very briefly as Whitehorse, Yukon.
- [Interrogating Erasure in Systems Change by Centering the Stories of Black Women as Collective Power in Weaving Equitable Experiences](https://networkweaver.com/interrogating-erasure-in-systems-change-2/) - The paper is written from the perspectives and experiences of three Black women in the United States (US) who explore how operating from the margins in a country that constantly erases our stories fuels our work. Systems change and equity are
- [What philanthropy can learn from Afrofuturism to end violence](https://networkweaver.com/what-philanthropy-can-learn-from-afrofuturism-to-end-violence/) - As we bear witness to the inhumanity of empire and grieve the reality of climate collapse, it is Black, Brown and Indigenous women and girls, and our trans, nonbinary, and two-spirit kin whose voices are guiding the path beyond violence.
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## Portfolio

- [Designer Layout](https://networkweaver.com/portfolio/designer-layout/) - Capitalize on low hanging fruit to identify a ballpark value added activity to beta test, verride the digital divide with additional clickthroughs from today, along the information highway will close the loop on focusing solely on the bottom line, ring to the table win-win survival strategies to ensure proactive domination.
- [Original Layout](https://networkweaver.com/portfolio/original-layout/) - Leverage agile frameworks to provide a robust synopsis for high level of overviews, iterative approaches to corporate strategy foster collaborative thinking to further the overall value proposition, at the end of the day, organically grow the world view of disruptive innovation via workplace diversity and empowerment.
- [Sidebar Stack Full Layout](https://networkweaver.com/portfolio/sidebar-stack-full-layout/) - Capitalize on low hanging fruit to identify a ballpark value added activity to beta test, verride the digital divide with additional clickthroughs from today, along the information highway will close the loop on focusing solely on the bottom line, ring to the table win-win survival strategies to ensure proactive domination.
- [Architect Layout](https://networkweaver.com/portfolio/architect-layout/) - Leverage agile frameworks to provide a robust synopsis for high level of overviews, iterative approaches to corporate strategy foster collaborative thinking to further the overall value proposition, at the end of the day, organically grow the world view of disruptive innovation via workplace diversity and empowerment.
- [Digital Web Layout](https://networkweaver.com/portfolio/digital-web-layout/) - Capitalize on low hanging fruit to identify a ballpark value added activity to beta test, verride the digital divide with additional clickthroughs from today, along the information highway will close the loop on focusing solely on the bottom line, ring to the table win-win survival strategies to ensure proactive domination.
- [Classic Layout](https://networkweaver.com/portfolio/classic-layout/) - Leverage agile frameworks to provide a robust synopsis for high level of overviews, iterative approaches to corporate strategy foster collaborative thinking to further the overall value proposition, at the end of the day, organically grow the world view of disruptive innovation via workplace diversity and empowerment.
- [Center Stack Layout](https://networkweaver.com/portfolio/center-stack-layout/) - Leverage agile frameworks to provide a robust synopsis for high level of overviews, iterative approaches to corporate strategy foster collaborative thinking to further the overall value proposition, at the end of the day, organically grow the world view of disruptive innovation via workplace. Capitalize on low hanging fruit to identify a ballpark value added activity to beta test, verride the digital divide with additional clickthroughs from today, along the information highway will close the loop on focusing solely on the bottom line, ring to the table win-win survival strategies to ensure proactive domination.
- [Center Slides Layout](https://networkweaver.com/portfolio/center-slides-layout/) - Capitalize on low hanging fruit to identify a ballpark value added activity to beta test, verride the digital divide with additional clickthroughs from today, along the information highway will close the loop on focusing solely on the bottom line, ring to the table win-win survival strategies to ensure proactive domination. Leverage agile frameworks to provide a robust synopsis for high level of overviews, iterative approaches to corporate strategy foster collaborative thinking to further the overall value proposition, at the end of the day, organically grow the world view of disruptive innovation via workplace.
- [Storytelling Layout](https://networkweaver.com/portfolio/storytelling-layout/) - Leverage agile frameworks to provide a robust synopsis for high level of overviews, iterative approaches to corporate strategy foster collaborative thinking to further the overall value proposition, at the end of the day, organically grow the world view of disruptive innovation via workplace diversity and empowerment.
- [Wedding Photo Layout](https://networkweaver.com/portfolio/wedding-photo-layout/) - Capitalize on low hanging fruit to identify a ballpark value added activity to beta test, verride the digital divide with additional clickthroughs from today, along the information highway will close the loop on focusing solely on the bottom line, ring to the table win-win survival strategies to ensure proactive domination.
- [Center Gallery Full Layout](https://networkweaver.com/portfolio/center-gallery-full-layout/) - Leverage agile frameworks to provide a robust synopsis for high level of overviews, iterative approaches to corporate strategy foster collaborative thinking to further the overall value proposition, at the end of the day, organically grow the world view of disruptive innovation via workplace. Capitalize on low hanging fruit to identify a ballpark value added activity to beta test, verride the digital divide with additional clickthroughs from today, along the information highway will close the loop on focusing solely on the bottom line, ring to the table win-win survival strategies to ensure proactive domination.
- [Sidebar Stack Layout](https://networkweaver.com/portfolio/sidebar-stack-layout/) - Capitalize on low hanging fruit to identify a ballpark value added activity to beta test, verride the digital divide with additional clickthroughs from today, along the information highway will close the loop on focusing solely on the bottom line, ring to the table win-win survival strategies to ensure proactive domination.
- [Photo Shooting Layout](https://networkweaver.com/portfolio/photo-shooting-layout/) - Capitalize on low hanging fruit to identify a ballpark value added activity to beta test, verride the digital divide with additional clickthroughs from today, along the information highway will close the loop on focusing solely on the bottom line, ring to the table win-win survival strategies to ensure proactive domination.
- [Creative Gallery Layout](https://networkweaver.com/portfolio/creative-gallery-layout/) - Leverage agile frameworks to provide a robust synopsis for high level of overviews, iterative approaches to corporate strategy foster collaborative thinking to further the overall value proposition, at the end of the day, organically grow the world view of disruptive innovation via workplace diversity and empowerment.
- [Center Stack Full Layout](https://networkweaver.com/portfolio/center-stack-full-layout/) - Capitalize on low hanging fruit to identify a ballpark value added activity to beta test, verride the digital divide with additional clickthroughs from today, along the information highway will close the loop on focusing solely on the bottom line, ring to the table win-win survival strategies to ensure proactive domination. Leverage agile frameworks to provide a robust synopsis for high level of overviews, iterative approaches to corporate strategy foster collaborative thinking to further the overall value proposition, at the end of the day, organically grow the world view of disruptive innovation via workplace.
- [Center Dynamic Layout](https://networkweaver.com/portfolio/center-dynamic-layout/) - With Dynamic Contents, you can create personalized pages by populating data from various sources and design your own replicable portfolio layout.
- [Sidebar Gallery Full Layout](https://networkweaver.com/portfolio/sidebar-gallery-full-layout/) - Leverage agile frameworks to provide a robust synopsis for high level of overviews, iterative approaches to corporate strategy foster collaborative thinking to further the overall value proposition, at the end of the day, organically grow the world view of disruptive innovation via workplace diversity and empowerment.
- [Sidebar Gallery Layout](https://networkweaver.com/portfolio/sidebar-gallery-layout/) - Capitalize on low hanging fruit to identify a ballpark value added activity to beta test, verride the digital divide with additional clickthroughs from today, along the information highway will close the loop on focusing solely on the bottom line, ring to the table win-win survival strategies to ensure proactive domination.
- [Sidebar Dynamic Layout](https://networkweaver.com/portfolio/sidebar-dynamic-layout/) - With Dynamic Contents, you can create personalized pages by populating data from various sources and design your own replicable portfolio layout.
- [Filmmaking Layout](https://networkweaver.com/portfolio/filmmaking-layout/) - Leverage agile frameworks to provide a robust synopsis for high level of overviews, iterative approaches to corporate strategy foster collaborative thinking to further the overall value proposition, at the end of the day, organically grow the world view of disruptive innovation via workplace diversity and empowerment.

## Resources

- [The Collective Imagination Practices Toolkit](https://networkweaver.com/resources/the-collective-imagination-practices-toolkit/) - Tools from Collective Imagination practitioners around the world, for anyone who wants to build the capacity to explore and learn ways of creating better, more hopeful futures, together.
- [Transformation and Systems Change: A Primer](https://networkweaver.com/resources/transformation-and-systems-change-a-primer/) - The language of systems change and transformation is now widely used across the fields of social innovation, philanthropy, public policy, and evaluation.
- [Tools & Tinctures for the Future We Want](https://networkweaver.com/resources/tools-tinctures-for-the-future-we-want/) - In Collective Liberation | Racial Equity | Racial Justice Offered by Change Elemental Download Prefigurative practices for fortifying leadership, organizations, networks, & movement infrastructure. “The Prefiguring Futures Lab was a sacred container where we stepped into the future we all long for. I have been trying…to offer moments that might feel for folks how the
- [Money Matters: An Equitable Compensation & Money Discussion Guide](https://networkweaver.com/resources/money-matters-an-equitable-compensation-money-discussion-guide/) - In Other by Mala Nagarajan of Vega Mala Consulting (VMC), and refined by VMC’s collaborators, clients, and communities of practice. Compensation isn’t just about pay—it’s about power, sustainability, and values. Compensation is one of the most complex—and consequential—decisions organizations make. Compensation is almost always the largest line item in an organization’s budget. And workplace conversations
- [Holding People and Teams: An Organizational Handbook  for Growth, Care, & Accountability](https://networkweaver.com/resources/holding-people-and-teams-an-organizational-handbook-for-growth-care-accountability/) - A liberatory approach to Change Elemental’s human growth and sustainability work.
- [There is No Such Thing As A Fish](https://networkweaver.com/resources/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-fish/) - This paper offers a sharper way to understand the different types of portfolios that changemakers can employ, challenging the common tendency to treat all portfolio approaches as interchangeable.
- [Embracing Failure in Systems Change](https://networkweaver.com/resources/embracing-failure-in-systems-change/) - A webinar, slide-deck and thinking tool designed to deepen the shared understanding of productive failure in systems change
- [What is Network Weaving?](https://networkweaver.com/resources/what-is-network-weaving/) - June Holley defines network weaving to help us understand how it can be a game changer in building our collective capacity to bring about social change. View hereJune Holley has been weaving networks, helping others weave networks, and writing about networks for over 40 years. Wellbeing Blueprint sat down with June to define network weaving
- [Resourcing Networks for Equitable Systems Change](https://networkweaver.com/resources/resourcing-networks-for-equitable-systems-change/) - In Collective Liberation | Racial Equity | Racial Justice Perspectives from Funders, Intermediaries, Individuals and Organizations on How We Fund and Support Networks for Equity Offered by Change Elemental Download(excerpt from the report) The events of the past year have made clear what many in and outside of philanthropy already knew: that equality in resource
- [Bridge Builders’ Handbook: A guide to building bridges across divides](https://networkweaver.com/resources/bridge-builders-handbook/) - The Bridge Builders' Handbook A guide to thinking like a mediator and building bridges in your community by Neil Denton.
- [Resources to support network effectiveness and network leaders](https://networkweaver.com/resources/resources-to-support-network-effectiveness-and-network-leaders/) - In Network Building | Training | Weaving A suite of resources to support network effectiveness and network leaders. offered by COPEScotland DownloadA simple tool to invite curiosity about learning more about network effectiveness, network leadership and network weaving. This includes: Curious to learn more about Network Weaving Building relationships Evaluating your Network Generating Ideas Hassles
- [Decentralized Networks and the Black Radical Tradition](https://networkweaver.com/resources/video-decentralized-networks-and-the-black-radical-tradition/) - In Collective Liberation | Racial Equity | Racial Justice This video is from the March 2020 Network Weaver Community of practice session. Jayme Wooten and Kei Williams led the session through a riveting presentation dedicated to unearthing what the Black Radical Tradition can teach us about how communities are self-organizing under crisis. DownloadIn March 2020,
- [Ecosystem Cards](https://networkweaver.com/resources/ecosystem-cards/) - The Ecosystem Cards are a tool to support individuals, teams, organizations, and networks in an ecosystem approach in their work
- [Stories From a Liberated Future](https://networkweaver.com/resources/stories-from-a-liberated-future/) - These are creative explorations meant to be understood as a portal to our shared liberated culture.
- [Transforming Organizations by Operationalizing Racial Justice](https://networkweaver.com/resources/transforming-organizations-operationalizing-racial-justice/) - In Collective Liberation | Racial Equity | Racial Justice a deep and detailed investigation of the strategy and scaffolding it takes to shift toward racially just and liberated organizations offered by Maggie Potapchuk DownloadA deep and detailed investigation of the strategy and scaffolding it takes to shift toward racially just and liberated organizations. This publication
- [Community Engagement for Equitable Systems Change](https://networkweaver.com/resources/community-engagement-for-equitable-systems-change/) - In Collective Liberation | Racial Equity | Racial Justice Tools & frameworks to support systems change agents offered by The Community Engagement for Equitable Systems Change Collaborative DownloadTools & frameworks to support systems change agents The Community Engagement for Equitable Systems Change collaborative aims to: bridge the divide between systems and the ncommunities they serve
- [The Sanctuary Series](https://networkweaver.com/resources/the-sanctuary-series/) - In Systems Change & Social Impact Care and Systems Change: Meeting at the Intersections A series of conversations amplifying emerging and fresh voices in systems change and women- identified leadership at this moment in history. Hosted by The Systems Sanctuary and Turtle Island Institute, in collaboration with Makeway DownloadThis Sanctuary Series amplifies emerging and fresh
- [Seeding Futures for Wellbeing](https://networkweaver.com/resources/seeding_futures_for_wellbeing/) - In Systems Change & Social Impact Catalyzing Collective Imagination How do we nurture positive futures in place, caring for Country, protecting our diverse ecosystems and ensuring that future generations will thrive in vibrant, healthy communities? offered by Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation DownloadContext This compendium is a response to the essay penned by The Hon
- [From Learning to Doing](https://networkweaver.com/resources/from-learning-to-doing/) - In Network Building | Training | Weaving A brief slide presentation on how to create shared experience in a community to initiate actionable change. Offered by Cindee Karns View Slide DeckWithout shared experiences, learning communities often talk past each other. Inevitably there is a judgement on one side or the other. Each learner brings his/her
- [Why Networks?](https://networkweaver.com/resources/why-networks/) - Many people are asked “Why networks?” or “When does it make sense to use a network approach?” This handout explains all and makes it easy for you to email to someone with a response. offered by June Holley Download
- [Network Values Flyer](https://networkweaver.com/resources/network-values-flyer/) - In Network Building | Training | Weaving A List of Network Values – a flyer to use in your digital presentations or to print off to use as a handout or to hang up. Taken from the Network Values Survey module. DownloadA List of Network Values – a flyer to use in your digital presentations
- [Leverage Point Identification](https://networkweaver.com/resources/leverage-point-identification/) - A leverage point is a place where, if people focus their collaborative efforts, they can begin to shift a system because there is a new opportunity emerging for change.
- [Network Weaver Handbook (Downloadable PDF)](https://networkweaver.com/resources/network-weaver-handbook-downloadable-pdf/) - a practical guide for people interested in catalyzing a new network or enhancing an existing one. Each chapter contains a short section describing key concepts, case studies, and many activities.
- [Introduction to Network Weaving](https://networkweaver.com/resources/introduction-to-network-weaving/) - This practical guide is useful for individuals or groups interested in gaining basic skills to improve the effectiveness of their networks. 150 pages. Spiral bound for easy use.
- [Introduction to Network Weaving (Downloadable PDF)](https://networkweaver.com/resources/introduction-to-network-weaving-downloadable-pdf/) - This practical guide is useful for individuals or groups interested in gaining basic skills to improve the effectiveness of their networks.
- [The Secret to Securing Collaboration Resources](https://networkweaver.com/resources/the-secret-to-securing-collaboration-resources/) - RAISE FUNDS MORE EASILY AND ATTRACT COLLABORATIONS
- [Self-Organizing Case Study](https://networkweaver.com/resources/self-organizing-case-study/) - This case study reviews the role of Network Weavers in Self-Organizing Structures, offering insights and strategy.
- [Reclaiming Choice and Agency in a Networked World](https://networkweaver.com/resources/reclaiming-choice-and-agency-in-a-networked-world/) - 3 worksheets to assist the practice of engaging choices in a networked world
- [Principles for Ecosystem Governance](https://networkweaver.com/resources/principles-for-ecosystem-governance/) - The principles articulated in this resource aim to provide a framework for thinking about infusing societal values into governance.
- [Post-it Note Mapping Module](https://networkweaver.com/resources/post-it-note-mapping-module/) - This module includes directions for 5 different processes for mapping your network and directions for using Google Jamboard
- [Network Weaver Checklist](https://networkweaver.com/resources/network-weaver-checklist/) - This checklist is great to give to people in your network at a face-to-face gathering.
- [Network Values Surveys Module](https://networkweaver.com/resources/network-values-surveys-module/) - Having a group or network take a values survey raises awareness of the values and behaviors that enable networks to be system shifting or transformational
- [Network Trust Assessment](https://networkweaver.com/resources/network-trust-assessment/) - This simple survey, when taken by participants in your network, can pinpoint the nature of your trust challenges.
- [BUILDING OUR NETWORK MAPPING MUSCLES](https://networkweaver.com/resources/building-our-network-mapping-muscles/) - A slide deck and a webinar on: different types of network maps and their utility for different applications high-leverage ways to make the most of your maps.
- [Analyzing Network Maps](https://networkweaver.com/resources/analyzing-network-maps/) - This free resource offers some basic strategies for interpreting network maps.
- [Map Analysis and Weaving](https://networkweaver.com/resources/map-analysis-and-weaving/) - This slide deck is about a network - the Innovation Learning Network (a network of hospital systems across the U.S.) - that implemented a highly effective strategy to use their maps.
- [Collaborative Projects](https://networkweaver.com/resources/collaborative-projects/) - This survey is to help collaborative work or learning projects increase their awareness of their strengths and challenges and enable them to see the skills that need to be built by the group.
- [Network Assessment Survey](https://networkweaver.com/resources/network-assessment/) - This Network Assessment Survey can enable you to see how well-developed your network is on several different dimensions
- [How to Map Networks: Understand basic elements of Networks (Agile Praxis)](https://networkweaver.com/resources/how-to-map-networks-understand-basic-elements-of-networks-agile-praxis/) - How to understand the elements of Networks
- [Innovation Asset Assessment](https://networkweaver.com/resources/innovation-asset-assessment/) - Network innovation is a key ingredient in system shifting networks. This is a survey you can use to assess just how innovative your network is.
- [Network Mapping and Analysis : How-to Guide](https://networkweaver.com/resources/network-mapping-and-analysis-how-to-guide-societal-platform/) - The guide is developed to serve as a reference framework and provide processes to help consultants and organisations engage in the network mapping and analysis process
- [Wisdom Pearls of the River Delta](https://networkweaver.com/resources/wisdom-pearls-of-the-river-delta/) - Insights from a Systems Change Community of Practice
- [Weaving Networked Action for Systemic Change - A Practical Guide](https://networkweaver.com/resources/weaving-networked-action-for-systemic-change-a-practical-guide/) - This short guide synthesizes the practice of weaving for leaders, social entrepreneurs, and facilitators looking for holistic ways to co-create systemic change.
- [Understanding Movements](https://networkweaver.com/resources/understanding-movements/) - What are movements? What is their relevance in social change? What are some of their defining features? How do they differ from programs or collective impact?
- [TRANSFORMING IMPACT](https://networkweaver.com/resources/transforming-impact/) - a panel of 8 great minds had a dialogue on the ways that impact measurement and evaluation are shifting.
- [Leading Systems Change](https://networkweaver.com/resources/leading-systems-change/) - In Systems Change & Social Impact This workbook is broken down into nine intentionally designed chapters to help provoke thought and facilitate discussion for many different system change concepts. Authored and Published by New Leadership Network DownloadThis workbook is broken down into nine different chapters. These chapters are intentionally designed to help provoke thought and
- [Collective Impact](https://networkweaver.com/resources/collective-impact/) - Systems Shifting Network Approach: Share this chart with your collective impact partners
- [Decentralized Organizing in Moments of Crisis](https://networkweaver.com/resources/decentralized-organizing-in-moments-of-crisis/) - A list of resources and tools to assist in decentralized organizing in moments of crisis.
- [Essential Capacities for Equitable Communities](https://networkweaver.com/resources/essential-capacities-for-equitable-communities/) - the organizational capacities that are uniquely required to build community power— including knowledge, resources, patterns of thinking and being. In Collective Liberation | Racial Equity | Racial Justice An analysis of the organizational capacities that are uniquely required to build community power— including knowledge, resources, patterns of thinking and being. offered by Change Elemental Download An analysis of the organizational capacities that are uniquely required to build community power— including knowledge, resources, patterns of
- [From Learning to Doing](https://networkweaver.com/resources/from-learning-to-doing-2/) - In Network Building | Training | Weaving How you can support people to actually implement what they learn. by June Holley DownloadHow you can support people to actually implement what they learn. How can more people benefit from the learning generated from a learning community? How can we help more people move from hearing about
- [Building a Culture of Learning at Scale](https://networkweaver.com/resources/building-a-culture-of-learning-at-scale/) - In Systems Change & Social Impact Learning Networks for Systems Change: A scoping paper offered by Fiona McKenzie DownloadThis scoping paper explores the question ‘what would it take to build a culture of learning at scale?’. It focuses on systems-wide learning that can help to inform systems change efforts in complex contexts.
- [Blueprints for Change Manual](https://networkweaver.com/resources/blueprints-for-change-manual/) - In Systems Change & Social Impact The Blueprints for Change Progressive Organizing and Campaigning Manual is a compilation of all guides produced through Blueprints for Change up till November 2019 in its current edition. This Manual represents two years’ worth of work and the contributions of over 100 campaign innovators and groups Created and Published by Blueprints
- [A Framework For Universal Well Being](https://networkweaver.com/resources/a-framework-for-universal-well-being/) - In Systems Change & Social Impact How can people become empowered to live for universal wellbeing? by The Weaving Lab DownloadThe Framework would not have come about without the contributions from change leaders around the world. Informed by thousands of conversations with some of the world’s most visionary thinkers and practitioners, it has been impossible
- [A Network Connector Story](https://networkweaver.com/resources/a-network-connector-story/) - In Other Sometimes, a story can convey meaning better than a lecture. This week’s free resource is a story from the early days of the Appalachian Center for Economic Network’s (ACEnet) Kitchen Incubator, describing how staff were network-weaving small food producers in our region. This focus on connecting people is important no matter what type
- [7 Tips for Managing Virtual Meetings with Care during a Pandemic](https://networkweaver.com/resources/7-tips-for-managing-virtual-meetings-with-care-during-a-pandemic/) - In Other Strategies for managing virtual meetings with care, including specific examples of how to practice each tip in your work. By Kiara Nagel DownloadFrom the Author, Kiara Nagel As a professional facilitator and trainer in online and in-person spaces, I have found myself supporting colleagues and loved ones as they move work online, often
- [LESSONS FROM THE PANDEMIC : Insights from network practitioners on managing in and after the pandemic](https://networkweaver.com/resources/lessons-from-the-pandemic-insights-from-network-practitioners-on-managing-in-and-after-the-pandemic/) - In Other A concise set of reflections, silver linings, upsides, and techniques – pulls from the experiences and perspectives of participants across five continents on adapting to and managing during and after the pandemic. Offered by Collective Mind. DownloadCollective Mind Co-Creation: Lessons from the pandemic. In November 2020, following a Community Conversation, Collective Mind facilitated
- [Exploring The Contours Of Systems Change](https://networkweaver.com/resources/exploring-the-contours-of-systems-change/) - In Systems Change & Social Impact A reflective piece authored by the Learning Weaving team at Illuminate. This piece is an attempt to capture the key trends, patterns, and emerging questions that have arisen within Illuminate. offered by Illuminate Download This is a reflective piece authored by the Learning Weaving team at Illuminate, drawing upon
- [QUESTIONS FOR DEEP REFLECTION](https://networkweaver.com/resources/questions-for-deep-reflection/) - In Other A handout of 20 questions that you can use for reflection. Follow up your networking project with this list of questions to help you observe what worked and where you might improve. Download
- [Powerful Questions for Purposeful Leaders](https://networkweaver.com/resources/powerful-questions-for-purposeful-leaders/) - In Other A workbook of themed questions inspiring change from the inside out: first focusing on gaining inner clarity and then translating it into outer action. Offered by Unity Effect. Download ‘A paradigm shift occurs when a question is asked inside the current paradigm that can only be answered from outside it.’ Marilee Goldberg The
- [Lessons Learned and Launching Pads](https://networkweaver.com/resources/lessons-learned-and-launching-pads/) - In Other Over the past seven years, the First 2000 Days Network has invested deeply in an adaptive learning approach. This report summarizes the high-level lessons that came out of the Network’s efforts—prepared by Blythe Butler and Sami Berger. DownloadOver the past seven years, the First 2000 Days Network has invested deeply in an adaptive learning
- [Freeing Up Your Time for Transformation](https://networkweaver.com/resources/freeing-up-your-time-for-transformation/) - In Other This worksheet helps people track what they were doing and then analyze each day’s activities to identify what they really were passionate about, what activities were really making a difference, and what activities they could take off their list because they weren’t really important or making a difference. DownloadEndless to-do lists keep us
- [Connecting, Reinforcing, Aligning & Resourcing a Network-of-Networks](https://networkweaver.com/resources/connecting-reinforcing-aligning-resourcing-a-network-of-networks/) - In Other Download The Chesapeake Bay Program Education Workgroup has a vision where all students in the region graduate environmentally literate. They are assessing whether a regional outdoor learning network could increase communication across partners and networks to support environmental literacy, and increase the number of teacher-supported systemic environmental literacy programs. To inform their assessment,
- [A review of the evidence on developing and supporting policy and practice networks](https://networkweaver.com/resources/a-review-of-the-evidence-on-developing-and-supporting-policy-and-practice-networks/) - In Other This rapid desk review takes a focused look at networks, specifically those that support policy and practice development, from the point of view of charitable organizations that may want to foster them as a way of achieving social change by Ilona Haslewood. Download ‘Networks’ and ‘networking’ are widely used (and often under-defined) concepts.
- [Listado de verificación de Network Weaver](https://networkweaver.com/resources/lista-de-verificacion-network-weaver/) - A spanish/english version of the Network Weaver Checklist. For the english only version click here: El listado de verificación de Network Weaver, ha sido actualizado de la versión del Manual NW (NW Handbook), se encuentra en PDF para hacerlo más simple de imprimir. Este listado es estupendo para dar a las personas de su red
- [Mapping System Shifting Networks](https://networkweaver.com/resources/mapping-system-shifting-networks/) - In Network Surveys & Mapping a training slide-deck to assist system-shifting initiatives in mapping their networks offered by June Holley Download Understand how networks enable systems change Learn the processes for developing and using network and system maps Practice network mapping Discuss how you might use these approaches in your work
- [A Bold Experiment in Relationships, Power & Imagining Leadership Otherwise](https://networkweaver.com/resources/sterling-network-nyc-a-bold-experiment-in-relationships-power-imagining-leadership-otherwise/) - In Other Reimagining relationships, power and leadership in network strategy Report written by Judy Pryor-Ramirez – Independent Research Consultant and shared here by Phil Li & Trish Adobea Tchume – Robert Sterling Clark Foundation DownloadSince 2016 when our foundation first embarked on our exploration of the role and power of networks in building a just and vibrant New York
- [Stepping Into Systems Series](https://networkweaver.com/resources/stepping-into-systems-series/) - In Systems Change & Social Impact Get started on your systems learning journey with the Stepping Into Systems series, covering fundamental systems change topics and concepts. offered by School of Systems Change DownloadStepping into Systems is our introductory series to systems change, covering fundamental topics and concepts that are continuously evolving from multiple ways of
- [Design Foundation for Systems Capital](https://networkweaver.com/resources/design-foundation-for-systems-capital/) - In Systems Change & Social Impact Insights on designing an investment approach that fosters systems innovation and transformation offered by Griffith Centre for Systems Innovation Download What would it look like to design an investment approach with the primary purpose of fostering systems innovation and transformation? In this provocation, we reimagine how capital allocation could
- [Glossary of Network Terms](https://networkweaver.com/resources/glossary-of-network-terms/) - In Network Building | Training | Weaving All the network jargon got your head spinning? This two page handout has dozens of words commonly used in network circles and their definitions. offered by June Holley DownloadAll the network jargon got your head spinning? This two page handout has dozens of words commonly used in network
- [Mapping Contributions to Circularity and Wellbeing](https://networkweaver.com/resources/mapping-contributions-to-circularity-and-wellbeing/) - In Network Surveys & Mapping This report offers an in-depth look at OCTOPI’s findings and methodology mapping community contributions. Offered by OCTOPI You can also access the report directly from OCTOPI here. DownloadLeila Kidson & Cara Eyre of OCTOPI spent May, 2024 on residency with the Goethe Institut in Johannesburg, South Africa – exploring the
- [Toolkit for Self - Organizing](https://networkweaver.com/resources/toolkit-for-self-organizing/) - In Network Building | Training | Weaving Movement NetLab, a Think and Do Collective, offers a set of materials on self-organizing. This module contains Chart- The Stages of Self -Organizing Video – Decentralized Organizing: An Overview Worksheet – Making Waves, Riding the Cycle : The Movement Cycle Chart – What are Networks, Good and Bad
- [Ontwerpprincipes voor slimme netwerkacties](https://networkweaver.com/resources/ontwerpprincipes-voor-slimme-netwerkacties/) - A Dutch translation of Design Principles for Clever Network Actions by Paul van der Cingel. DownloadA Dutch translation of Design Principles for Clever Network Actions. Some people believe that in order to move a network to action, and all you need is an energizing network meeting with motivated and capable people. Alas, it usually takes
- [Iniciandose en la  CAJA DE HERRAMIENTAS de la AUTO-ORGANIZACIÓN](https://networkweaver.com/resources/iniciandose-en-la-caja-de-herramientas-de-la-auto-organizacion/) - La caja de herramientas de ‘auto-organización’ incluye un listado de acciones simples que puedes utilizar para dar inicio a su propia ‘auto-organización’ en su organización o en su red. Incluye una agrupación de actividades, para reuniones que pueda ayudar a la gente a encontrar otros interesados en actividades similares y así como encuestas que puedan
- [PREGUNTAS PARA AYUDAR A QUE OCURRA UNA REFLEXION PROFUNDA](https://networkweaver.com/resources/preguntas-para-ayudar-a-que-ocurra-una-reflexion-profunda/) - QUESTIONS FOR DEEP REFLECTION (Spanish) 20 questions that you can use for reflection. Follow up your networking project with this list of questions to help you observe what worked and where you might improve. Download
- [Network Weaver Checklist (Dutch Translation)](https://networkweaver.com/resources/network-weaver-checklist-dutch-translation/) - The Network Weaver Checklist has been revised from the NW Handbook version and is in PDF format to make it easy for you to print. This Dutch translation was translated by Paul van der Cingel. This checklist is great to give to people in your network at a face-to-face gathering. Download
- [Self-Organizing Toolkit](https://networkweaver.com/resources/self-organizing-toolkit/) - The self-organizing toolkit includes a set of simple actions that you can take to jump start self-organizing in your organization or network. DownloadThe self-organizing toolkit includes a set of simple actions that you can take to jump start self-organizing in your organization or network. It includes a clustering activity for meetings to help people find
- [The Collaborative Leadership Canvas](https://networkweaver.com/resources/the-collaborative-leadership-canvas/) - In Network Building | Training | Weaving A framework to help implement collaborative leadership in your organisation, network or group offered by Social Change Agency / The Social Change Nest DownloadThe Collaborative Leadership Canvas will help you turn the traditional top-down model on its head to redefine leadership as a shared process. By taking a
- [POWER OF NETWORKS: INTERCONNECTEDNESS DRIVES CHANGE](https://networkweaver.com/resources/power-of-networks-interconnectedness-drives-change/) - In Network Building | Training | Weaving In this 90 minutes webinar, Sanjay Purohit, Chief Curator – Societal Platform at EkStep Foundation, discusses the Power of Networks Offered by Societal Thinking DownloadOur world is beset by societal challenges that are large, complex, dynamic and highly contextual. Networks can play a transformative role in resolving these challenges by sparking
- [Network Weaving Workshop](https://networkweaver.com/resources/network-weaving-workshop/) - In Network Building | Training | Weaving A training slide deck offering an introduction to many network concepts. Download as a pdf or access the presentation as an adaptable google drive file. by June Holley DownloadJune Holley offers another training slide deck for use in your organization or network. It provides an introduction to many
- [Network Weaver Mindset Posters](https://networkweaver.com/resources/network-weaver-mindset-posters/) - In Network Building | Training | Weaving Ari Sahagun and Odin Zackman co-designed these seven posters on Network Weaver Mindsets — fresh with ecological metaphors. Feel free to use them in your work! We’d love to hear your thoughts and comments at info@networkweaver.com DownloadAri Sahagun and Odin Zackman co-designed these seven posters on Network Weaver Mindsets —
- [Network Weaver Job Description](https://networkweaver.com/resources/network-weaver-job-description/) - In Network Building | Training | Weaving Many networks are hiring network weavers and/or network coordinators or managers. This resource has two excellent examples of job descriptions. DownloadMany networks are hiring network weavers and/or network coordinators or managers. This resource has two excellent examples of job descriptions.The first example is a network weaver job description
- [Network Toolkit For Network Weavers](https://networkweaver.com/resources/network-toolkit-for-network-weavers/) - In Network Building | Training | Weaving Want to know how start with network building? This free toolkit offers a set of activities you can incorporate into your next gathering to set you on a path to an effective network. DownloadWant to know how start with network building? This free toolkit offers a set of
- [Network Toolkit](https://networkweaver.com/resources/network-toolkit/) - In Network Building | Training | Weaving A free network toolkit, including templates and guides referenced in the book Impact Networks offered by Converge Network DownloadA free network toolkit including templates and guides referenced in the book Impact Networks CLARIFY PURPOSE AND PRINCIPLES CONVENE THE PEOPLE CULTIVATE TRUST COORDINATE ACTIONS COLLABORATE FOR SYSTEMS CHANGE THE ENABLING
- [Network Skills Presentation Slide Deck](https://networkweaver.com/resources/network-skills-presentation-slide-deck/) - In Network Building | Training | Weaving This presentation offers seven specific network skills and processes you can use to build more effective projects. Approaching skill building with a network mindset, you will not only want to become skilled in each of these, but share them with others and help them practice and learn them.
- [Network Evaluation](https://networkweaver.com/resources/network-evaluation/) - In Network Building | Training | Weaving A guide to assist in assessing the value of networks by June Holley Download In complex settings, causality is also complex. We cannot identify a single action that will produce the outcomes we want. We often have to experiment, trying out a number of actions or strategies and
- [Network Concept Cards](https://networkweaver.com/resources/network-concept-cards/) - In Network Building | Training | Weaving The Network Concept Cards were designed for an international Children and Nature Network conference to quickly share essential aspects of network building in social movements. You have eight cards with a single concept. Trade with others until you have a full set of the eight concept cards! Reflect
- [Annotated Bibliography for Developing Regenerative Networks](https://networkweaver.com/resources/annotated-bibliography-for-developing-regenerative-networks/) - In Network Building | Training | Weaving An Annotated Bibliography for Developing Regenerative Networks created by Laura Kaestele DownloadAn Annotated Bibliography for Developing Regenerative Networks created by Laura Kaestele
- [Network Building Canvas](https://networkweaver.com/resources/network-building-canvas/) - In Network Building | Training | Weaving A practical guide for setting up a successful peer network or getting an existing one to flourish. Tested with network and community managers and membership-based organisations and start-ups. It can be used at any time to explore network building ideas. By Social Change Agency. View here Are you
- [Network Basics Presentation Slide Deck](https://networkweaver.com/resources/network-basics-presentation-slide-deck/) - In Network Building | Training | Weaving This presentation covers 7 basic network leadership principles that can guide your work. The slide deck can be used for training or sharing with people who want to learn more about networks. Download
- [Movement Building Canvas](https://networkweaver.com/resources/movement-building-canvas/) - In Network Building | Training | Weaving The Movement Building Canvas is a practical framework to help you, your team or your organisation design your movement for maximum impact. Tested with NGOs, community groups and start-ups, it can be used at any time to explore movement building ideas. View hereAre you a movement builder, or
- [Four Network Principles for Collaboration Success](https://networkweaver.com/resources/four-network-principles-for-collaboration-success/) - In Network Building | Training | Weaving How are some collaborations able to achieve spectacular results while others fail spectacularly? This article introduces four key operating principles that build a culture for collaboration success. DownloadDespite high hopes, hard work, and significant investment, the social sector has experienced countless partnerships that have failed to live up
- [Explicitly Building a Periphery for Your Network](https://networkweaver.com/resources/explicitly-building-a-periphery-for-your-network/) - In Network Building | Training | Weaving How are some collaborations able to achieve spectacular results while others fail spectacularly? This article introduces four key operating principles that build a culture for collaboration success. DownloadDespite high hopes, hard work, and significant investment, the social sector has experienced countless partnerships that have failed to live up
- [Design Principles for Clever Network Actions](https://networkweaver.com/resources/design-principles-for-clever-network-actions/) - In Network Building | Training | Weaving This slide-deck offers some design principles for network actions that foster a culture of self organization. DownloadSome people believe that in order to move a network to action all you need is an energizing network meeting with motivated and capable people. Alas, it usually takes more than that.
- [3 Level Networks](https://networkweaver.com/resources/3-level-networks/) - In Network Building | Training | Weaving Transformation or system shifting requires networks to be involved in networks of networks. This diagram and activity is designed to help networks develop networks of networks to maximize their impact. Networks need to be part of three types of networks, shown in the drawing below. Activity: First, locate
- [Awareness Activities](https://networkweaver.com/resources/awareness-activities/) - In Network Building | Training | Weaving A lot of research has been conducted lately to identify how awareness or mindfulness operates in our brain, the benefits of this mental state, and how we can spend more time in a mindful state. This research is of great value to Network Weavers. Two excellent books on
- [Closing Triangles](https://networkweaver.com/resources/closing-triangles/) - In Network Building | Training | Weaving One of the simplest – and most powerful – ways to weave a network is by closing triangles. Closing Triangles is a diagram showing how to close triangles that you can print out and share with your network so they may learn this basic network weaving skill. DownloadOne
- [Virtual Meeting Role Cards](https://networkweaver.com/resources/virtual-meeting-role-cards/) - In Fostering Connection & Communication These virtual meeting role cards emerged through the process of organizing the monthly Network Weaver Cafes. The roles, if done well, guarantee excellent technical hosting and support, harvesting the key outcomes and facilitating co-creation. Created by Adrian Röbke DownloadA note from the creator of the role cards, Adrian Röbke‎ : Virtual
- [Useful Phrases for Moderators & Facilitators](https://networkweaver.com/resources/useful-phrases-for-moderators-facilitators/) - In Fostering Connection & Communication Key phrases for intentional, efficient & engaging gatherings. Offered by Unity Effect DownloadModerators and facilitators play a crucial role in the success of online workshops and events. They create the atmosphere, make sure participants feel welcomed, keep the time and the discussions on focus and create clarity for everyone joining.
- [Trust: Foundation of Effective Networks](https://networkweaver.com/resources/trust-foundation-of-effective-networks/) - In Fostering Connection & Communication This is a chapter from the Network Weaver Handbook with several worksheets you can use with your networks, projects and organizations. DownloadThis is a chapter from the Network Weaver Handbook with several worksheets you can use with your networks, projects and organizations. They go together nicely with the blog posts Trust
- [Putting Relationships First](https://networkweaver.com/resources/putting-relationships-first/) - In Fostering Connection & Communication This Case Maker assembles the evidence base for putting relationships first, describing why relationships matter, what great relationship-centred practice looks like, and how it could make an impact in your context. offered by Relationships Project DownloadIF YOU WANT TO CHANGE THE WORLD, START WITH RELATIONSHIPS Good relationships are the foundations
- [Planning Engaging Online Events and Workshops](https://networkweaver.com/resources/planning-engaging-online-events-and-workshops/) - In Fostering Connection & Communication A list to assist in planning and creating meaningful online experiences. Offered by Unity Effect DownloadCreating meaningful online experiences ‘The way we gather matters. Gatherings consume our days and help determine the kind of world we live in, in both our intimate and public realms. Gathering – the conscious bringing
- [Peer Assist Process](https://networkweaver.com/resources/peer-assist-process/) - In Fostering Connection & Communication Great as a stand alone session or part of a community of practice, this process helps to build trust and generate fresh thinking. offered by June Holley DownloadThis process is great as a stand alone session or can be part of a community of practice. It is useful when a
- [How to Increase Participation Through Increased Engagement](https://networkweaver.com/resources/how-to-increase-participation-through-increased-engagement/) - In Fostering Connection & Communication This simple worksheet offers tips that you can quickly implement to get network participants interacting with each other. Download Many people ask me “How do I get people to participate more in our network?” This simple worksheet offers tips that you can quickly implement to get network participants interacting with
- [Giving & Receiving Empowering Feedback Toolbox](https://networkweaver.com/resources/giving-receiving-empowering-feedback-toolbox/) - In Fostering Connection & Communication A number of tips, practices, skills and methods for giving and receiving feedback, along with reflection exercises Offered by Unity Effect DownloadWhat comes to mind when you hear the word feedback? Cold chills thinking of hearing hard things about your performance? Awkwardness of sharing negative feedback with a colleague? A
- [Exploring the Collaboration Cycle](https://networkweaver.com/resources/exploring-the-collaboration-cycle/) - In Fostering Connection & Communication A useful tool for understanding the current context of a collaboration and identifying the next steps. offered by the Tamarack Institute DownloadDeepening our collective understanding about collaboration is important. To solve many of the complex issues facing our communities, organizations are increasingly being asked to collaboration with both sector and
- [Community Engagement Canvas](https://networkweaver.com/resources/community-engagement-canvas/) - In Fostering Connection & Communication Essential questions for building meaningful relationships. Offered by The Social Change Agency DownloadCommunity engagement is a key part of any project or program that seeks to directly enhance the lives of the public. When providing services that affect people belonging to a defined area or group, building relationships within that
- [Communication Ecosystem](https://networkweaver.com/resources/communication-ecosystem/) - In Fostering Connection & Communication A process to help co-design your network’s communication ecosystem. Download Use this resource to engage participants in your network in a process to help co-design your network’s communication ecosystem.
- [Building Communities Through Network Weaving](https://networkweaver.com/resources/building-communities-through-network-weaving/) - In Fostering Connection & Communication This paper investigates building sustainable communities through improving their connectivity – internally and externally – using network ties to create opportunities. Offered by June Holley and Vladis Kreb DownloadCommunities are built on connections. Better connections usually provide better opportunities. But, what are better connections, and how do they lead to
- [What Can White People Do?](https://networkweaver.com/resources/what-can-white-people-do/) - In Collective Liberation | Racial Equity | Racial Justice How white people can mindfully, responsibly take on the work of dismantling racism and white supremacy. Download “The beauty of anti-racism is that you don’t have to pretend to be free of racism to be anti-racist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find
- [WeGovern Media Toolkit](https://networkweaver.com/resources/wegovern-media-toolkit/) - In Collective Liberation | Racial Equity | Racial Justice WeGovern is a roadmap for creating new systems that allow for everyone to thrive. It is an invitation to redefine governance. More info found in blog post: This is How #WeGovern *This download contains a PDF with a link to the #WeGovern website as well as
- [Weaving Together a World Without Violence: A Collection of Principles and Recipes for Healing](https://networkweaver.com/resources/weaving-together-a-world-without-violence-a-collection-of-principles-and-recipes-for-healing/) - In Collective Liberation | Racial Equity | Racial Justice Companion to the medicine cards, the healing cookbook provides more detailed information about the principles, ingredients and recipes and how they might be used. The cookbook also links these elements to the learnings and tools put forth by our mentors, partners and wisdom keepers in the field. Co-created by sixteen
- [Weaving Together a World Without Violence - Medicine Cards](https://networkweaver.com/resources/weaving-together-a-world-without-violence-medicine-cards/) - In Collective Liberation | Racial Equity | Racial Justice Companion to the healing cookbook, the medicine card deck is arranged into five suits: invocations, principles, ingredients, recipes and wild card. These cards are designed to invoke the senses as well as the intellect, through visual representation, inquiry, and invitations to practice physical movement; they challenge the user to engage in
- [Value and Impact of the Purpose Built Community of Practice](https://networkweaver.com/resources/value-and-impact-of-the-purpose-built-community-of-practice/) - In Collective Liberation | Racial Equity | Racial Justice The story of Purpose Built’s successful and compelling journey to adopt and implement a Community of Practice strategy to support neighborhood revitalization and racial equity. by Knowledge Communities, in collaboration with Purpose Built Communities DownloadKnowledge Communities, in collaboration with Purpose Built Commupose nities , have released a
- [SYSTEMS CHANGE & DEEP EQUITY: Pathways Toward Sustainable Impact, Beyond “Eureka!,” Unawareness & Unwitting Harm](https://networkweaver.com/resources/systems-change-deep-equity-pathways-toward-sustainable-impact-beyond-eureka-unawareness-unwitting-harm/) - In Collective Liberation | Racial Equity | Racial Justice This monograph illuminates essential dimensions of approaches to Systems Change, which are intimately connected with Deep Equity. It also offers ideas about how to bring racial — and other intersecting aspects of equity — more deeply and centrally into your systems change work. Offered by Sheryl
- [Dismantling Racism and White Supremacy Culture](https://networkweaver.com/resources/dismantling-racism-and-white-supremacy-culture/) - In Collective Liberation | Racial Equity | Racial Justice A working bibliography of resources for dismantling racism and white supremacy culture DownloadA working bibliography of resources for dismantling racism and white supremacy culture. “We must center dismantling white supremacy culture in our networks in order to become networks that shift the system toward liberation for
- [Catalyzing Learning and Action for Equitable Systems Change](https://networkweaver.com/resources/catalyzing-learning-and-action-for-equitable-systems-change/) - In Collective Liberation | Racial Equity | Racial Justice This study examines how thousands of graduates of leadership development and fellowship programs are harnessing alumni wisdom and actions to advance racial equity and racial healing. offered by W.K. Kellogg Foundation DownloadLeadership Program Alumni Networks: Catalyzing Learning and Action for Equitable Systems Change This study examines
- [Becoming an Anti-Racist and Multicultural Organization](https://networkweaver.com/resources/becoming-an-anti-racist-and-multicultural-organization/) - In Collective Liberation | Racial Equity | Racial Justice A summary of The Wallace Center‘s journey thus far towards centering racial justice and equity in their organization in a meaningful, authentic, and accountable way as embodied in their racial equity commitments. Download“By sharing our own story, we might encourage others to interrogate their own blind
- [A Future for All of Us](https://networkweaver.com/resources/a-future-for-all-of-us/) - In Collective Liberation | Racial Equity | Racial Justice A REPORT ON PHASE 1 OF THE BUTTERFLY LAB FOR IMMIGRANT NARRATIVE STRATEGY + A NARRATIVE DESIGN TOOLKIT Offered by Jeff Chang, Nayantara Sen, Janelle Treibitz, sára abdullah and Kana Hammon The Butterfly Lab for Immigrant Narrative Strategy at Race Forward DownloadIn Phase 1 of the
- [Fight The Return of the Old Normal](https://networkweaver.com/resources/fight-the-return-of-the-old-normal/) - In Collective Liberation | Racial Equity | Racial Justice A Guidebook for Envisioning a Racially Just & Transformative Future offered by Interaction Institute for Social Change DownloadWe can choose to live in the “old normal” of racial injustice and human exhaustion or we can imagine and design our new normal. Do you want a “normal”
- [Measuring Love in the Journey for Justice](https://networkweaver.com/resources/measuring-love-in-the-journey-for-justice/) - In Collective Liberation | Racial Equity | Racial Justice In this Brown Paper, we call upon love as an antidote to injustice. We call for a catalytic, decolonizing, transformative love. offered by Shiree Teng *see disclaimer below Download*After the Measuring Love Brown paper was released, Shiree’s co-author was arrested on allegations of child molestation. She
- [Healing Love into Balance](https://networkweaver.com/resources/healing-love-into-balance/) - In Collective Liberation | Racial Equity | Racial Justice This paper is about our capacity to love our world back into Balance. Balance at the structural level, within and across systems like education, justice, food, housing, health, the media, and community development, is made possible by people and organizations cultivating balance within and between one

## Consultants

- [Namrata Arora](https://networkweaver.com/consultants/namrata-arora/) - Circle Convenor, Community Weaver, DEIB Consultant, Certified Professional Coach, Writer, Systems Thinker and mom, Namrata runs an NGO, Zemyna Foundation in India
- [Emily Carroll](https://networkweaver.com/consultants/emily-carroll/) - Emily Carroll is an independent consultant. She works on projects that focus on public health and healthcare issues.
- [Christine Capra](https://networkweaver.com/consultants/christine-capra/) - Christine Capra is the developer of the Social System Mapping methodology and the founder of Greater Than The Sum.
- [Dr. Naava L. Frank](https://networkweaver.com/consultants/dr-naava-l-frank/) - Dr. Naava L. Frank is a seasoned consultant and facilitator with extensive experience creating, sustaining, and scaling Communities of Practice
- [Froswa' Booker-Drew](https://networkweaver.com/consultants/froswa-booker-drew/) - Froswa’ Booker-Drew, Ph.D. is a Network Weaver who believes relationships are the key to our personal, professional, and organizational growth.
- [Courageous Change Collective](https://networkweaver.com/consultants/courageous-change-collective/) - A Minnesota based organization committed to growing communities of love and justice through transformative facilitation.
- [Kiara Nagel](https://networkweaver.com/consultants/kiara-nagel/) - Kiara Nagel is a creative strategist with 20 years of experience building creative and collaborative social change initiatives.
- [Jane Wei-Skillern](https://networkweaver.com/consultants/jane-wei-skillern/) - Jane Wei-Skillern is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Social Sector Leadership at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
- [Alexis Goggans](https://networkweaver.com/consultants/alexis-goggans/) - Alexis Goggans, PCC is a credentialed coach, a trusted consultant, an equitable decarbonization advisor, and a wellness practitioner.
- [Laura Kaestele](https://networkweaver.com/consultants/laura-kaestele/) - Laura Kaestele works as a network weaver, designer, facilitator, project coordinator, and grower focusing on integrative design, ecological regeneration, community and network development, permaculture, and holistic living with 15 years of practical experience contributing to an eco-social just transition.
- [Sarah Ann Shanahan](https://networkweaver.com/consultants/sarah-ann-shanahan/) - As the Director of Community Management, Sarah is responsible for fostering a healthy ecosystem within the Network.
- [Amy Moritz](https://networkweaver.com/consultants/amy-moritz/) - Amy Moritz is an experienced consultant who guides organizations to discover and realize their potential for lasting social change through consulting, training, facilitation, and coaching.
- [Ulises S. Aguila](https://networkweaver.com/consultants/ulises-s-aguila/) - Ulises specializes in designing and facilitating change that is coherent, creative, and participatory. With a strong foundation in critical thinking and human-centered practices, I help organizations unlock their potential by aligning people, processes, and strategies.
- [Kristin Johnstad](https://networkweaver.com/consultants/kristin-johnstad/) - Kristin is a seasoned network weaver who cultivates the capacity of others to see, understand and influence network patterns to get positive results.
- [Laila Martins](https://networkweaver.com/consultants/laila-martins/) - Laila Martins is passionate about creating a regenerative and thriving future for everyone, including both humans and the more-than-human world.
- [Kimberley Jutze](https://networkweaver.com/consultants/kimberley-jutze/) - Kimberley Jutze is an organization development practitioner and social activist dedicated to facilitating social change.
- [Debbie Gowensmith](https://networkweaver.com/consultants/debbie-gowensmith/) - Debbie specializes in culturally grounded, participatory approaches, trauma-informed practices, and systems thinking.
- [Katy Mamem](https://networkweaver.com/consultants/katy-mamem/) - Katy is passionate about participatory change-making approaches that account for the complexity of multiple, interconnectedness crises and diverse lived experiences.
- [Sami Berger](https://networkweaver.com/consultants/sami-berger/) - Sami’s practice focuses on developing and implementing learning strategies within networks, collaborative initiatives, and non-profit organizations that are striving to make a positive difference in their communities.

## Venues

- [School of Social Change](https://networkweaver.com/venue/school-of-social-change/)
- [Unity Effect](https://networkweaver.com/venue/unity-effect/)
- [Dialogue + Design Associates](https://networkweaver.com/venue/dialogue-design-associates/)
- [Loyola University Retreat and Ecology Campus (LUREC)](https://networkweaver.com/venue/loyola-university-retreat-and-ecology-campus-lurec/)
- [CoCreative](https://networkweaver.com/venue/cocreative/)

## Organizers

- [Greater than the Sun](https://networkweaver.com/organizer/greater-than-the-sun/)
- [Equity In The Center](https://networkweaver.com/organizer/equity-in-the-center/)
- [7th Generation Labs](https://networkweaver.com/organizer/7th-generation-labs/)
- [Tamarack](https://networkweaver.com/organizer/tamarack/)
- [Weaving Futures](https://networkweaver.com/organizer/weaving-futures/)
- [Partnership Brokers Association](https://networkweaver.com/organizer/partnership-brokers-association/)
- [Ana Polanco](https://networkweaver.com/organizer/ana-polanco/)
- [The Social Change Nest](https://networkweaver.com/organizer/the-social-change-nest/)
- [Root Rise Pollinate](https://networkweaver.com/organizer/root-rise-pollinate/)
- [Leadership Learning Community](https://networkweaver.com/organizer/leadership-learning-community/) - This Affinity Group is a space for leaders to connect, share learning, and engage in collective healing.
- [Circle Generation](https://networkweaver.com/organizer/circle-generation/)
- [IISC](https://networkweaver.com/organizer/iisc/)
- [Circe Generation](https://networkweaver.com/organizer/circe-generation-2/)
- [Collective Impact Forum](https://networkweaver.com/organizer/collective-impact-forum/)
- [Unity Effect](https://networkweaver.com/organizer/unity-effect/)
- [Seventh Generation Labs](https://networkweaver.com/organizer/seventh-generation-labs/)
- [Resonance Network](https://networkweaver.com/organizer/resonance-network/) - an immersive, hands-on experience for leaders, organizers, and teams to see their work in relation to a worldview rooted in mutual care and collective thriving.
- [CoCreative](https://networkweaver.com/organizer/cocreative/) - Step into the process of collaborative innovation with our immersive and highly experiential facilitation-focused workshop.
- [Fito](https://networkweaver.com/organizer/fito/)
- [Circe Generation](https://networkweaver.com/organizer/circe-generation/)
- [Food Solutions New England](https://networkweaver.com/organizer/food-solutions-new-england/)
- [Collective Change Lab](https://networkweaver.com/organizer/collective-change-lab/)

## Events

- [Network Development Learning Collaborative](https://networkweaver.com/event/network-development-learning-collaborative/) - Early bird pricing is available until September 4, and final registration closes September 25. Effective networks require balancing strategy, relationships, governance, and day-to-day operations. Yet many network leaders, managers, members, and supporters are left wondering: What’s working well? Where should we focus our efforts? How do we build a stronger, more effective network without relying
- [Two Spirit Perspectives in Community Research](https://networkweaver.com/event/two-spirit-perspectives-in-community-research/) - Two Spirit perspectives remain significantly under-represented in community research. Addressing this gap is essential to building research practices that are more inclusive, relational, and accountable to community. Join KD (Keith) King (he/they), Public Health Nurse and Researcher, and Rochelle Ignacio (she/her), Director of Equity, Anti-Racism and Reconciliation at Tamarack Institute, on September 2 from 1:00
- [Engaging Living Systems](https://networkweaver.com/event/engaging-living-systems/) - Engaging with living systems takes more than tools and frameworks. To embody system change is to change what you pay attention to — and how. To help others embody it is to actively accompany that change — meeting people inside their frames without losing your own, and finding moves that open both frames wider — always from a
- [Skills for Shifting Systems: Building Capacity for Lasting Change](https://networkweaver.com/event/skills-for-shifting-systems-building-capacity-for-lasting-change/) - Many of today's most complex challenges – housing affordability, community safety, mental health, climate resilience, poverty, and health equity – cannot be solved by programs and services alone. Programs respond to immediate needs while systems change addresses the underlying structures, relationships, mindsets, policies, and power dynamics that keep those challenges in place. For changemakers, the
- [Introduction to Collaborative Innovation](https://networkweaver.com/event/introduction-to-collaborative-innovation-2/) - Transform how you lead multi-stakeholder change. Introduction to Collaborative Innovation is an immersive workshop that covers a powerful framework and tools for uniting diverse stakeholders and driving meaningful systems change. Melissa Darnell and Issac M. Carter, PhD. will guide you through hands-on exercises on the Four Agendas of Collaborative Innovation. You'll learn to diagnose why
- [Wild Times Gathering](https://networkweaver.com/event/wild-times-gathering/) - What does it mean to build communities that can thrive in wild times? The Social Change Nest is hosting the Wild Times Gathering: a day of conversation, connection and collective learning, bringing together organisers, campaigners, artists, researchers and community builders from across the UK. Together we’ll explore themes including Threads of Care, Regenerative Futures, community
- [Patterns of Relationship – Curating Spaces for Relationship Building](https://networkweaver.com/event/patterns-of-relationship-curating-spaces-for-relationship-building/) - Date: Wednesday, 26 August 2026 Time: 16:00 SAST / 17:00 EAT / 14:00 GMT / 09:00 EST / 06:00 PST (90mins) Zoom details to follow registration Topic: Patterns of Relationship – Curating Spaces for Relationship Building More coming soon! Session Format In our Problems of Practice (PoP) sessions, we come together virtually for 90 minutes as practitioners. We
- [Strengthening Relational & Accountable Practices for Collective Work](https://networkweaver.com/event/strengthening-relational-accountable-practices-for-collective-work/) - Conflict often feels like an unexpected storm—unsettling, sometimes destructive, but always pointing to deeper undercurrents. What if, instead of bracing for impact, we learned to step into conflict as a signal—an invitation to grow, to take accountability, and to transform? In this workshop, we’ll explore a different way of being with conflict—one that is relational,
- [What it means to 'do' Systems Thinking: Lessons for Working With and Within Systems](https://networkweaver.com/event/what-it-means-to-do-systems-thinking-lessons-for-working-with-and-within-systems/) - Systems thinking and complexity-based approaches are ever-increasing in their prominence in professional practice. Every other day there are policies, programs, or responses that 'use systems thinking', are 'systems informed', or 'systems aware' - but what does it mean to be incorporating a systems view in to our work? Over the past five years, more and
- [Seedling Series: Social Movement Ecology](https://networkweaver.com/event/seedling-series-social-movement-ecology/) - We tend to approach change one organisation, project, or intervention at a time. Yet significant social change is never produced by a single actor. It emerges from the interaction of many organisations, campaigns, and communities working within and across multiple issues, often without ever coordinating directly. When this field is healthy, small efforts compound into
- [Community Futures 101](https://networkweaver.com/event/community-futures-101/) - How can communities and organizations plan for futures that are increasingly unpredictable and complex? This workshop introduces practical Futures Thinking tools and approaches, including foresight, scenario planning, and horizon scanning, to help participants build resilience, adaptability, innovation, and equity into community and systems change work. By attending, you will: Explore practical Futures Thinking tools to build resilient
- [Sustaining the Leadership of Black Women Chief Executives: The Role of the Board in Aligning Accountability and Action](https://networkweaver.com/event/sustaining-the-leadership-of-black-women-chief-executives-the-role-of-the-board-in-aligning-accountability-and-action/) - As civil rights protections and equity initiatives face increasing challenges, nonprofit and philanthropic organizations are navigating a moment of profound uncertainty. At the same time, many institutions are being led by an unprecedented number of Black leaders and leaders of color, particularly Black women, who often face heightened scrutiny, bias, and unequal expectations while carrying
- [The NETWORKS FESTIVAL](https://networkweaver.com/event/the-networks-festival/) - A six-week global gathering to connect, imagine, and rewire how change happens. Online | May 18 - June 26, 2026 This year's Festival tracks: Evaluating impact in networks and movements Mapping ripples of change Collective organizing & decision-making Tools and tech for networks More equitable and just collaborations Healing-centered leadership practices Funding networks! Learn
- [Circle Generation PoP Up Talk Shop 27 May 2026](https://networkweaver.com/event/circle-generation-pop-up-talk-shop-27-may-2026/) - Date: Wednesday, 27 May 2026 Time: 16:00 SAST / 17:00 EAT / 14:00 GMT / 09:00 EST / 06:00 PST (90mins) Zoom details to follow registration Topic: Methods of Valuing Contribution Come share your experiences in a conversation that moves “beyond money” to explore different methods of resourcing networks. What kinds of contributions show up in your network?
- [This is How WeGovern: An Applied Learning Space](https://networkweaver.com/event/this-is-how-wegovern-an-applied-learning-space-2/) - In a world that shifts faster than we can keep up, we often carry questions of safety, purpose, and impact. When we hear the word governance, it can bring to mind systems that feel distant—or even working against us—especially in these times. What would it take to build systems rooted in mutual care? Who is
- [Open Hour: OC drop-ins | Hosted by The Social Change Nest | Online](https://networkweaver.com/event/open-hour-oc-drop-ins-hosted-by-the-social-change-nest-online/) - Join our monthly OC drop-ins where we chat about all things Open Collective with our groups. Whether you're stuck on how to update a policy or wondering how to raise an expense, no question is too small. And if you’ve not got any questions but want to swap tips or get to know other members
- [Power Dynamics: Get un-stuck between powerless and powerful](https://networkweaver.com/event/power-dynamics-get-un-stuck-between-powerless-and-powerful/) - Most of us working in social change have a complicated relationship with power. We feel its absence: in teams where decisions happen around us, in systems that seem immune to influence. And we're often reluctant to step fully into our own power, because we've seen what harm looks like when power goes unexamined. That ambivalence keeps us
- [The How is the What: Relational Practices for Thriving Networks](https://networkweaver.com/event/the-how-is-the-what-relational-practices-for-thriving-networks/) - What does it actually take to lead networks that build both internal culture and external impact? This session brings together three practitioners whose work sits at the intersection of network leadership, relational practice, and liberatory frameworks to explore that very question. Rather than a panel or lecture, this session is designed to be the answer
- [Liberatory Decision Making / Práctica de Toma de Decisiones Libertadora](https://networkweaver.com/event/liberatory-decision-making-practica-de-toma-de-decisiones-libertadora/) - How we make decisions is a reflection of our values and our relationship to power. In many organizations, decision-making is often a source of frustration, conflict, and power struggles. Join Ananda Valenzuela for a session dedicated to the practice of Liberatory Decision-Making. Together, we will explore the Advice Process, a practical framework that identifies decision-makers, seeks meaningful
- [Working with Complexity: Beyond Analytical Knowing](https://networkweaver.com/event/working-with-complexity-beyond-analytical-knowing/) - This experiential workshop helps leaders and facilitators expand beyond purely analytical approaches by integrating somatic, intuitive, and feeling-based ways of knowing—enhancing their ability to navigate complexity and lead more effective, human-centered systems change. In this hands-on workshop, you will: Learn how to help groups access and trust their somatic, feeling, and intuitive ways of knowing
- [Intergenerational Regeneration Pollination](https://networkweaver.com/event/intergenerational-regeneration-pollination/) - An invitation to gather across generations What might change if young people and adults had more spaces to meet each other as collaborators, not just learners and mentors? In this InterGenerational Regeneration Pollination, we bring together young people, educators, community leaders, and network builders to explore how cross-generational learning ecosystems can help renew democracy. The
- [The 'How' of Collective Decision-Making](https://networkweaver.com/event/the-how-of-collective-decision-making/) - Collective or participatory decision-making is a process where people affected by a decision are actively involved in shaping it, rather than decisions being made solely by a central authority. It emphasizes shared power, diverse perspectives, and collaborative deliberation to arrive at more inclusive, informed, and sustainable outcomes. So, how do you do it? Join Sean
- [Building Your Theory of Change](https://networkweaver.com/event/building-your-theory-of-change/) - A theory of change is far more than a methodological tool; it is a strategic and narrative compass that helps clarify why and how our actions contribute to lasting transformation. It invites us to make explicit the links between our intentions, our activities, and the changes we seek to bring about, while recognizing the complexity
- [Community Change Summit](https://networkweaver.com/event/community-change-summit/) - After three years apart, we’re coming back together - in person, in purpose, and in possibility. This Fall, join a movement of changemakers from across Canada and beyond for a summit that celebrates the courage of community, the power of place, and the promise of what’s next. Together, we’ll learn, connect, and accelerate solutions that transform lives and
- [Regenerative M&E for Post-Growth, Decolonial Marketing](https://networkweaver.com/event/regenerative-me-for-post-growth-decolonial-marketing/) - How do we measure without reducing, colonizing, or commodifying? What does accountability look like when marketing itself is part of a living system? In this session of the Regenerative Evaluation Dialogue Series, Unity Effect joins Zebra Growth to explore evaluation through a post-growth, decolonial lens. The conversation will examine how regenerative M&E can support marketing
- [Wisdom on Change](https://networkweaver.com/event/wisdom-on-change/) - One of the most frequent questions we receive is: "How do we support staff during a leadership transition?" Effectively navigating change requires a foundation of trust, care, deliberate stabilization, and collaborative effort. Join the LLC team for a webinar on the anatomy of leadership transitions, insights on the questions we receive most often, and strategies
- [From Attribution to Contribution: Cultivating a Theory of Systems Change with the Impact Garden](https://networkweaver.com/event/from-attribution-to-contribution-cultivating-a-theory-of-systems-change-with-the-impact-garden/) - How do we move beyond the "Heropreneur" model–the lone change-maker whose impact is linear, attributable, and clean—toward a living Theory of Systems Change? In this session of the Regenerative Evaluation Dialogue Series, Jannik Kaiser from Unity Effect joins Daniela Papi-Thornton from Systems. Change. Educators. Unite. to unpack the limits of traditional Theories of Change and
- [Regenerative Signal: Professional development for Regenerative Evaluation practitioners](https://networkweaver.com/event/regenerative-signal-professional-development-for-regenerative-evaluation-practitioners/) - When: 5 monthly sessions, Wednesdays 3-4.30pm CET. May 20, June 17, July 15, September 16, October 21 Facilitated by: Jannik Kaiser and Hannah Connors Learn more and sign up here: https://eveeno.com/regen-signal-2026 Monitoring & Evaluation often feels like a tax on doing good. For many organizations and practitioners, measuring impact has become a compliance exercise—we
- [Network Leadership Series](https://networkweaver.com/event/network-leadership-series-3/) - he Network Leadership Series (NLS) is a participatory learning journey designed to build your confidence and capability as a relational leader. Over eight weeks, a small cohort of practitioners from around the world explore strategies that amplify collaboration in networks, organizations, and teams. Each session models participant engagement techniques and builds depth across three foundations:
- [Network Leadership Series](https://networkweaver.com/event/network-leadership-series-2/) - The Network Leadership Series (April 15 - June 3) is an 8-session intensive training on leading impact networks -- aligning purpose, trust, and practice to transform systems. Accelerate Your Impact Network Leadership Spring 2026 Cohort: April 15th - June 3, 2026 Network Leadership Series (NLS) is where you develop the capacity to lead networks, cultivate
- [Mending the Arc: Art + Storytelling Orientation](https://networkweaver.com/event/mending-the-arc-art-storytelling-orientation/2026-03-04/) - Mending the Arc: Art + Storytelling Orientation offers a grounding in our intergenerational storytelling and art practice—inviting participants to connect with ancestral memory, creativity, and collective care. This orientation serves as your entry point to the monthly Mending the Arc practice, where storytelling and art merge to deepen your connection with ancestral wisdom and your role
- [REM Session Anna Bartel](https://networkweaver.com/event/rem-session-anna-bartel/) - Ripple Effects Mapping for Networks with Anna Sims Bartel, PhD, hosted by Circle Generation in collaboration with Fito Network Click here to register
- [Focus & Frame: Choosing Where To Place Your Attention](https://networkweaver.com/event/focus-frame-choosing-where-to-place-your-attention/) - We don’t come together because we have all the answers. We come because we are living the questions. This series offers shared practices for sense-making, reflection, and connection. This series offers space to tend to our inner landscapes while staying in relationship with the world and with one another. It is a place to slow
- [Launch of the Regenerative Evaluation Living Paper](https://networkweaver.com/event/launch-of-the-regenerative-evaluation-living-paper/) - Regenerative Evaluation is evaluation in service of life: empowering people, shifting power dynamics, and therefore contributing to co-creating desirable futures. Join us for the official launch of the Regenerative Evaluation Living Paper. This publication is a collective labor of love from the Regenerative Evaluation Community of Practice. Over the past 2.5 years, practitioners, evaluators, and
- [Emotions in Motion: Mapping The Landscape Of How We Feel](https://networkweaver.com/event/emotions-in-motion-mapping-the-landscape-of-how-we-feel/) - We don’t come together because we have all the answers. We come because we are living the questions. This series offers shared practices for sense-making, reflection, and connection. This series offers space to tend to our inner landscapes while staying in relationship with the world and with one another. It is a place to slow
- [Network Weaving Tools Users Group meet up: February 2026](https://networkweaver.com/event/network-weaving-tools-users-group-meet-up-february-2026/) - Technology in health and care is advancing rapidly, but many people remain digitally excluded. Someone who is not connected in this way could face many challenges when managing their health. Online portals, telehealth services, remote monitoring, online peer support groups, and opportunities for better communication and coordination: having digital access to reliable information about a health
- [The Collective is More Effective](https://networkweaver.com/event/the-collective-is-more-effective/) - The Collective is More Effective — Course Registration is open! Are you ready to strengthen your community, deepen collaboration, and lead with clarity and confidence? The Collective Course is designed for community leaders, organizers, and partners who want to build thriving, resilient collaboratives that actually move the needle. Inside this eight-week, online course, you’ll learn
- [COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP: Unlocking the future of leadership](https://networkweaver.com/event/collaborative-leadership-unlocking-the-future-of-leadership/) - Over five powerful weeks, Collaborative Leadership takes you on a journey of discovery and growth. You’ll strengthen your ability to connect with others, navigate complex dynamics, and spark meaningful change. Working on a real challenge that matters to you, you’ll leave with proven strategies, fresh perspectives, and a renewed vision of what it means to
- [Reclaim Connection: Family Dynamics during the Holidays](https://networkweaver.com/event/reclaim-connection-family-dynamics-during-the-holidays/) - As the holidays approach, family dynamics often come into sharper focus. Whether you have a big family with lots of personalities or no living family members, the holiday period from November to March can flare up what is bothering us from the inside. These unresolved dynamics can get in the way of truly enjoying who
- [November PoP Up Talk Shop: Engaging Power & Conflict - Clarifying Purpose](https://networkweaver.com/event/november-pop-up-talk-shop-engaging-power-conflict-clarifying-purpose/) - Join our next session as we discuss how to engage power dynamics and conflict in our networks. Power dynamics can show up in a variety of ways and if not well addressed may lead to tension and can undermine collaborative efforts. The session will be co-facilitated by Creative Metier and Circle Generation for a participant-led exploration of
- [Building Blocks 3: Team Power](https://networkweaver.com/event/building-blocks-3-team-power/) - Making social change requires energy and passion – but sustaining that work takes resources, strategies, and supportive ways of working. It is becoming increasingly important for supporters, volunteers and team members to feel a sense of belonging within organisations they can trust. The tools shared in the final workshop of this series will focus on
- [Feeding Ourselves: Networks, Data and Policy for Just and Sustainable Food Systems](https://networkweaver.com/event/feeding-ourselves-networks-data-and-policy-for-just-and-sustainable-food-systems/) - Who Should Attend? This session is ideal for anyone interested in social change, equitable wellbeing, and new ways of building stronger communities, grounded in trust, alignment, and distributed action in the service of sustainability, equity, and justice. If you can’t attend live, this session will be recorded. Why This Matters Now COVID-19 revealed what many
- [Grow: How to flow through dinner table conversations this holiday season](https://networkweaver.com/event/grow-how-to-flow-through-dinner-table-conversations-this-holiday-season/) - As we near the holiday season, it’s important that we resource ourselves well to flow through the places and spaces that might challenge us most- spending time with family members we love, but may not always agree with. Blaze Bell is a podcast host, speaker, victims rights advocate, communications strategist, and empowerment coach. As leaders
- [This is How WeGovern: An Applied Learning Space](https://networkweaver.com/event/this-is-how-wegovern-an-applied-learning-space/2025-10-15/) - This is How WeGovern invites each of us—leaders, organizers, and changemakers—to step into a practice of governance that is as intentional, relational, and accountable as our hope is bold. It’s an invitation to explore not just the rules that govern us, but the ways we can actively create systems that center dignity, mutual care, and
- [Ancestral Echoes, Liberated Futures: Leading through the lens of family and systems constellations](https://networkweaver.com/event/ancestral-echoes-liberated-futures-leading-through-the-lens-of-family-and-systems-constellations/) - To center a liberatory leadership practice is to acknowledge the symmetry of love across a cosmic order between our living and deceased ancestors who have led our families, communities, and movements. The hidden symmetries of love between our personal leadership and our family system represent a hidden treasure map of wisdom to help us make
- [Facilitating Collaborative Innovation](https://networkweaver.com/event/facilitating-collaborative-innovation-3/) - Designed for leaders eager to implement and facilitate powerful collaborative processes within their own networks, this course goes beyond theory, providing you with practical tools and hands-on experience. About This Opportunity Step into the process of collaborative innovation with our immersive and highly experiential facilitation-focused workshop. Designed for leaders eager to implement and facilitate powerful collaborative processes
- [Free Online Workshop: Empowerment - from getting things done alone to catalysing the potential of every team member - hosted by Unity Effect](https://networkweaver.com/event/free-online-workshop-empowerment/) - How do you empower your team members to work autonomously while staying aligned with the overall vision? Ideas typically start with just a few people, but as more contributors join, different strategies are needed for getting work done.
- [Story, Narrative and Systems Learning & Practice Series](https://networkweaver.com/event/story-narrative-and-systems-learning-practice-series/2025-09-17/) - An inspirational learning & practice series on story, narrative and systems to explore how you understand your contribution and learn from your ambitious systems change work. In a world saturated with competing narratives – many designed to polarise, overwhelm and inhibit agency – this series invites you to explore the potential of story to contribute
- [The Serviceberry Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World](https://networkweaver.com/event/the-serviceberry-abundance-and-reciprocity-in-the-natural-world/) - Join us to explore the possibilities with Kindred Spirits How can we move from a system that harms what we love and need to a system that nurtures all? How can many small initiatives disrupt the destruction we face? Kimmerer’s words help us find our own path to contribute to "All Flourishing is Mutual"
- [The Mayan CosmoVision: A Source of Insight and Support for Our Times](https://networkweaver.com/event/the-mayan-cosmovision-a-source-of-insight-and-support-for-our-times/) - You're invited to a special gathering with Julio Tot, a Mayan spiritual guide from Guatemala, who will introduce us to the Mayan CosmoVision
- [RE-AMP Systems Thinking Academy](https://networkweaver.com/event/re-amp-systems-thinking-academy/) - Deepen Your Systems Practice – In Community with the RE-AMP Network Are you an impact network practitioner — a leader, catalyst, consultant, or funder — looking to deepen your capacity to help others think and act systemically? Have you also been curious to learn more about the frequently cited RE-AMP Network? This year’s RE-AMP Systems Thinking Academy offers a
- [Wisdom of Change](https://networkweaver.com/event/wisdom-of-change/) - Space for staff and managers navigating through organizational transition(s) to connect on the challenges of transitions and wisdom on change.
- [Stories That Change Us: Exploring Equity through Shared Experience](https://networkweaver.com/event/stories-that-change-us-exploring-equity-through-shared-experience/) - The Fito Network, in collaboration with Illuminate, invites you to a series of global storytelling workshops where we will gather to share, reflect, and listen. Together, we’ll explore how equity and justice show up in our work, and how stories, in all their complexity and power, can help us see, feel, and shift systems. Why stories?
- [Facilitative Leadership™ for Social Change (In-Person)](https://networkweaver.com/event/facilitative-leadership-for-social-change-in-person/) - Lead in a way that inspires, invites participation, and builds commitment Facilitative Leadership™ for Social Change develops practical collaborative skills and tools for tapping the creativity, experience, and commitment of groups and provides participants with a forum in which to explore their challenges and aspirations as leaders. This will be a 2.5 day in-person workshop.
- [Working with Difference: Leveraging Creative Tensions](https://networkweaver.com/event/working-with-difference-leveraging-creative-tensions/) - This course is perfect for leaders who anticipate needing to manage deeply ingrained differences and concerns among various stakeholder groups.
- [Regenerative Signal: A Journey of Evaluation, Recognition and Learning](https://networkweaver.com/event/regenerative-signal-a-journey-of-evaluation-recognition-and-learning/) - At Unity Effect, we believe in creating the conditions for systemic change from the inside out. In a time of deep transformation, from climate change and cultural disconnection to social fragmentation and global trade uncertainty, signals of regeneration are all around and within us. Recognising and sharing about these signals are powerful ways to shape desirable
- [Next Economies Summit 2025](https://networkweaver.com/event/next-economies-summit-2025/) - The Economies of the Future Will Be Discussed in Istanbul: Next Economies Summit 2025 Next Economies Summit 2025, taking place on September 12–14, 2025, at Kadir Has University in Istanbul. Organized by the Prosumer Economy Society and Kadir Has University’s Center for Energy and Sustainable Development (CESD), the summit will be held under the theme
- [Network Leadership Series](https://networkweaver.com/event/network-leadership-series/) - September 2025 cohort now open for registration! At the intersection of theory and practice, the Network Leadership Series (NLS) is an 8-week participatory learning cohort designed to deepen the understanding and practice of network coordination. Participants collectively explore ways to apply strategies in their networks, organizations, and with other practitioners. Know someone who may benefit
- [Light Work for Heavy Times: Networks as Fuel for Long-Term Collective Wellbeing](https://networkweaver.com/event/light-work-for-heavy-times-networks-as-fuel-for-long-term-collective-wellbeing/) - Who Should Attend? This session is ideal for anyone interested in social change, equitable wellbeing, and new ways of building stronger communities and grounded in trust, alignment, and distributed action in the service of sustainability, equity, and justice. Why This Matters Now These are both challenging and promising times. Low vibrations and descendant energies seem
- [Envisioning an Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship Sector in Germany](https://networkweaver.com/event/envisioning-an-inclusive-social-entrepreneurship-sector-in-germany/) - Event by Unity Effect Official launch of Envisioning an Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship Sector in Germany: A Journey to Impact. On July 14, join SEND e.V., Google.org, media partners, funders, NGOs, and ecosystem networks for the official launch of Envisioning an Inclusive Social Entrepreneurship Sector in Germany: A Journey to Impact. This report, co-created between SEND and
- [A Well With/In](https://networkweaver.com/event/a-well-with-in/) - Register by Wednesday, May 21, 2025. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. In this moment — wherever and however you find yourself — we see you. Perhaps you’re swinging between: Anguish and Hope Overwhelm and Clarity Reactivity and Readiness Stuckness and Action Perhaps you’re carrying frustration, numbness, and all else that surfaces in the “falling
- [Working with Conflict](https://networkweaver.com/event/working-with-conflict/) - In this free interactive webinar, learn how to work through polarized positions, cultivate deeper levels of shared understanding, creativity and pathways forward in your collaborations. About This Opportunity Collaborations working for system change sometimes get stuck simply because people don’t agree. Maybe we don’t agree on the goal of the work, the analysis, what actions to
- [Workshopping the Worldview](https://networkweaver.com/event/workshopping-the-worldview-2/) - Workshopping the Worldview is a multi-day gathering in which participants are invited to connect to their radical visions. This 3-session workshop is an immersive, hands-on experience for leaders, organizers, and teams to see their work in relation to a worldview rooted in mutual care and collective thriving. It offers practical tools, real-world applications, and a space
- [Free Online Workshop: Building Trust & Psychological Safety in Teams](https://networkweaver.com/event/free-online-workshop-building-trust-psychological-safety-in-teams/) - Trust: the magic ingredient for empowered, collaborative and innovative teams. In fact, in a two year study on team performance at Google, researchers found that the most important factor which set successful teams apart was psychological safety: the belief that it’s safe to take risks, make mistakes and be vulnerable with peers. So how can
- [Relationships in Fundraising](https://networkweaver.com/event/relationships-in-fundraising/) - What role do relationships play in fundraising? How do you find and introduce yourself to donors? How do you develop meaningful relationships with all kinds of supporters? If you’ve been asking yourself these questions, we have just the event for you! Join our free webinar with expert fundraiser Kate Ferrie at 5 PM on Tuesday
- [Council of Water Beings: Honoring the Voices of Water](https://networkweaver.com/event/council-of-water-beings-honoring-the-voices-of-water/) - A Work That Reconnects Network Webinar with Emily Coralyne and Frieda Nixdorf Offered in celebration of the release of the documentary film Water is Love: Ripples of Regeneration, in this webinar Emily Coralyne and Frieda Nixdorf invite participants into a Council of Water Beings. A much-beloved practice of the Work That Reconnects, the Council of All Beings is
- [Mycelial Resilience: a WTR Network Webinar with Hector Aristizabal and Claudia González](https://networkweaver.com/event/mycelial-resilience-a-wtr-network-webinar-with-hector-aristizabal-and-claudia-gonzalez/) - In these times of increasing unraveling of the structures of Business As Usual we must come together in creative resilience – like mycelium moving beneath the soil, strengthening our connections, developing our skills and practicing mutual support, creativity and active care of Life. For over seven years, Hector Aristizabal and his colleagues at Fundación Re-Conectando
- [GreenMeets](https://networkweaver.com/event/greenmeets/) - GreenMeets aims to unite sustainability silos and hives worldwide to foster connections, share knowledge, and work towards a sustainable future for all beings. We believe the more connected we are, the louder our collective voice becomes. Please join us if you are working on: • Regenerative & Circular Economies • Sustainable or Regenerative Marketing •
- [Collective:  How to Build Community and Consensus](https://networkweaver.com/event/collective-how-to-build-community-and-consensus/) - COLLECTIVE LAUNCHES ON APRIL 17, 2025 Create the Future You Want to See With Community and Collaboration Whether in business or local communities, collaboration and consensus create stronger, smarter, and more resilient teams that achieve lasting success. You'll learn how to: Form a collaborative and work effectively with groups. Develop strong facilitation and consensus-building skills. Create a vision with a
- [Wisdom on Change Leadership Transitions 101](https://networkweaver.com/event/wisdom-on-change-leadership-transitions-101/) - Space for staff and managers navigating through organizational transition(s) to connect on the challenges of transitions and wisdom on change. Leadership Learning Community will also share learnings from our work with leadership transitions, resources, and worksheets. REGISTER HERE
- [Practicing Giving and Receiving Feedback](https://networkweaver.com/event/practicing-giving-and-receiving-feedback/) - Thank you for joining us. This session will be hosted by Ananda Valenzuela, in partnership with Resilience Initiative, and Leadership Learning Community. Learning Outcomes (1) Understand effective approaches to giving and receiving feedback (2) Access hands-on feedback tools to bring back to the workplace (3) Practice a real-life situation where you need to give challenging
- [The Leadership Cosmos: 25 Years of Expanding Possibilities](https://networkweaver.com/event/the-leadership-cosmos-25-years-of-expanding-possibilities/) - In an era of mounting challenges and transformation, how must leadership evolve to meet the urgency of our movements? We’re reflecting on Leadership Learning Community’s 25 years of learning, and holding the long arc of our movement and leadership work. Join us in conversation to expand our collective possibilities together. These virtual are designed for those who
- ["More Than a Phase" Webinar: Leadership, Care, & Innovation in Challenging Times](https://networkweaver.com/event/more-than-a-phase-webinar-leadership-care-innovation-in-challenging-times/) - How do we stay committed to our values, innovate in the midst of challenge, and care for ourselves and our people as we navigate a time of profound uncertainty and rapid change? Join Social Insights Research on Wednesday, April 2, 2025, from 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM ET for a timely panel discussion featuring organizational
- [Dialogue on Convening Systems: What does it take? What does it look like on the ground?](https://networkweaver.com/event/dialogue-on-convening-systems-what-does-it-take-what-does-it-look-like-on-the-ground/) - This is intended to be an exploratory, emergent dialogue in a fishbowl style (see link below). We'll invite a few guests who are experienced with convening systems on the ground to be in the inner circle of the fishbowl. They will share their experiences and explore what we know and don't know together. The 1-hour
- [Part Two - Building multiscalar networks: An interactive workshop](https://networkweaver.com/event/part-two-building-multiscalar-networks-an-interactive-workshop-with-network-of-networks-coordinators-avatar-for-network-coordination-commons-presented-by-network-coordination-commons-subscribe-hos/) - ​How can networks share and scale their work and learning? What happens when multiple vibrant networks swarm around a problem, as in disaster recovery? ​​Join Socialroots’ co-founder Ana Jamborcic, hosting our second conversation (see event summary from part one here) in this series on Multiscalar Networks with June Holley. June will be joined by Christy Shi Day, who
- [Liberating Structures Global Gathering 2025](https://networkweaver.com/event/liberating-structures-global-gathering-2025/) - Join us in Brussels for this unique gathering! Whether you're new to Liberating Structures or have been using them for years, this gathering offers you the chance to connect, collaborate, and co-create in ways beyond the ordinary conference format. Expect meaningful conversations, unexpected insights, and ample room for creativity. LEARN MORE AND REGISTER HERE
- [Network Leadership Series - April 2025](https://networkweaver.com/event/network-leadership-series-april-2025/) - The online series unfolds in weekly gatherings over 2 months, hosted by Circle Generation (previously offered by Converge). Co-facilitators Carri Munn, Elsa Henderson, and Nono Sekhoto bring diverse specialties in cultivating impact networks: collaborative learning, systems thinking, stakeholder engagement, and convening design and facilitation.
- [The Walking People Reading Circle](https://networkweaver.com/event/the-walking-people-reading-circle/) - In this Reading Circle, we will meet weekly (10 times) during the Spring Season, starting Wednesday, March 26th. Every week on Wednesday we will meet through zoom to share about the part we have all read. There will be weeks with fewer words and weeks with more words. We follow the roadmap offered to us
- [Free Online Workshop: Introduction to Regenerative Measurement & Evaluation](https://networkweaver.com/event/free-online-workshop-introduction-to-regenerative-measurement-evaluation/) - For us here at Unity Effect, the process of measurement and (impact) evaluation is based on curiosity, joint learning, sharing knowledge, and applying methodologies that capture human complexity. It is an empowering process that reveals hidden opportunities and resources, creates a deeper understanding of projects, and opens up scenarios for joint action. Yet, as most
- [Introduction to Collaborative Innovation](https://networkweaver.com/event/introduction-to-collaborative-innovation/) - An introduction to the key elements of Collaborative Innovation—a process model and set of tools that enable leaders to effectively lead impactful change with diverse stakeholders across different organizations and sectors
- [February WEAll Talk - "The Threads That Hold Us: Weaving as an Act of Resistance to Fragmentation"](https://networkweaver.com/event/february-weall-talk-the-threads-that-hold-us-weaving-as-an-act-of-resistance-to-fragmentation/) - Through weaving, we mend the torn threads of relationship, strengthening the fabric that binds us to place, each other, and the wider community of life.
- [Facilitating Collaborative Innovation](https://networkweaver.com/event/facilitating-collaborative-innovation-2/) - Step into the process of collaborative innovation with our immersive and highly experiential facilitation-focused workshop.
- [Facilitating Collaborative Innovation](https://networkweaver.com/event/facilitating-collaborative-innovation/) - Step into the process of collaborative innovation with our immersive and highly experiential facilitation-focused workshop.
- [WORKSHOPPING THE WORLDVIEW](https://networkweaver.com/event/workshopping-the-worldview/) - an immersive, hands-on experience for leaders, organizers, and teams to see their work in relation to a worldview rooted in mutual care and collective thriving.
- [Moving Through Chaos and Complexity: Network Weaving for Social Healing in Times of Great Change](https://networkweaver.com/event/moving-through-chaos-and-complexity-network-weaving-for-social-healing-in-times-of-great-change/) - Who Should Attend? This session is ideal for anyone interested in social change, healing and new ways of building stronger connections and trust, foster alignment, and/or catalyze collective and distributed action in the service of sustainability, equity and justice. Why This Matters Now As we find ourselves swimming in uncharted and unsettling times, we know
- [The Fito Failures Workshop!](https://networkweaver.com/event/the-fito-failures-workshop/) - We did it again—we failed! 🎉 Fito's 2nd Annual Failures Report has received such widespread appreciation that we decided: what better way to address our common network challenges than to invite great minds to problem-solve together? If you've ever struggled to get financial contributions, attract funders, engage new members, or decentralize your network – this event is
- [21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge](https://networkweaver.com/event/21-day-racial-equity-habit-building-challenge/) - Food Solutions New England will host it’s 11th annual 21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge from April 7, 2025 to April 27, 2025. REGISTER FOR THE REC TODAY Each year, thousands of individuals and hundreds of officially participating organizations join in a shared journey of learning and charting a course of action to dismantle racism in
- [HEALING-CENTERED SYSTEMS CHANGE JOURNEY: A COURSE BY THE COLLECTIVE CHANGE](https://networkweaver.com/event/healing-centered-systems-change-journey-a-course-by-the-collective-change/) - REGISTRATION FOR THIS COURSE INCLUDES ACCESS TO ALL 5 SESSIONS There is a movement toward healing and restoration underway across the world. We see this as a journey – first becoming trauma informed to see where and how trauma impacts our systems, and then moving to becoming healing orientated, building the capacities for healing-centered work.
- [Workshop: Facilitating Collaborative Meetings](https://networkweaver.com/event/workshop-facilitating-collaborative-meetings/) - Workshop Dates and Times: Day 1: Tuesday, February 11, 2025. 1pm – 4:00pm ET (US & Canada) Day 2: Wednesday, February 12, 2025. 1pm – 4:00pm ET (US & Canada) ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP Engaging in collaborative work involves a lot of multi-stakeholder meetings. These meetings are critical for building relationships, sustaining momentum, maintaining accountability between

## Series

- [Mending the Arc: Art + Storytelling Orientation](https://networkweaver.com/series/mending-the-arc-art-storytelling-orientation/)
- [This is How WeGovern: An Applied Learning Space](https://networkweaver.com/series/this-is-how-wegovern-an-applied-learning-space/)
- [Story, Narrative and Systems Learning & Practice Series](https://networkweaver.com/series/story-narrative-and-systems-learning-practice-series/)
- [LLC BIPOC Affinity Group](https://networkweaver.com/series/llc-bipoc-affinity-group/) - This Affinity Group is a space for leaders to connect, share learning, and engage in collective healing.

## Categories

- [Uncategorized](https://networkweaver.com/category/uncategorized/)
- [Collective Liberation | Racial Equity | Racial Justice](https://networkweaver.com/category/collective-liberation-racial-equity-racial-justice/)
- [Environmental Justice and Climate Action](https://networkweaver.com/category/environmental-justice-and-climate-action/)
- [Network Leadership](https://networkweaver.com/category/network-leadership/)
- [Network Funding](https://networkweaver.com/category/network-funding/)
- [Network Mapping](https://networkweaver.com/category/network-mapping/)
- [Network Building, Training, and Weaving](https://networkweaver.com/category/network-building-training-and-weaving/)
- [Systems Change & Social Impact](https://networkweaver.com/category/systems-change-social-impact/)
- [Other](https://networkweaver.com/category/other/)
- [Family Constellations](https://networkweaver.com/category/family-constellations/)

## Tags

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- [Systems Change](https://networkweaver.com/tag/systems-change/)
- [Transformation](https://networkweaver.com/tag/transformation/)
- [networks](https://networkweaver.com/tag/networks/)
- [Governance](https://networkweaver.com/tag/governance/)
- [Liberatory](https://networkweaver.com/tag/liberatory/)
- [equity](https://networkweaver.com/tag/equity/)
- [Self Organizing](https://networkweaver.com/tag/self-organizing-2/)
- [Social Justice](https://networkweaver.com/tag/social-justice/)
- [trust](https://networkweaver.com/tag/trust/)
- [philanthropy](https://networkweaver.com/tag/philanthropy/)
- [leadership](https://networkweaver.com/tag/leadership/)
- [network weaving](https://networkweaver.com/tag/network-weaving/)
- [Community](https://networkweaver.com/tag/community/)
- [Weaving](https://networkweaver.com/tag/weaving/)
- [workplace](https://networkweaver.com/tag/workplace/)
- [Reframing Power](https://networkweaver.com/tag/reframing-power/)
- [Immigrants](https://networkweaver.com/tag/immigrants/)
- [Liberatory Networks](https://networkweaver.com/tag/liberatory-networks/)
- [Play](https://networkweaver.com/tag/play/)
- [Wellbeing](https://networkweaver.com/tag/wellbeing/)
- [NetworkStrategy](https://networkweaver.com/tag/networkstrategy/)
- [Reflection](https://networkweaver.com/tag/reflection/)
- [Self Care](https://networkweaver.com/tag/self-care/)
- [Complexity](https://networkweaver.com/tag/complexity/)
- [networkweaving](https://networkweaver.com/tag/networkweaving/)
- [racial equity](https://networkweaver.com/tag/racial-equity/)
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- [RacialEquity](https://networkweaver.com/tag/racialequity/)
- [SocialJustice](https://networkweaver.com/tag/socialjustice/)
- [social change](https://networkweaver.com/tag/social-change/)
- [Strategy](https://networkweaver.com/tag/strategy/)
- [Decentralized Leadership](https://networkweaver.com/tag/decentralized-leadership/)
- [Art](https://networkweaver.com/tag/art/)
- [funding](https://networkweaver.com/tag/funding/)
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- [Collective](https://networkweaver.com/tag/collective/)
- [Balance](https://networkweaver.com/tag/balance/)
- [Love](https://networkweaver.com/tag/love/)
- [Outreach](https://networkweaver.com/tag/outreach/)
- [Emergence](https://networkweaver.com/tag/emergence/)
- [Learning Networks](https://networkweaver.com/tag/learning-networks/)
- [Racial Justice](https://networkweaver.com/tag/racial-justice/)
- [African](https://networkweaver.com/tag/african/)
- [African Changemakers Network](https://networkweaver.com/tag/african-changemakers-network/)
- [Dennis Akin](https://networkweaver.com/tag/dennis-akin/)
- [Indidgenous](https://networkweaver.com/tag/indidgenous/)
- [Relationship](https://networkweaver.com/tag/relationship/)
- [Reproductive Justice](https://networkweaver.com/tag/reproductive-justice/)
- [Network Mapping](https://networkweaver.com/tag/network-mapping/)
- [Peace Building](https://networkweaver.com/tag/peace-building/)
- [Free Palestine](https://networkweaver.com/tag/free-palestine/)
- [conflict resolution](https://networkweaver.com/tag/conflict-resolution/)
- [network leadership](https://networkweaver.com/tag/network-leadership/)
- [regenerative practice](https://networkweaver.com/tag/regenerative-practice/)
- [Liberatory learning](https://networkweaver.com/tag/liberatory-learning/)
- [socialchange](https://networkweaver.com/tag/socialchange/)
- [collaborative](https://networkweaver.com/tag/collaborative/)
- [Food Security](https://networkweaver.com/tag/food-security/)
- [Network Building](https://networkweaver.com/tag/network-building/)
- [Liberation](https://networkweaver.com/tag/liberation/)
- [Race Equity Culture](https://networkweaver.com/tag/race-equity-culture/)
- [NetworkWeaver](https://networkweaver.com/tag/networkweaver/)
- [Learning](https://networkweaver.com/tag/learning/)
- [WomenChangemakers](https://networkweaver.com/tag/womenchangemakers/)
- [Conservation](https://networkweaver.com/tag/conservation/)
- [Environmental Justice](https://networkweaver.com/tag/environmental-justice/)
- [Relationships](https://networkweaver.com/tag/relationships/)
- [Care-holder](https://networkweaver.com/tag/care-holder/)
- [Community Philanthropy](https://networkweaver.com/tag/community-philanthropy/)
- [Indigenous Ancestral Practices](https://networkweaver.com/tag/indigenous-ancestral-practices/)
- [Oaxaca](https://networkweaver.com/tag/oaxaca/)
- [Reciprocal Assistance](https://networkweaver.com/tag/reciprocal-assistance/)
- [Collaborative Leadership](https://networkweaver.com/tag/collaborative-leadership/)
- [Systems Thinking](https://networkweaver.com/tag/systems-thinking/)
- [Care](https://networkweaver.com/tag/care/)
- [Systems Capital](https://networkweaver.com/tag/systems-capital/)
- [Love In action](https://networkweaver.com/tag/love-in-action/)
- [Food System](https://networkweaver.com/tag/food-system/)
- [BIPOC](https://networkweaver.com/tag/bipoc/)
- [Weaver of Color](https://networkweaver.com/tag/weaver-of-color/)
- [Liberatory practice](https://networkweaver.com/tag/liberatory-practice/)
- [BLACKLIVESMATTER](https://networkweaver.com/tag/blacklivesmatter/)
- [MeToo](https://networkweaver.com/tag/metoo/)
- [BelieveSurvivors](https://networkweaver.com/tag/believesurvivors/)
- [BelieveWomen](https://networkweaver.com/tag/believewomen/)
- [ConfirmKavanaughNow](https://networkweaver.com/tag/confirmkavanaughnow/)
- [cosby](https://networkweaver.com/tag/cosby/)
- [defendourboys](https://networkweaver.com/tag/defendourboys/)
- [feminism](https://networkweaver.com/tag/feminism/)
- [HimToo](https://networkweaver.com/tag/himtoo/)
- [kavanaugh](https://networkweaver.com/tag/kavanaugh/)
- [maleprivilege](https://networkweaver.com/tag/maleprivilege/)
- [MenToo](https://networkweaver.com/tag/mentoo/)
- [MeTooMvmt](https://networkweaver.com/tag/metoomvmt/)
- [privilege](https://networkweaver.com/tag/privilege/)
- [StopKavanaugh](https://networkweaver.com/tag/stopkavanaugh/)
- [SurvivorCulture](https://networkweaver.com/tag/survivorculture/)
- [webelievesurvivors](https://networkweaver.com/tag/webelievesurvivors/)
- [WhyIDidntReport](https://networkweaver.com/tag/whyididntreport/)
- [world](https://networkweaver.com/tag/world/)
- [Offers](https://networkweaver.com/tag/offers/)
- [Request](https://networkweaver.com/tag/request/)
- [brave questions](https://networkweaver.com/tag/brave-questions/)
- [Mala Nagarajan](https://networkweaver.com/tag/mala-nagarajan/)
- [pay](https://networkweaver.com/tag/pay/)
- [recalculating pay](https://networkweaver.com/tag/recalculating-pay/)
- [Richael Faithful](https://networkweaver.com/tag/richael-faithful/)
- [Liberatory Structures](https://networkweaver.com/tag/liberatory-structures/)
- [Sociocracy](https://networkweaver.com/tag/sociocracy/)
- [Communication](https://networkweaver.com/tag/communication/)
- [SelfOrganizing](https://networkweaver.com/tag/selforganizing/)
- [Radical uncertainty](https://networkweaver.com/tag/radical-uncertainty/)
- [Regenerative Future](https://networkweaver.com/tag/regenerative-future/)
- [resilience](https://networkweaver.com/tag/resilience/)
- [Impact](https://networkweaver.com/tag/impact/)
- [Systemic Change](https://networkweaver.com/tag/systemic-change/)
- [Network Value](https://networkweaver.com/tag/network-value/)
- [Hope](https://networkweaver.com/tag/hope/)
- [Ukraine](https://networkweaver.com/tag/ukraine/)
- [War in Ukraine](https://networkweaver.com/tag/war-in-ukraine/)

## Consultants Categories

- [Collective Liberation / Racial Equity / Racial Justice](https://networkweaver.com/consultant_categories/collective-liberation-racial-equity-and-racial-justice/)
- [Environmental Justice and Climate Action](https://networkweaver.com/consultant_categories/environmental-justice-and-climate-action/)
- [Network Leadership](https://networkweaver.com/consultant_categories/network-leadership/)
- [Network Funding](https://networkweaver.com/consultant_categories/network-funding/)
- [Network Mapping](https://networkweaver.com/consultant_categories/network-mapping/)
- [Network Building / Training / Weaving](https://networkweaver.com/consultant_categories/network-building-training-and-weaving/)
- [Systems Change and Social Impact](https://networkweaver.com/consultant_categories/systems-change-social-impact/)
- [Other](https://networkweaver.com/consultant_categories/other/)

## Categories Resources

- [Collective Liberation | Racial Equity | Racial Justice](https://networkweaver.com/categories_resources/collective-liberation-racial-equity-racial-justice/)
- [Fostering Connection & Communication](https://networkweaver.com/categories_resources/fostering-connection-communication/)
- [Network Surveys & Mapping](https://networkweaver.com/categories_resources/network-surveys-mapping/)
- [Network Weaving Books](https://networkweaver.com/categories_resources/network-weaving-books/)
- [Non-English materials](https://networkweaver.com/categories_resources/non-english-materials/)
- [Systems Change & Social Impact](https://networkweaver.com/categories_resources/systems-change-social-impact/)
- [Other](https://networkweaver.com/categories_resources/other/)
- [Network Building | Training | Weaving](https://networkweaver.com/categories_resources/network-building-training-weaving/)

## Portfolio Categories

- [Adv](https://networkweaver.com/portfolio_cat/adv/) - This is a custom category page for Adv
- [Branding](https://networkweaver.com/portfolio_cat/branding/) - This is a custom category page for Branding
- [Design](https://networkweaver.com/portfolio_cat/design/) - This is a custom category page for Design
- [Photo](https://networkweaver.com/portfolio_cat/photo/) - This is a custom category page for Photo
- [Web](https://networkweaver.com/portfolio_cat/web/) - This is a custom category page for Web