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…
Knowledge Sharing for Collective Growth
June Holley, international network weaving consultant for over 40 years, shared her wisdom and expertise in an interview with Lorenz Sell on Knowledge Sharing for Collective Growth at this year’s…
Liberatory Governance… and belonging
How do we organize ourselves… in a world where everyone belongs?Of the many barriers to living into a world where everyone belongs, this question feels fundamental: how do we organize…
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…
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…
Businesses without Bosses: from hard-nosed leadership to sustainable, self-managing systems
As many of you know, I’m very passionate about helping people understand and experiment with self-organizing. Joella Bruckshaw and Julian Saipe are executive coaches who have a wonderful podcast series called ‘Behind…
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…
Enliven Social Ecosystems
Connecting the Dots for System Change— The first global gatheringof movement builders, network weavers, and social ecosystem catalyststo connect and practice meaning-making and choice-making together —12-Sept-202103.00pm – 06.00pm (London time)10.00am…
ORGANIZE IN CHANGING THE WORLD TOGETHER
Join June Holley and Ari Sahagún on September 8th to explore and help co-design Acter, a platform specifically designed for and with networks (and networks of networks) working on social change. During the session you will…
Organize in Changing the World Together
Are you tired of Slack and Facebook? Have a discussion space like Mighty Networks but no one comes? Want to support network weaving or self-organizing, but the tools fail you?Then…