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 networks, shown in the drawing…
Network Governance
by June Holley
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. This shift has the potential to massively increase participation and inclusion in policy making and, at the same time, ensure that policy making becomes more innovative, experimental, and…
What Is Self Organizing?
by June Holley
Self-organizing is perhaps the most important and least understood aspect of System Shifting Networks.
There are many scientific definitions of self-organizing but they are hard to wade through. After 20 years of helping networks self-organize, I’ve created a definition that is very concrete and practical for getting started with self-organizing.
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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,…
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…
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 we are, what we have and what we want. At a larger scale, the dynamics we have…
How Leadership Can Make A Difference as We Fight Back and Fight Forward!
by Deborah Meehan
Spoiler Alert: This post is about why and how network strategies can help leaders “Fight Back and Fight Forward,” a phrase taken from john powell describing the need to protect decades of hard won gains while shaping the future we want (not just a return to the status quo). I believe passionately that we all need to take action right now, and that networks are an…
Signals from the Web
by Jen
This post is part of Listening Practices — a series exploring how we attune to the subtle, often unseen signals within systems, relationships, and ourselves. These reflections centre the art of deep listening as a tool for connection, discernment, and care. Over the past couple of months, I have had the pleasure of connecting with some brilliant minds to talk about our journeys,…
The Sanctuary Series
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 Download This Sanctuary Series amplifies emerging and fresh voices in systems change and women-…
Creating as Life: A Regenerative Rebellion for Our Times
by Sydney Searchwell-Simpson
Part of my creative practice as an artist and a devotee to Life is to let go of the ideas I hold within me that separate me from the whole, so I can drop into an effortless beingness shared with the Earth from which our bodies stem.
It is here that I untether myself from one of the most important myths humanity must unravel to move through and beyond the…