Weaving Together a World Without Violence – Medicine Cards
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 the world differently.
Co-created by…
Leverage Point Identification
The idea behind the identification of leverage points is the assumption that working in some areas can be more productive than others. 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.
by June Holley Download
The idea behind the identification of leverage…
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 in…
BIPOC Editorial Series 2024-2025
We are so excited for this year’s 2024 - 2025 BIPOC Editorial series. In its fourth year, Network Weaver’s BIPOC Editorial series continues to amplify the voices of BIPOC network weavers, connectors, leaders, and mappers and invites community workers, builders, carers, and anyone reimagining network leadership practices through a lens of liberation to write us into the future.
We…
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 was there. It was…
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 a time…
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 "Pedagogy of the Oppressed,"…
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 root. I thought immediately (ha!) of those…
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 bend…
Working Across Difference: Building accountability & learning infrastructure
by Tatiana Fraser
At The Systems Sanctuary our approach to teaching systems practice is rooted in practical experience. We come to systems change work as practitioners first. We are experienced, but are also ever-evolving, network builders and systems entrepreneurs.
Our journey began by hosting intimate learning spaces for systems leaders globally, spaces that we wish had been…