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…
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…
Working Across Difference: Building accountability & learning infrastructure
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
People Stitching Earth | Oppression, Healing, Liberation, and Navigating the Terrain In Between
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…
On Collective Liberation and Natural Networks: an Interview with LLC’s 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…
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…