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. She was…
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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…
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Receiving Love and Care: A Liberatory Practice
“It’s not possible to let love and care flow freely and sustainably to others, or to engage—from the level of one’s very being—in equitable, love-based system change if there are…
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Responding across the system
We need to address the complexity gap in climate responses.To tackle complex challenges, we know we need to go from disjointed isolated responses, to coordinated multi-point strategies – or from…
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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 & ForesightIn 2024, Circle Generation, School of Systems Change, and School of…
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Unraveling, Dis-Integration, and Fluttery Feelings: The Lesser Told Parts of the “Transformation Story”
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 attention differently and to different things. One particular area…
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Network mapping: Visualizing stakeholders in the global food system
A Kumu use case by Maria Balcazar Tellez & Alexis Rife of Meridian Institute.Nothing gets us more excited than seeing the endless number of ways in which our customers are…
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Design Foundations For Systems Capital
Designing an investment approach that fosters systems innovation and transformationThis piece was published in August 2022 in partnership with Hatched and reflects our thinking at this time.What would it look like to…
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Uncolonizing the 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…
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Who Cares?
This piece is the first article in the Care series, a collaboration between System sanctuary and Turtle Island InstituteCare is a theme that has come up over and over again…
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