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. …
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Takeaways from a series of co-creation workshops In March 2023, Collective Mind launched the results of a major participatory research study on donor funding to networks. As a follow-up to this…
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The School of System Change exists to nurture a systemic, living paradigm, where learning is change. Learning is not the transactional, linear process of acquiring institutionalised knowledge; it’s the process of…
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The following content is a 2-post contribution from Curtis Ogden, originally published at Interaction Institute for Social Change Lessons From 12 Years of Weaving a Regional Network for Better Food…
Continue ReadingEvolving Strategy in Complexity: For organizations who are overwhelmed, over-processing, and still need a coordinated plan to win
When adrienne maree brown shared her invitation for “less prep, more presence” in Emergent Strategy, I was one of the people who really needed to hear that to unlearn some long-time…
Continue ReadingFrom Theory to Practice: Embodying Collective Governance with Resonance Network
This post, written by Resonance Network’s Kassamira Carter-Howard and Yesenia Veamatahau, originally appeared on Education Reimagined’s blog here and The Reverb here. “A lattice is a repeating, interlaced structure that is…
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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….
Continue ReadingMeasurement as a regenerative practice
All our current global challenges can basically be traced back to one underlying paradigm or myth: That we are separate from others and the world. When we try to address…
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The Changemaker Authors Cohort, a partnership with the Unicorn Authors Club, is a new, yearlong intensive coaching program supporting full-time movement activists and social justice practitioners to complete books that create…
Continue ReadingChanging the System by Fire
It takes a village Last week, I interviewed Phoebe Tickell on imagination activism and the space between having solutions at hand and deploying them in the right way to build a better…
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