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 challenges…
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Imagining Liberation
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…
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Changing the System by Fire
It takes a villageLast 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 world.Phoebe…
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To support Network effectiveness and Network Leaders
In 2019 – 2020, COPE Scotland joined a 9-month Network Weaving learning series offered by the Q Community for health and care leadership in the UK and Ireland. Facilitated by…
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On Remedy and Redress as Network Principles
“I am trying to shape my despair into some form of action, but for now, I am standingon the cold edge of grief”– Terry Tempest Williams, “Erosion: Essays of Undoing”Once in…
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Equity May Not Be So Deep, Even If It Isn’t Easy: 10 Things You Can Actually Do Sooner Than Later
I’m wrapping up some work with a network focused on just and sustainable food systems, and based on work we have done and conversation we have had to date on…
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Governance Dilemmas — Boundary Conditions for Navigating Networked Peacebuilding
As actors engaged in peacebuilding and social change, we often find ourselves grappling with complex dynamics while facilitating the establishment of effective governance systems. Three recurring themes, or dilemmas, have…
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Through the portal we go; mapping for the new world
Dense community networks bring resilience, equality and agency to our places: how we’re mapping and exploring social capital to test and develop these hypothesesStrong communities are made up of rich…
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Changing the Conversation Around Reproductive Justice
“Reproductive justice” was first coined in 1994 by the Women of African Descent for Reproductive Justice and defined in 1997 by Sister Song (a formal outgrowth of that group) as “the human…
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The magic of finding my peers of relationship-centred practitioners
In briefOn the 23rd November 2022, 80 relationship-centred practitioners came together at Northumbria University to unpack the how, what and why of relationship-centred practice. Relationships Project shared some of our…
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