It takes a body My interview with artist Maggie Roberts covered perspective, vision, AI, bias, resistance, extraction, the bravery of imagination, and the role of art in a crisis. The conversation was…
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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 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…
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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…
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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…
Continue ReadingOn 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…
Continue ReadingGovernance 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…
Continue ReadingChanging 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…
Continue ReadingThe magic of finding my peers of relationship-centred practitioners
In brief On 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…
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