Network Weaving as “Light Work”
May 20, 2025 –
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Network Weaving as “Light Work”
May 20, 2025 – “The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love — whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other’s light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in those... Read More
Moving Through Chaos and Complexity: Network Weaving for Social Healing in Times of Great Change
February 11, 2025 – As we find ourselves swimming in uncharted and unsettling times, we know that we need each other and must work together in new and deeply collaborative ways. We are all problem-solving day-to-day and facing many critical decisions related to our... Read More
Network Weaving for Equitable Wellbeing (Part 2)
December 1, 2022 – This post is a continuation of the one that appeared earlier this week (Tuesday, November 29th), and together both form an extended article that was written for participants of this month’s Wellbeing Summit, hosted by the Full Frame Initiative. What... Read More
Network Weaving for Equitable Wellbeing (Part 1)
November 29, 2022 – The following post was written for those who will be attending the Full Frame Initiative’s (FFI) Wellbeing Summit in Charlotte, North Carolina December 11-14. The Interaction Institute for Social Change has been supporting FFI staff and signers of the Wellbeing... Read More
Prompting Network Weaving: “Questions? Comments? Connections?”
November 19, 2021 – “Movements are born of critical connections rather than critical mass.” ― Grace Lee Boggs Sometimes the small moves and tweaks we make can create significant change and opportunity. We are definitely being reminded of this as we facilitate this year’s Food... Read More
Weave Back Better: Investing in Network Weaving as Part of Core Infrastructure
September 13, 2021 – I was recently in conversation about the creation of a systems change programmatic offering for funders and nonprofit leaders, and as the discussion turned to the “once in a generation” billions of dollars investment from the US federal government into... Read More
Network Weaving in a Time of Breaking, Unraveling and Hunkering Down
September 27, 2020 – For the past month I’ve been checking in with a dozen or so networks that I support and participate in in various ways, looking at how best to navigate these times when in some cases it feels there may be... Read More
Leadership as Network Weaving
July 15, 2014 – Networkweaving – Creating Stronger Communities from Deborah McLaren Thanks to Deborah McLaren for putting this slide show together that references the good work of June Holley, Chris Brogan, and Beth Kanter. I find that there are many people out there... Read More
Lessons From 12 Years of Weaving a Regional Network for Better Food Futures
February 2, 2024 – Recently a colleague and I were invited to present to partners in Mississippi about what we have learned over a dozen years of creating a network in New England dedicated to advancing a just, sustainable, democratic and collaborative regional food... Read More
“Lean Weaving”: Creating Networks for a Future of Resilience and Regeneration
October 17, 2020 – I’m fInishing up David Fleming’s book Surviving the Future, and buzzing with ideas and questions about the role of networks, network weaving and energy network science in these times of “systemic release” (see the adaptive cycle above, and more about... Read More
Why Invest in Networks Now?
June 3, 2025 – “Some live by love thy neighbor as thyself,others by first do no harm or take no morethan you need. What if the mightiest word is love?Love beyond marital, filial, national,love that casts a widening pool of light,love with no need to pre-empt grievance.In... Read More