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Why Weave Networks Now?

March 10, 2025 – “Connections create value. The social era will reward those organizations that realize they don’t create value all by themselves. If the industrial era was about building things, the social era is about connecting people, ideas and things.” -Nilofer Merchant (entrepreneur,... Read More

Getting to the Goods (and Beyond “Folded Arms” Syndrome) in Impact Networks

July 13, 2022 – “Your generosity is more important than your perfection.” Seth Godin Over the past 20 years of working with a variety of social change networks, I have observed a common dynamic surface after the initial enthusiasm and launch phase. As happened... Read More

The Power of Networks, In So Many Words

November 5, 2021 – Getting ready to host a session for the Connecticut Food System Alliance (CFSA) focused on “rethinking networks,” I am playing with a list of curated quotes from various people, which all have something to do with networks, connection and interrelatedness.... Read More

A Poetic Ecology of Networks: Moving From “It” and “So That” to “Us” and “As”

June 6, 2021 – Networks are fundamental to life, to liveliness and to livelihood. There is growing recognition of this fact. And at the same time, the frame through which one views networks has a lot to say about how one might be living... Read More

Networks as the (Regenerative) Innovation

March 23, 2021 – “We must create civilization(s) for equitable human wellbeing within a healthy biosphere. Since our thinking produced self-inflicted existential threats, the main challenge is to find a practical way to reconcile our thinking with the logic of life.” – all-women Emerging New Civilization(s)... Read More

Thinking Like an Octopus (and With a Collaborative Heart): Evolving and Interlocking Networks

February 11, 2021 – “You’ve got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it.” Toni Morrison A network that I have been a part of for a number of years is seeing... 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

Cultivating Regenerative Capacity In and Through Networks

September 18, 2020 – A couple of months ago I was invited by Visible Network Labs to give a presentation to the Network Leadership Training Academy on regenerative networks. This was of course done virtually, and I was already wanting to not simply present... Read More

How are you living into love, equity, and networks in this time of COVID-19?

March 17, 2020 –

Networks for Social Change: A Love Story

February 19, 2019 – The following post was originally published in 2014, and has been edited. In many ways it feels even more relevant five years later … Over the past dozen years or so at IISC (our half-life as an organization, and my whole life as a... Read More

Connection is Fundamental: Networks for Life, Learning and Livelihood

March 10, 2018 – “Relationship is the fundamental truth of this world of appearance.” -Rabindranath Tagore The following is a segment from the first post in a series focused on network theory and its actual and potential applications to education and learning. This series... Read More

Power, Networks, and Love on the LGBTQ Leadership Stage

January 31, 2018 – Power. Networks. Love. These three aspects of the IISC’s Collaborative Change Lens were not the official theme of the Victory Institute’s 2017 International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Leaders Conference, but they were woven throughout everything that happened... Read More

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