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)...
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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...
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January 22, 2021 – Over the past couple of years, I’ve worked with a state-wide health equity network, comprised of smaller coalitions, that has been looking at living into being more of a network in thinking and action. After some conversation and consideration, we...
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December 4, 2020 – I am struck by how the network building and weaving field has really mushroomed over the past several years, and with it, so much learning around approaches, structures, roles, strategy, etc. I regularly hear myself say that there is no...
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April 29, 2020 – Currently engaged in a number of state-wide and regional network-building initiatives focused on food, health and education system change, I am beginning to see some interesting patterns across efforts to build connectivity-based and more fluid movements for change. Watching these...
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April 20, 2020 – “New paths of flow are needed for new patterns of organization that are resilient.” – Sally J. Goerner, Robert G. Dyck, Dorothy Lagerroos, The New Science of Sustainability This post builds on a post from a couple of weeks ago,...
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February 20, 2020 – “Thinking in terms of networks can enable us to see with new eyes.” – Harold Jarche A couple of years ago I teamed up with Bruce Hoppe, a very skillful and savvy network mapper, to do a network capacity building...
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December 2, 2019 – A couple of months ago we had a meeting of the Food Solutions New England Network’s Process Team, and we spent part of our time checking in around our perceptions of where the network is heading in its next stage...
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January 7, 2019 – “That which counts, can rarely be counted.” -Albert Einstein In a couple of articles that have been re-cycling in different social circles, the reminder is offered that tipping points for social change do not need anywhere close to a majority of actors....
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December 17, 2018 – As I was just starting work at IISC, back in 2005, our founding Executive Director Marianne Hughes, introduced the staff to the work of John Paul Lederach, and specifically his book The Moral Imagination. As I recall, she did this...
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May 24, 2018 – “We never know how our small activities will affect others through the invisible fabric of our connectedness. In this exquisitely connected world, it’s never a question of ‘critical mass.’ It’s always about critical connections.” Grace Lee Boggs As referenced in...
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May 22, 2018 – Connection is a social determinant of health. Last week I participated in the Network Leadership Training Academy hosted by the University of Colorado at Denver’s Center on Network Science. It was wonderful to meet fellow network geeks and enthusiasts...
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