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Networks, Return-On-Investment and Co-Creation

January 24, 2018 – “The most robust and resilient networks are those that create additional value for each participant while strengthening a community or ecosystem as a whole.” – Adam Pattantyus Return-on-investment (ROI) is not a term that I love, especially given how militantly... Read More

3 Mantras + 3 Small Moves for Advancing Networks

December 4, 2017 – “Emergence notices the way small actions and connections create complex systems, patterns that become ecosystems and societies.” -Adrienne Maree Brown, Emergent Strategy A couple of weeks ago I was in Michigan to do a presentation and discussion with representatives from a... Read More

Networks, Collective Impact and Waking Up to Whiteness

August 23, 2016 – “Processes aimed at racial equity change can overlook the privileged side of inequity.” -Gita Gulati-Partee and Maggie Potapchuk, “Paying Attention to White Culture and Privilege: A Missing Link to Advancing Racial Equity” In numerous social change networks that we support at IISC,... Read More

Networks for Social Change: Living as Relating

August 17, 2016 – Networks, or webs, are core to living systems. Thinking and looking through a network lens can help people to understand the patterns and quality of connection that either make life possible and enable liveliness or threaten life and livelihood. Chilean biologists Humberto Maturana and Francisco... Read More

Human Factors in Regenerative Networks

June 7, 2016 – re·gen·er·a·tion rəˌjenəˈrāSH(ə)n/ Renewal, revival, restoration; spiritual transformation; an aspect of living systems without which there would be no life; a process through which whole new organisms may be created from fractions of organisms; an adaptive and evolutionary trait that plays... Read More

Creating Space: Resilience and Healthy Networks

May 31, 2016 – Last week I attended another meeting of the Research Alliance for Regenerative Economics (RARE) and we deepened our conversation about a “regenerative framework” for guiding system change. Underlying our conversations is the premise that many living systems – ecological, economic,... Read More

Networks: Redefining Who and What Matters

May 3, 2016 – Part of the underlying and deeper change potential of taking a network approach is the notion that we lead with contribution before credential. This means being open to the idea, for example, that a 15-year-old high schooler or home schooler... Read More

Networks for Change: Growing Gratefulness and Belonging

February 4, 2016 – “Grateful living brings in place of greed: sharing; in place of oppression: respect; in place of violence: peace. Who does not long for a world of sharing, mutual respect, and peace?” –Brother David Steindl Rast The following is a slightly... Read More