Dwight Towers has been envisioning more participatory formats for events s/he’s attended. The latest reads well and suggests some easily achievable tweaks to the usual ‘sage on the stage’/ ‘chalk and talk’ events we still attend and invite others to attend. We’d love to hear your forays into formats new. What worked? What obstacles (internal […]
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The Beginners Guide to Consent
The following came round an email list I lurk on, so I visited the website and am very glad I did so. Take a look yourselves. I’d redcommend the interview with Oxford based activist and facilitator Clare Cochrane. Any way back to the main business of this post: “The Beginners Guide to Consent is a […]
Rhizome reviewed – "Decisions, decisions, decisions"
We usually invite those we work with to write a post for this blog. They don’t always find the time. But the folk at Hackney Cohousing Project have reflected on the work Perry and I did with them back in March on their own blog. I’ve pasted it below for ease: “As an informal group […]
Is your organisation agile?
We’ve mentioned Holacracy a few times of late and explored how it relates to formal consensus decision-making because Rhizome’s Nick Osborne has been exploring it in-depth. He’s now offering a series of one day introductions to Holacracy through Agile Organisation.Over the next 18 months workshops will take place around the UK and Ireland in such […]
A Facilitator in Conflict
Conflict. It sees to be the thread that’s connecting most of the work I’ve done this year so far. I seem to be naturally adept at getting into conflict. Less so at getting back out of it. So facilitating conflict has always been something I’ve simultaneously been anxious about, and something I’ve been keen to […]
Exploring Shared Values
Craig Freshley’s latest Good Group Tip popped into my inbox this morning. As ever, a useful reminder of what makes a good group. This time Craig talks about shared values – something we also talk about from time to time. He says: In principle, values are those things most important to us, the things we value. […]
Consensus Handbook
Our friends at Seeds for Change have compiled their excellent briefings on consensus decision-making into one place – a new book on consensus and facilitation: A Consensus Handbook – Co-operative decision-making for activists, co-ops and communities Here’s what they say about it: After decades of facilitating, years of planning, months of hard work and days […]
Sustaining Resistance, 2013
Tools for Effective-Sustainable Activism,12-20 October 2013, Catalan Pyrenees !! Deadline to apply for fully funded places, including travel: 20 April 2013 !! This residential training, hosted in a wild part of the Catalan Pyrenees, offers personal and collective tools to make our activism more effective. Sustaining Resistance helps us: stay in it for the long […]
Campaign Bootcamp
Campaign Bootcamp is a week-long training programme for young campaigners. They’re looking for young people who care about social change, want skills training, mentoring and are ready to work hard. The first Campaign Bootcamp will run from 16th-21st June about 30 minutes outside of London. For more info and full application details -check out the […]