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A voice from the edge (fund)
The Edge Fund has just completed its first round of funding – supporting 28 grassroots groups. Here’s a quick interview with Joe, one of the Edge Fund community: What’s the vision of The Edge Fund? Our long term goal is to achieve systemic social change. This is not an easy task and will have to […]
CounterAct
A new resource for activists in Australia is now up and running – CounterAct is “a new project launched to support communities in taking effective, creative, strategic nonviolent direct action on issues of environmental and social justice.” We look forward to learning from them and collaborating wherever possible!
Facilitating Change: Changing Facilitation?
On Thursday I got an early train to Manchester to meet with Adam, Kathryn and Lucy – my ‘Facilitating Change’ co-facilitators before travelling to Wales together the following day. On Monday evening I got the train back from the event – a little battered and bruised from the experience, oddly exhilarated too, and very tired. […]
Common values, Common Cause
I spent a stimulating day at the Common Cause Assembly in London on Friday discussing the case for working with values and what this might mean in practice. Common Cause is an initiative led by the Public Interest Research Centre that grew out of a report published by a coalition of NGOs in 2010 that makes the […]
Facilitating Change
Tomorrow I head to Manchester to meet up with my 3 co-facilitators for the Facilitating Change event. Facilitating Change is an exploration of the values that underpin and support effective facilitation. It’s an antidote to the view of facilitation that’s all “tools and techniques”. For a while the event had a nickname – a working […]
Funding from the edge to the edge
We’ve mentioned the Edge Fund before. Time to mention them again as their second funding round has just opened and decisions will very soon be taken as to who gets what from their first round – in fact the decision will be taken on Saturday. So who are the Edge Fund and what do they […]
Expert and expertise
I’m wary of the role of expert. It has connotations of power over a group. And let’s be honest there’s a part of my ego that would love to fill the role of expert for the affirmation it might bring. Expertise I’m more comfortable with – it’s just a statement of competence. The feedback from […]
Consensus: on being right
Perry like’s stories and uses them to great effect in his facilitation and training. We co-facilitated this past weekend and decided the time had come to post some of them on the blog. So from time to time we’ll add a story or saying that offers insight into the process of coming to consensus. Here’s […]
Confidence, community, consolidation…..and cop-outs
It’s been a busy week. The last 8 days have seen me working with Hannah co-facilitating a days training for Greenpeace volunteer Greenspeakers – building their skills and confidence in their role as public speakers. A few days later I spent an afternoon with Warwick University students helping them prepare for nonviolent direct action on […]