In our last post on consensus we talked about near-consensus alternatives. Here’s the first in a series of posts that explore near-consensus alternatives. By near-consensus, I simply mean methods that share some of consensus’ analysis if the problems of traditional majoritarian decision-making and are trying to explore ways to deepen dialogue and produce results that […]
Every good gardener knows that the secret’s not the seed but the soil in which you sow it, right? Take a look at Gabriel Carlyle’s post Revolutionary Homework on the Peace News blog for some sound thinking on growing movement’s for change and lessons to be learnt from Egypt
I’m an unashamed fan (and user) of Riseup, the Seattle-based autonomous tech collective. Here’s an item from their latest email bulletin – a nice bit of action to protect activism. We Fought the Law, and We Won (warning: legal stuff specific to the United States) What do right-wing churches, kiss-ins, homophobic lawyers, and Riseup have […]
The Tao of Leadership and Facilitation with Gary Reiss Process Oriented Group Work Training on Rank, Power and Conflict Facilitation Bowden House, Totnes, South Devon. Friday evening July 15th – Sunday afternoon July 17th 2011 Process Oriented Psychology, founded by Dr. Arnold Mindell, offers powerful tools for making group life flow more smoothly in connection […]
In her book Truth or Dare, Starhawk wrote some oft-quoted and wise words on When not to use consensus. They stand re-quoting, and I’ve had the cheek to add a few thoughts: When there is no group in mind: A group thinking process cannot work effectively unless the group is cohesive enough to generate shared […]
A week ago I spent the day with 16 staff and volunteers from 4 sustainability organisations that all share the same faith background. We came together to vision for a sustainable faith community here in the UK and possibly internationally. Having read and blogged about Donella Meadows paper on visioning in the run up I […]
Environmentalists have been especially ineffective in creating any shared vision on the world they are working towards Donella Meadows Ouch! Next week I’m facilitating a visioning day for folk from various Quaker sustainability projects . In dialogue with my contact, Sunniva, at Quaker Peace and Social Witness we decided to frame the day as a […]
Add these to your bedtime reading ! We’ve always tried to be transparent about our learning here at Rhizome, but Viv McWaters has far outshone us with her fantastic post Tasting an amygdala hijack. A cautionary tale of when the lizard brain asserts its presence. You only need to look at the comments to know […]
Here at Rhizome we talk a lot about activism, though we like to think we have quite a broad view of what that actually means . We see it as both the more obviously political ‘campaigning’ work and the building of alternatives, building community. What’s one without the other, right? Not for everyone. This week […]
I understand the merits of Facebook as a campaigning tool. By nature I tend to be averse to anything that’s a)mainstream corporate and b)so fashionable, but I’ve taken the time to listen to those that use it and understood what they see in it as an information and organising tool. More to the point I’ve […]
