Monday saw me on an early train to Wellington, Shropshire to facilitate Bridge’s staff and trustee ‘Visioning’ away day. It was a fairly short notice piece of work for me, but made much more possible by the clear brief and draft agenda Bridges’ co-ordinator provided. The real pleasure about this job was that using participatory […]
An old friend emailed with details of two campaigning courses at Centre for Alternative Technology this autumn, which she’s involved in teaching. They might be right for your organisations or your local group: PEOPLE POWER! Campaigning Skills That Make A Difference Fri 5th November to Sun 7th November 2010 Are you: Part of a group […]
This weekend myself and Emily Hodgkinson (process worker, facilitator and Transition Leicester stalwart) co-facilitated a day and a half training for facilitators at Leicester’s Eco House. More specifically facilitators of the Transition Leicester Footpaths: Community Carbon Reduction project, which I’ve blogged about before. The group of 12 was made up of some people already experienced […]
I’m just back from working with a development education organisation (more on that soon) who need to finalise the vision we were working on, and hope to do it online. I promised to send some suggestions for tools they could use, and decided to broaden my horizons in the process. So a quick thanks to […]
The folk at The Change Agency have added some new resources to the strategy pages of their website. Some of the new resources are listed and linked below, but you might like to check out the pages if you haven’t recently. Mechanisms of change (233k pdf) – An exercise which explores the different ways social […]
People & Planet have opted to use Open Space Technology for the second day of their flagship conference for student campaigners: Shared Planet. Rhizome is providing support in the form of a training for Open Space facilitators; mentoring for key staff over phone and email; and then being there on the day (November 7th) to […]
Over the years I’ve worked with London Islamic Network for the Environment a couple of times. They’re now known as Wisdom In Nature and have just produced a 20 page booklet: Islam & Climate Change: A Call to Heal Peace to you, We are delighted to announce the launch of the online version of our […]
Since June, I’ve been working in a small way to support Greenpeace UK in developing a training package on political lobbying skills. The package will in turn play its part in the formation of a new network of lobbyists. Up until recently my role was simply suggesting potential improvements to the developing agenda. On Saturday […]
In the last few weeks I’ve been working with Emily from Transition Leicester on a training for facilitators which we deliver in about 3 weeks time. The facilitators in question are going to pioneer the first round of Transition Leicester’s Footpaths project. On the surface it’s another carbon footprinting programme based on getting workmates or […]
Some of you may have read our thinking on story-based strategy in previous posts. Unsurprisingly I pricked up my ears when Ron Donaldson’s The ecology of knowledge blog mentioned the chemistry of storytelling and took me to Marguerite Granat’s post which succinctly explains the role of story in our society.
