Get their take on what makes a great workshop: our Grassroots Trainers’ Network colleagues at Tripod are organising a useful workshop in Edinburgh. Contact us if you’d like a similar workshop run by us and tailored for your needs where you are based. We would bring our extensive experience to bear, designing workshop packages on […]
Get their take on working with conflict: our Grassroots Trainers’ Network colleagues at Navigate are organising a useful workshop in Manchester. To get a taster of the extensive work we’ve done on communication and working with conflict, have a read here. or if you need a hand from Rhizome, read about our working with conflict […]
Continuing our series of posts about decision-making, we’re talking here about important things to get right in decision-making, before we explore the relationship between consensus decision-making and voting, and when to use different methods. Do please let us know what you think. There are resources available to help you in your decision-making, on facilitation, on […]
Rhizome tip: there’ll be ace organisers there for you to meet, and you might end up singing! NEON’s Movement Builders programme is a 5 day intensive training course for people working towards big systemic change. Half theory, half practical tools, this five day course puts you in a room with 30 organisers across your region […]
This is the first blog post in a series about decision‑making. In this and the next one, we’ll be talking about important things to get right in decision‑making, before we explore the relationship between consensus decision‑making and voting, and when to use different methods. Do please let us know what you think. There are resources […]
Building on Rhizome’s personal resilience and burn-out work, developed together with Navigate and Ecodharma, our Grassroots Trainers’ Network colleagues at Navigate are organising a useful workshop in Bristol. From Burnout to Balance: Co-creating cultures of collective and self-care 2 – 4th March 2018, Stokes Croft, Bristol Friday 6.30 – 9pm, Saturday 10.30 – 6.30pm, Sunday […]
In the final post in our series on Appreciative Inquiry, using another case study we’ll give you some more hints about how to use the questions. Do get in touch if you need our facilitation services to guide you through, and let us know about your experiences of this method in the comments section […]
In order to help you try out Appreciative Inquiry (without our expert guidance!), the next two blog posts will guide you through a foundation, questions…. The set of questions used in Appreciative Inquiry is called a protocol. I can best show how they are developed by listing the questions we used in Thanet […]
Following on from our Appreciative Inquiry intro, and continuing our case study where illustrating how it was used to develop community strategies, read on to hear the impact following visiting the area over 5 years on… The project described in part 1 took place in 2002/2003. In 2008 I visited Ryedale to talk to some […]
Following on from our Appreciative Inquiry intro, read the first of our case studies, illustrating how the method can be used out ‘in the field’, starting with a rural area… Ryedale is a mainly rural district in North Yorkshire. We started by working with a core group of a dozen local activists and council officers. […]
