Rhizome is delivering an open workshop on working with conflict, in conjunction with Co-operatives West Midlands, on 9th September 2017 in Birmingham. In this one day training run by Rhizome coop, participants will: – develop a deeper understanding of the role of communication in working with conflict – explore and practice some of the co-operative […]
If you read our last post, you’ll know that this is the second of a short series of three blogs to introduce and share our free guides in our resources section. This one is on diversity. Our second aim is to remind you also that our blog posts and the rest of this site amplify […]
This blog and the two that follow are to tell you about the resources that Rhizome offers that introduce topics crucial to us and the organisations and groups we work with: meeting facilitation; groups; and diversity. Facilitation, with which I’m starting, reminds me of playing chess. You start by learning the rules (move your knights […]
I came across the notion of ‘rough consensus’ only recently. It is used by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a large, self-organised, international community of network designers, operators, vendors, and researchers. It is the principal body that develops new Internet standards, which are voluntary. It is open to any interested individual. It has no […]
We’ll be at the Earth First! Summer Gathering offering workshops and learning from others, getting inspired and ready to campaign and organise. Come along to our short workshops on consensus, conflict, mediation, burn-out and resilience, direct action and more. Check out their website for directions, the full programme and what you’ll need to bring, or […]
Rhizome facilitators and trainers sometimes make mistakes, if you can believe it! On this blog, we share our learning when we fall into such heffalump traps from time-to-time. My biggest mistake took place at a Future Search Conference in Bristol. This method is a way for a community or organisation to create a shared vision […]
Our facilitation draws on many different models and approaches, so to mark the occasion of Rhizome’s new website, I decided to unearth useful advice and questions, to remind ourselves and for you, dear readers. I went back and re-read the blogs from 2010, the first year of our existence. I was quite impressed! There was […]
Tripod is a fellow collective of the Grassroots Trainers’ Network, and ace people to boot. If you’re near Edinburgh, it’s an exciting opportunity to work with them on a fab programme. Tripod: Training for Creative Social Action Project Coordinator Tripod is a small, independent workers’ cooperative which supports groups fighting for social, economic and environmental […]
Welcome to our new website. It’s a bottom-up redesign that aims to give you the information you need about what we offer, who we are, our approaches and understandings we can’t wait to share with you, and how we can support you. From the start of Rhizome’s journey in 2010, we have evolved and learned. […]
