Bonnington Square – c’est si bon Everyone in Rhizome who can – every six months or so – meets up to do all the things that are best done face-to-face. For a team that’s scattered across the UK, regular calls help us run the co-op, and working together whenever possible builds relationships and is great […]
How To Do It – Creating Bottom up Political Participation 9-10th April 2016, London From citizen engagement to radical collective action, the focus of the event is how ‘ordinary’ people can come together to collectively act upon and change their environment. The challenge is to create determined and conscious collective action, which can be effective, […]
In April 2016, one of the world’s leading activist training groups, Training for Change, will be visiting London and offering a 10-day programme made of two powerful workshops for trainers and facilitators. About these trainings The three-day ‘Training for Social Action Trainers’ is an intensive training designed for experienced facilitators wanting to revitalise their work; […]
Sustaining our Activism: Building Resilient Communities Workshops in the UK in 2016 To sustain our work for social change we need to feel empowered, nourished and creative. In these workshops we will explore tools and strategies for finding inspiration, hope, and ways forward through the ups and downs, to keep going for the long […]
Rhizome is happy to be supporting the new Co-operatives UK programme, for which we will design & deliver training to existing and new co-ops across Britain. Co-operatives UK and The Co-operative Bank have agreed a £1 million three-year partnership to support the development and growth of the UK’s dynamic co‑operative and social enterprise sector. The […]
If you didn’t see this earlier in the year, fired up by the symbolism of Bonfire Night*, and you’re more than ready for the weekend after a long week, give this a watch: How many of us have a sneaking suspicion that something pretty fundamental is going wrong in the world? We keep hearing about […]
Just missed out on joining a small and mighty team of people passionate about using nonviolent power to turn the tide of injustice in society? Then how about applying for a job co-ordinating Turning the Tide’s programme? It’ll be based in London, and the deadline is 20th November – see here for more info. Good […]
In Rhizome, we ourselves certainly have lots of experience of groups ‘going wrong’, whether through our personal, activist or professional lives. Sometimes this is with groups, organisations and communities we do work for, and other times that we are part of ourselves (hard though it is to believe, I know!). How’s about yourselves? What does […]
In my last blog, I spelled out some of the plusses and minuses of consensus, as I see them. I ended by saying that none of the minuses that I have come across in my reading quite hit the mark, in relation to my experience with Mandorla Cohousing. In this blog, I’d like to explain […]
I belong to a cohousing group based in Herefordshire called Mandorla Cohousing. You can find out more about us at http://www.cohousing.org.uk/herefordshire-mandorla-cohousing. We try and take decisions by consensus, both formally and informally. My experience there has made me question the value of and need for consensus, especially in formal consensus procedures. This is the first […]
