Resources Drawing on our extensive experience, we have produced a number of quality resources on a range of topics. More will follow. Take a look at our huge old range of resources. All the works by Rhizome Coop are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. We invite you to read, download and […]
Organisational Development Has your organisation grown from strength to strength, and found new challenges or barriers to change? Have you had a surge in your membership, and found that your old ways of working are no longer working for you? Do you feel that your organisation is meeting its responsibilities in all that you do? […]
Working Together Online Remote working doesn’t mean your training has to grind to a halt. Take it online. We can help with participatory and effective online training! Find Out More Training We train people in the skills and states of mind they need to build: more participatory and democratic organisations and groups; more powerful campaigns […]
Working Together Online Need help with increased online working? We can facilitate your online meetings or events, or train your facilitators. Find out more Facilitation We are a team of professional facilitators, experienced at working with large and small groups. We have a very wide range of facilitation tools and approaches at our fingertips, including: […]
What we do “We facilitate, train and support groups and communities to grow in resilience, and be better able to organise collectively, dynamically, innovatively, and effectively towards a just and sustainable world.” Whether you are part of a small community or campaigning group, a large NGO, a co-operative, co-housing project or housing co-op, voluntary or […]
Our Team We currently have four co-operative members based in various locations across the UK. Between us (plus a little train travel) we cover the length and breadth of this island, from south west England to north east Scotland. We are experienced facilitators, trainers, and mediators, and are skilled in organisational development and working with […]
Following on from our Convergent Facilitation blog post, here’s an illustrative case study. Child custody is often a battleground in American legislatures, like abortion and gay marriage, with the additional ferocity provided by the divorce courts. In Minnesota, these struggles have gone on for more than a decade. In the end, some opponents just avoided […]
In 2011, Cherán a town of nearly 20,000 people in Michoacán, Mexico, locals threw out not just the loggers that had been threatening their forests, but the politicians and police too. After years of corruption and violence, they said loudly ‘Enough is Enough’, following it through with effective action. What can we learn from their […]
I’ve recently finished my second stint doing jury service. Jurors are cautioned not to talk about their experience of their time as jurors but trials are held in public so I am allowed to talk about information that’s in the public domain. My first time as a juror was around 35 years ago in the […]
So what can we make of the US election results, and what’s that got to do with us over here? Is it a last hurrah of a beleaguered set of people feeling left behind in a changing world? Is it simply another demonstration of the dangers of populist leaders stirring up the depths of racism, […]
