WATCH THE WEBINAR HERE If you are involved in large-scale systems change, then you probably recognize that changing a system is about changing the relationships among the different people and parts of the system. Your work is likely to involve identifying who is...
If you are working on large scale systems change, like building resilient community food systems, or large landscape conservation, or public health — have you ever considered that your work may be part of a movement that is defining the next evolution of...
In Propositions for Organizing with Complexity: Learnings from the Appalachian Foodshed Project (AFP), Nikki D’Adamo-Damery described nine propositions that emerged from the work of the AFP. Proposition #2 was: “Establish Consent instead of Consensus.” The following...
This is the first article in our series on the 8 Primary Principles of Collaborative Governance. “Trust always affects outcomes—speed and cost. When trust goes up, speed will also go up, and costs will go down. When trust goes down, speed...
This month, participants in our free monthly video call, “Deepening the Art of Facilitating Consent,” asked me to send out one of the slides I used. The topic of the call was The Difference Between Consent and Consensus, and the point I made was: perhaps...
