December 16, 2016 In the aftermath of the U.S. elections, one thing is clear: Most Americans are remarkably in agreement with the idea that the current political and economic systems simply are not generating well-being, prosperity, or security for the vast majority...
Watch the first 90 seconds of this video from the Alaska Alliance to hear Alaska Native and regional co-chair, Nicholai Joekay, speak powerfully of this experience of consent-based governance. Continue watching to hear more Alliance partners speak of their rewarding...
Our friend and business coach, Chris Slaughter of the NC Small Business Development and Technology Center sent the following research-based advice via email and we thought it was so useful, we wanted to share with our community. Zoom Fatigue — it’s a thing The...
In honor of the young leaders who are drawing attention to the ecological and existential crisis of climate change, this week of Sept 20-27, we want to share a vision for leadership and governance for the next decade. We believe that those involved in...
UPDATE! We are excited to launch the pilot Collaborative Governance Accelerator with an introduction and information webinar! August 15, 2019 at 3-4pm eastern/ 12-1pm pacific. There is no cost to join this call. Please register here On this webinar, we will: Talk...
Circle Forward embraces whole-heartedly The Equity Manifesto including PolicyLink’s invitation to “use it, share it, and reflect on it in your lives, your work and your struggle”. Our experience continues to convince us that consent-based governance helps...
We know many of you are looking for tools and structures to achieve equity, transparency, shared leadership, and forward momentum– i.e., collaborative governance So, this summer, we are developing and offering a pilot version of a Collaborative Governance...
Across the U.S. and Canada, multi-stakeholder collaborative networks are addressing the systemic issues and wicked problems that cannot be solved by any one organization or institution alone. In the past 5 years here at Circle Forward, we’ve been working with these...
Part 1: Equity and Consent in Collaborative Networks In every area of public concern, we are seeing organizations from all sectors of society — non-profit, business, government and community — digging in to the hard, deep work of equity. The need for...
A version of this article originally appeared in WNC Woman Magazine, September 2018 Fostering resilience in the Asheville area photo credit: Nelle Gregory When Laura Lengnick received an “angel grant” to be invested in women working for sustainability in the local...
When we met John Winnenburg, at the Appalachian Studies Association conference last year, the Winding Road initiative was in transition. “We started out with a participatory vision, but then, politics and personalities started to dominate. We weren’t creating the...
