Learning as we go
Through this blog I periodically share learning from projects I have recently been involved with. These can be reminders of things we know but in the day to day press [...]
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Nov 2022
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Jun 2022
Youth inclusion – what we’ve learned
The Testing Change project is a global collaboration of organizations who set out to identify and test some new operational approaches that could help organizations stay relevant. We have thus [...]
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May 2022
The Truths that Remain
Daffodils are known in some cultures for truth, trust, self-awareness and renewal I have been doing a lot of listening over the early part of 2022 (through virtual [...]
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Jan 2022
Practice Makes Perfect
Many fluent English speakers may have heard this expression “Practice Makes Perfect" at some point. Most of our organizations and projects are of course not really going for ‘perfect’ but [...]
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Dec 2021
Reflecting on the Year
I haven’t done an end of the year blog post in a number of years now, but there is something about this year that feels like it merits marking its [...]
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Jun 2021
Global Trends 2021
I periodically do a review of some global trends that may impact organizations I work with. Here is some of what I am seeing mid-2021. Uneven vaccination and recovery – [...]
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Mar 2021
It’s All in the Questions
Powerful questions are often the key to finding our way forward. Identifying the questions that will work for your group, keeping them front and center on a regular basis, and [...]
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Dec 2020
Rebuilding civil society
Recently I had the opportunity to co-create, host and facilitate the annual workshop of Accountable Now. We used many of the approaches that we have developed through the Testing Change [...]
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Apr 2020
The Next Phase
We’ve survived the first weeks… Phase 1, the high intensity, quick decision-making time is ending. Phase 2 is harder, it’s the endurance phase. It’s like moving from acute to chronic, [...]
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Nov 2019
Themes and Tips from a Peer Convening
Upswell is a convening organized by the national organization Independent Sector to bring together those working towards change in the social sector in the US. The following are a few [...]