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I say, I say, I say… 25 Aug 2013 | 12:21 am
I-statements. To quote Wikipedia: “I-messages are often used with the intent to be assertive without putting the listener on the defensive. They are also used to take ownership for one’s feelings rath...
Sustaining Resistance 2014 – deadline 31st August; fully funded places 21 Aug 2013 | 07:12 pm
Sustaining Resistance, Empowering Renewal 26 April – 4 May 2014 This training offers personal and collective tools to make our activism more effective by supporting us to: - stay in activist work ...
Consensus: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it? 15 Aug 2013 | 03:12 pm
Over at Organizing Change, Drew Serres is writing about the problems of consensus and how to fix them. It’s good stuff and I’d urge you to read it and join the conversation. He shares some of the prob...
Extinct toads invade climate-killing banks! 9 Jul 2013 | 12:09 am
Tagged: art activism, climate change, Reverend Billy, Stop Shopping Choir
Crowd Wise brings out the wisdom of the crowd: the case of Transition Town Lewes 8 Jul 2013 | 07:22 pm
The curse of the consultant is to be forever moving on, often never hearing the results of his or her work. So it was a great pleasure to hear from a couple of people who had been involved in somethin...
The Facilitator’s Dilemma 8 Jul 2013 | 02:48 pm
In Rhizome we have recently been sharing with each other the work we have done and how we felt about it. Common to us all of course is working with, facilitating, training, supporting groups of people...
essentials of conflict resolution 5 Jul 2013 | 12:31 am
Matthew and I have been doing some work with a food coop; helping voluntary team leaders review and add to their conflict management tools. We’ll shortly be running our third workshop. Here’s what we ...
Time: the currency of social change 2 Jul 2013 | 11:24 pm
“What links the Spanish 15-M protest movement with a Time Bank in West Yorkshire?” An intriguing question answered in the post The edge between protest and prototyping solutions over on the REconomy P...
Untitled 14 Jun 2013 | 07:15 pm
Dwight Towers has been envisioning more participatory formats for events s/he’s attended. The latest reads well and suggests some easily achievable tweaks to the usual ‘sage on the stage’/ ‘chalk and ...
The Beginners Guide to Consent 9 Jun 2013 | 11:09 pm
The following came round an email list I lurk on, so I visited the website and am very glad I did so. Take a look yourselves. I’d redcommend the interview with Oxford based activist and facilitator Cl...
