How to Manage Archetypal Network Tensions – an Interview with Dylan Skybrook (Part 2):
Excerpt: A Leadership Story – Network Style – Part 2
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Power in Participatory Community Network Mapping- Part 3 of an interview with Aldo de Moor
“Maps have power. They always have throughout human history. Maps have been very powerful artifacts” – Aldo de Moor
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Using Language and Stories in Participatory Community Network Mapping | Part 4 of an Interview with Aldo de Moor
Storytelling is very important to inspire participation. However, it is especially the boundary spanning across communities – stories that capture the essence of an activity or an interaction in a community. ~ Aldo de Moor
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MAYA TOWNSEND CONNECTS THE DOTS WITH REALTIME NETWORK MAPPING
. . . one of the [important] pieces… is to get that sense of ‘we’re not in this alone,’ that ‘we have more connections than we know.’
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Theory and Practice in Social System Mapping: Part 3 of an Interview with Glenda Eoyang
How a Social System Map Expands Consciousness and Increases Choice.
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It Takes a Social System to Map a Social System
It Needs to Be a True Collaboration Social System Mapping is an art more than a science. It’s an art that entails a process that starts with understanding the purpose or aims of a collaborative/action/intentional network, learning what kinds of other- and systemic- awareness would amplify the network’s ability to learn and act together, translating…
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A Co-Inspirational Feed-Back Loop with Eugene Cooke
Eugene Cooke is an Agroecologist and urban farmer with experience from California to Kenya. He’s the founder of Grow Where You Are, is currently located in Atlanta and is focused on food sovereignty. He’s also a member of a relatively large network funded and convened by one of our mapping clients. Meaning – he’s in…
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Whose Relationship IS It, Anyway?
Most of us think about ‘Relationship’ too personally, too one-dimensionally, and too cautiously to support transformation.
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Amplifying Sameness & Damping Difference Something that triggers me quite a lot is when people unconsciously (and sometimes intentionally) amplify sameness. It’s one of those harmless-seeming but insidious, nearly invisible, unconsciously destructive dynamics that’s way too prevalent in certain flavors of change-making cultures. What do I mean by ‘Amplifying Sameness’? For example: One person says…
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