networks
Most change doesn’t happen in a linear fashion. It’s hard to predict. We also know that individuals, teams and organizations can’t do this work alone.
Whether you are working on social change, climate change, serving communities, or dismantling systems of oppression, change happens when we tap into the energy or working with others.
Networks, coalitions, and collaborations move beyond typical ways of working to find innovative way of effecting change. Developing effective networks takes a particular approach and expertise. It doesn’t work to apply the tools and strategies of change that work for organizations or institutions. It takes getting out of your comfort zone.
I love working with networks.
I’ll help you think outside the box by bringing network governance models that don’t fall into old traps of institutional “board” or “staff.”
Together we can examine the “rules” the network is operating under. Let’s adjust the rules that aren’t working and maximize the ones that are.
We’ll maximize the power of your network by leveraging differences across the network, enhancing network relationships, strengthening network interactions, and facilitate a culture of adaptive learning.
One of the most powerful tools I bring to the table is Social System Mapping.
Social System Mapping, pioneered by Greater than the Sum, is a tool that allows networks to ask questions. It’s an adaptable, online visual representation of the connections and demographic information of any network, coalition, movement, or collaborative.
Social System Mapping, and embedding the map into your network activities, has many uses such as:
increasing access to information for network members,
revealing the multifaceted aspects of the network to everyone in the network,
facilitating collaboration opportunities without requiring a centralized coordinating mechanism,
attuning to what your network needs as it develops, and
allowing the network to think differently together.
Let’s strengthen your network together.