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We are offering a new section in our Resources section: a set of presentation slide decks that can be used by you for training or sharing with people who want to learn more about networks. You can edit or mix and match any of the slides into a custom slide deck that will work best for

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Movement NetLab, a Think and Do Collective, formed after Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Sandy with the idea of sharing the lessons learned from those innovations in decentralized organizing. Four of the group discovered my NW Handbook and the concept of self — organizing and arrived in Athens Ohio in the winter of 2013 for a several

This post can be downloaded in the Network Mapping Module : Post-It Note Mapping, along with 5 different processes for mapping your networks. Google Drive has a new option called Jamboard that is great for introducing people to network mapping and can be done collaboratively during a zoom session. When you open your Google Drive go

Having a group or network take a values survey raises awareness of the values and behaviors that enable networks to be system shifting or transformational. Network Weaver has published a Network Values Module. Within this module are links to two web-based network values surveys, along with instructions. Also included are printable versions of the network

“The beauty of anti-racism is that you don’t have to pretend to be free of racism to be anti-racist. Anti-racism is the commitment to fight racism wherever you find it, including in yourself. And it’s the only way forward.” — Ijeoma Oluo All too often, white people ask black people: “What can I do?” I believe

As we navigate our new world, how can we learn to continue our important work without face-to-face meetings and work sessions? Even more importantly, how can we provide support to each other, share our fears, and help each other figure out how to meet our needs — even though we cannot be in the same

Because networks often engage many people, some of whom are only occasionally involved, it is harder to track the impact of the network. One solution to this might be the use of a technique called Ripple Effect Mapping. Historically this process was done during a face-to-face session but I believe it could also be done

2020 is not only a new year, but the beginning of a new decade. I’ve pulled together some questions you might want to use to guide a deep reflection in preparation for the coming times. I’ve come to see that the embracing of true peerness with all others is the core value that needs to

We are seeing a shift in the social transformation space from evaluation to learning and support for change. Evaluation has too often been a judgment-based, funder-driven approach to determining whether progress has taken place that tends to penalize risk-taking and innovation and focus mindlessly on outcomes even when it’s not clear what the solutions are. System-shifting networks are

Networks come in all shapes and sizes. However, if you want to be a system shifting network you will need to put in place scaffolding so that transformation can emerge easily and quickly. In nature, billions of soil organisms and mycorrhizal fungal mats work together to form this type of scaffolding to distribute resources and