Reflecting on the many roles and quirks of community led change from 8 years of
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Louise Armstrong
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#livingchange, changemaker, freelance facilitator, systems change designer, coach, process doula, interested in endings and shifting funding practices
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Such a great and important piece, thanks for voicing and situating the inevitability of death in a wider societal context
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We need to talk about death.
We don't have a proper vocabulary to talk about loss - a universal experience, after all! - so I thought I'd write about it.
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My favourite article in this edition. Thanks for making the time to craft it and so happy that exists in the world
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Can HR ever see humans as more than resources?
Liam, co-founder of RadHr.org, a new open source library of radical policies, explores the thorny issue in STIR Winter Issue. @hackofalltrades
STIR Winter Issue is out now! Order a copy at 
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Still time to sign up for this event on Friday - Constellating Change: Supporting your collaborations to thrive in 2023 eventbrite.co.uk/e/constellatin
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7 Insight and lessons from working across the funding ecosystem:
And what that means for 2023
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Day 1 of 33 days of writing - still on holiday so doing it from bed this morning w a cuppa - still time to join us! ☕️ ✍🏼🌱
#systemschange eventbrite.co.uk/e/33days-syste
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Wanting a way to ease into 2023? Resisting New Year’s resolutions? Join our 33 days experiment - a daily writing prompt dropping into your inbox each day, still time to sign up, starts 2nd Jan
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This is an excellent post by , I highly recommend reading and using it.
It’s really got me thinking about framing endings in our work and ways that might shift energies.
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📝💻✨We’re close to 100 signs ups for the first 33days writing reflection process kicking off in Jan! Fancy joining sign up here
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5.We’re still dancing around challenges of formal organisational issues, finance, how much people get paid and the value of time when in different constellations of relationships
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4. We kept finding ourselves trapped in the assumptions and power dynamic that defaults to needing an organisation to give legitimacy and home to ideas and work
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3.There is a need to to think about the activity or interventions first and then work out what the appropriate mode of organising is from that (not the other way round)
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2.There is no one perfect organising place or form
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1.Organising as inquiry can be really energising and life giving and meaningful
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A thread 🧵 of five lessons from - Constellating change: a real time inquiry
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Does your collaborative need support in how it organises for change in 2023 - come and here more in January - eventbrite.co.uk/e/constellatin
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"What if writing was seen as a critical and important part of the change work that we do?" -
Want to commit to your writing practice in 2023? Louise, Sean & invite you to sign up to 33days to reflect on your systemic practice: schoolofsystemchange.org/courses/system
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We're #hiring
#3 out of #4 positions:
NetZeroCities Learning and Capability Building Lead
We are looking for someone to play a central part in a complex initiative spearheading radical systemic actions for cities to reach climate-neutrality by 2030.
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And some key lessons:
-Stange(r) collaborations
-When you start ‘working’ with your partner
-Designing across difference
-Deeping my relationship to my neighbourhood
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..practical fixer and chair shuffler, boundary spanner, reluctant community leader, Imagination and narrative producer, influencer of policy and possibility, emergent strategist / process doula (🧡)
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From being volunteer, a formal governance role as a Trustee, a practice ground to compliment my day job AND being an active citizen () to….
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Throw back: but with appraisal season coming up for many - sharing a format of a collective and relational appraisal processes that could be adapted
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Ten tips for facilitating emergent processes by
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If you’re looking for a way to kick start your writing intentions in 2023 - this 33 days process might be just for you, starting Jan 3rd with
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Reflecting on some experiments in writing and what writing as a changemaker looks like louise-a.medium.com/experiments-in - for anyone who has the urge to write or would like to do more.
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At 3.33 today we launch our new year reflections - that start in 33 days… Join us in Jan for 33days.. of Systemic Reflections schoolofsystemchange.org/courses/system… - w/ - pay what you can!
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Feeling quite sad about the demise of Twitter today. While knowing things have to end to make space for what is emerging
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#RIPTwitter #TwitterDown
Everyone checking and refreshing Twitter feeds to see if it is really working or not
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THIS!
If each of the biggest UK funders did this for just one org on this list, in itself it would be an innovation in shared investment and resourcing approaches.
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Invest £50million each into following orgs for 7 - 10 years, approx half for them to use as they need, + half to gift on, 1 focus around thoughtful urgent transition, based on their existing work. Do / distribute by design this over + over for next 3 - 5 years, grow the list.
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Loving the open sharing of the journey and stages of brining Project Mushroom to life - you can join the waitlist too tryprojectmushroom.com
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Watch this space: 33 questions to kick of 2023. #reflection #writing #intentionsetting and gratitude to for being such a great space to come and cowork ✨☕️
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Creative session exploring a 33 day systemic practice reflection to welcome in the new year @louise_a @Sean_K_Andrew @SystemChangeSch - if you want to join us in January let us know or watch this space #creative
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'We're working flat out. It's good work. But it's not enough. It feels futile. We need to close so that new work can take our place. Work that feels commensurate to the needs we see'
👆The words of one of the many CEOs I've spoken to recently about a possible closure. 1/2
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“If we want people to step up and act in support of life on earth, let’s cultivate stories of interconnection, courage, humility, stewardship and awe for the extraordinary web of life that we’re part of.”
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What story do you tell yourself about what it means to be human? This matters because the way we frame humanity, will determine the future of humanity (and a lot of other species too). I wrote a thing medium.com/reset-narrativ
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"In the next decade we need a paradigm shift in how endings are considered as part of the lifecycle of orgs across civil society & beyond."
Excellent piece by @ionaflawrence on @stewardingloss with actions for us all - especially infrastructure leaders.
medium.com/thefarewellfun
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Followed by a session with team on the what and how of ‘endings’, building on the work of . Reframing the value of endings, exploring micro practices, ending grant relationships well to diving into end of eras / capitalism…
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Themes around how to value the necessary convening work. And the tricky dynamics that always show up in collaborative organising around conflict, money/funding and power/interpersonal dynamics
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Today was a two workshop day!
First a session with Health Basecamp on Organising for Change - patterns of organising (beyond the default of organisations)
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Great to have @louise_a coming to our Basecamp today looking at organising for change and sharing examples of projects she has worked on over the years. @SystemChangeSch @SustShipping @Forum4theFuture @PeckhamCoalLine @Civsocfutures #systemschange
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Great podcast ft & . On death and dying as a systems problem, a social process and a unifying experience. On the need to reframe and shift tightly held narratives and assumptions.
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NEW 
: To many, death has no value and is relegated to the margins. How could we die better in the UK? How do we bring death back into life?
@JenniferTHF is joined by @Richard56 & @libby_sallnow, authors on @TheLancet commission on the value of death.
health.org.uk/news-and-comme
: To many, death has no value and is relegated to the margins. How could we die better in the UK? How do we bring death back into life?
@JenniferTHF is joined by @Richard56 & @libby_sallnow, authors on @TheLancet commission on the value of death.
health.org.uk/news-and-comme1