resources

We are influenced by many different ideas and approaches, below are some resources that we have found valuable in our thinking.

facilitating effective meetings

coming soon

making collaborative decisions

Consensus Decision Making

• How the “N Street Consensus Method” Helps N Street Cohousing Thrive, Diana Leafe Christian
  
• The Five Fold Path of Productive Meetings, Starhawk
• The Top 10 Most Common Mistakes In Consensus Process and What To Do Instead, Tree Bressen
• Consensus Decision Making, Seeds for Change

Sociocracy

• Introductory articles and videos on Sociocracy
  
• When to use consent and consensus decision-making?
• Empowered Learning Circles – a six session study programme in sociocracy for groups
• Insider view on decision making. Experiences of Dynamic Governance in Pioneer Valley Cohousing (video)

Holacracy

• Introduction to Holacracy
  
• The advice process in Holacracy

Convergent Facilitation

• A new approach to deciding difficult issues
  
• Convergent Facilitation Miki Kashtan (video)
• Non-controversial essence: bringing people together (article)
  
• Non-controversial essence: unpacking and transcending worldviews (article)
  
• Holding tough dilemmas together, part 1
  
• Holding tough dilemmas together, part 2

conflict facilitation

coming soon

exploring power dynamics

• Neon Introductory Guide: Power and Privilege, A handbook for political organisers
• Everyday Feminism – Intersectional feminism for your everyday life
• You are not a bad person: How facing privilege can be liberating Miki Kashtan (article)
• And other articles at http://thefearlessheart.org and http://facingprivilege.org/
  
• The Urgency of Intersectionality Kimberle Crenshaw (TED talk)
  
• What organisational culture best fosters diversity? Kaytee Ray-Reik (article)
  

Racism

• Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria: and other conversations about race, Beverly Daniel Tatum (2017) (book)
• Birth of a White Nation Jacqueline Battalora (Video)
• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, Peggy McIntosh (article)
• Uprooting Racism: How white people can work for racial justice Paul Kivel  (book)
  
• http://paulkivel.com for lot of articles and other resources 
  
• Why I'm no longer talking to white people about race Renni Eddo-Lodge (2017) (book)
• White fragility: why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism Robin DiAngelo (2018) (book) and this article
• Becoming an Anti-Racist White Ally: How a White Affinity Group Can Help
• Dismantling Racism Workbook
• Me and White Supremacy -The Workbook Layla Saad
• Staying off the Megaphone and in the Movement: Cultivating Solidarity and Contesting Authority Among White Antiracist Activists  Amie Thurber, Kelley Frances Fenelon, and Leah Marion Roberts
  

Classism

• Class Matters: cross-class alliance building for middle class activists
  
• Betsy Leondar-Wright (2005) (book) and http://www.classmatters.org/2005_07/
• Class Action
• Where We Stand: Class Matters, bell hooks (2000) (book)
  
• Chavs: The demonization of the working class Owen Jones (2012) (book)
• Chav Solidarity D. Hunter (2018) (book)
• Surviving the side effects of the class struggle

Gender

• Beautiful Trouble Toolbox: challenge patriarchy as you organize
  
• Going to places that scare me: Personal reflections on challenging male supremacy Chris Crass
• Transwhat? A guide towards allyship

Ableism

• https://everydayfeminism.com/tag/disability/
  
• Doing Social Justice: 10 reasons to give up ableist language
• The Social Model of Disability Grant Carson (article)
  

Organisational systems and processes

Our free Living Systems online course

Introduction to systems
Navigate's System Development Handout

• a handout that aims to briefly outline Living Systems and system development
  

Dominic Barter: Understanding Justice as a System

• Dominic Barter talking about ways of perceiving and understanding social systems, in the context of systems for handling justice/conflict

How Wolves Change Rivers

• A short video that tells a story of the relationships between different beings within an ecosystem and changes that emerge when wolves return to a place

Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System

• An article by Donella Meadows in which she talks about the different points of intervening in a complex system to influence and change it (a bit more technical/in depth)

Dominic Barter: Mutual Aid Networks to Dialogical Systems

• Long video (1hour) talking about social systems in relationship to mutual aid networks and COVID-19

Spotify: Chalk Dust for Ninjas: Making Systems Visible

• Interview between Alan Seid and Dominic Barter on system

Purpose & Values
NGL Community’s overview of Vision, Mission, Purpose & Theory of Change

• A brief explanation and questions to determine your vision, mission, purpose & theory of change. Also includes some information on specific systems.

Reinventing Organisations: The role of culture & values

• Some background information on how values are related to and lived by some ‘teal’ organisations.

Reinventing Organisations: The role of purpose

• Some background information on how purpose is lived and related to within the ‘teal’ paradigm described in Reinventing Organisations

Frederic Laloux on purpose

• A series of videos of Frederic Laloux (author of Reinventing Organisations) speaking about purpose - includes a video on how to determine purpose.

Navigate's "What to do if there’s no shared purpose?" flowchart

• A flowchart of sorts with some options of what to do if a group has no shared purpose.

Systems and Power
Privilege and organisational culture

• Frederic Laloux on how group culture is influenced by society and how this impacts how people show up.

Conflict
XR UK Conflict System Example
https://reinventingorganizationswiki.com/theory/conflict-resolution/

Resource Flow
Compensation & Incentives

• Reinventing Organisations Wiki detailing some approaches to distributing financial resources

 Working Hours & Flexibility

• Reinventing Organisations Wiki detailing some approaches to distributing time and capacity

 Article about money piles / gift economy

• By Miki Kashtan

 Article about gift economy

• By Miki Kashtan

 Mutual Support Communities

• This is an unfinished documentation of the mutual support communities system - where resources are shared based on needs. Here’s a storyboard that summarises the idea
  
  

Information Flow
Information Flow in ‘Teal’ Organisations

• An introduction to information flow in ‘teal’ organisations and case studies / examples

Feedback
Feedback & Performance Management in ‘Teal’ Organisations

• An introduction to feedback in ‘teal’ organisations, and some case studies of how it’s done in some organisations.

 Clear the air meeting (p165)

• As developed by Georg Tarne. Outlines a process for engaging with tensions in a meeting set up for it.

Retromat

• Stemming from agile, a collection of ways/methods of doing a retrospective (review) of what has happened and incorporating this feedback.

Sociocracy: Intentional Feedback

• An article listing various forms of how feedback can show up in an organisation

A guide to feedback systems and giving and receiving feedback from an NVC based perspective

• (This guide is offered on a gift economy basis, meaning you are requested to consider giving some money to help sustain those who worked on it, but you don’t have to in order to download it.)

A little blog about how to “not take things personally” in practice
A video about the interpersonal level of giving and receiving feedback

• Paul’s 34 minute video on giving and receiving feedback.

running great workshops

• Facilitating Group Learning: Strategies for Success with Diverse Adult Learners George Lakey, brilliant book, based on many years of experience working with activists in a learning context
• Training for Change - excellent resources for social justice facilitators from a US based training organisation
• How to Run a Great Workshop: The Complete Guide to Designing and Running Brilliant Workshops and Meetings Nikki Highmore Sims (book), a useful guide to developing and running participatory workshops
• Training for Dummies Elaine Biech, good resource, lots of basic tips and techniques for facilitators.
• The Change Agency Lots - of resources from an activist education organisation in Australia
  
• Participatory Learning and Action: A Trainers Guide Jules Pretty, Irene Guijt, John Thompson and Ian Scoones (book), lots of ideas for participatory workshop games, tools and exercises
  
• Resources on running workshops, Seeds for Change
  
• Strategic Questioning, Manual Fran Peavey
  
• The Wilderdom Store: Gear for Adventurous Learning wide selection of 'games' and activities to support learning
• Mycoted, a wiki with lots of creative thinking and planning tools

sustaining ourselves & our groups

• Ulex Project - resources on sustainable activism and info on their courses
  
• In The Tiger’s Mouth: An Empowerment Guide For Social Action Katrina Shields, (book) has good sections on preventing personal and organisational burnout
  
• Sustainable Activism and Avoiding Burnout: leaflet from the sadly now closed Activist Trauma Support group
• Plan to Thrive – Australian blog on health and wellbeing of people and groups working for social and ecological justice
• Overcoming Burnout - Nicole Vosper’s blog
• Communities of Care and A Round-up and Re-frame of the Community Care Conversation Yashna Padamsee

Trauma and radical mental health

• Activist Trauma and Recovery: Activist Trauma Support
• The Body keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma Bessel Van Der Kolk
• 8 Practices For A More Emotionally Just Organization
• Rest for Resistance  - a mental health zine for trans and queer people of colour and other marginalised communities
• Balance or Burnout, Sophy Banks  and other articles at: https://transitionnetwork.org/do-transition/inner-transition/
• Organising Cultures of Resilience: Activism in the Anthropocene Kevin Buckland
  

strategic and campaign planning

coming soon