Tag Archives: Community organizations

Posts Tagged ‘Community organizations’

Social innovation from the inside out
May 13th, 2012 | Expressive Change | Warren & Tana | 2 Comments
We are excited to share this talk that Warren gave last month at University of Cape Town exploring the organizational dimensions of social innovation. In our experience, few social purpose organizations spend much time looking at how their own organizational cultures support or hinder the kinds of changes in the world they are working so hard to create. In this talk, Warren challenges us to consider how much of our current difficulty in fostering and scaling social innovation is bound up in this disconnect. What kind of change might we create if [...]
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Transcending discontent
March 12th, 2012 | Expressive Change | Tolu Ilesanmi | 2 Comments
We aim to make more people see that Nigeria is not “them” but “I” and “us”, bringing closer to home the urgency and the responsibility of change. We aim to show that change begins when many more Nigerians stop being frustrated at the government, the polity and the society and channel the same energy into becoming the bigger change they seek, in day-to-day interactions with family members, friends, colleagues, clients and other Nigerians and non Nigerians.
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City of Sanctuary
December 15th, 2011 | Expressive Change | Tana | 1 Comment
Casper ter Kuile shared this City of Sanctuary clip with us as a beautiful example of a social change initiative that is completely rooted in meaning and experience. On the City of Sanctuary blog, Giuilia, a newly arrived volunteer from Italy, shares how surprised she is to see so many asylum seekers and refugees [...]
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Invoking Jim
August 5th, 2011 | Expressive Change | Warren | No Comments
My father-in-law, Jim, is a great destroyer of walls. Every house he has lived in will bear me out. Each is filled with reclaimed open space, the air laced with the cheerful scars of what has been removed. To create such space, a man needs to have a strong desire to see the world – the whole thing – from the chair where he sits. He also needs a hammer.
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When our first instinct is to run away . . .
June 11th, 2011 | Expressive Change | Warren | 2 Comments
I once asked a guy named Pedro, who had spent his life founding and working in one of the Mondragon industrial cooperatives, what his most engaging organizational experience had been. He gave me a kind of half-smile. “It was when we went bankrupt.”
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Distributed voice
April 24th, 2011 | Expressive Change | Tana | 3 Comments
I once worked at an advocacy and training organization where, in an effort to look more professional in the eyes of our funders and partners, it was decided that all correspondence would have a uniform look- even down to the font that we used in our emails. I could handle the idea of uniformity for [...]
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The people in the room
March 25th, 2011 | Expressive Change | Warren & Tana | 2 Comments
Gregory Branch is a doctor and public health official who also happens to direct an unusual gospel choir in Baltimore. We knew Gregg a number of years ago when we lived in Maryland, and for a little while we even sang in the choir. Gregg is a fiercely kind man with a large spirit and [...]
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Appreciative feedback triads: Kupa humbowo muhutatu
March 7th, 2011 | Expressive Change | Warren & Tana | No Comments
At Kufunda Learning Village, we’ve recently experimented with a powerful exercise called ‘Appreciative Feedback Triads’ or ‘Kupa humbowo muhutatu’ in Shona. Here’s how it works…
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Sounding
February 24th, 2011 | Expressive Change | Warren | 4 Comments
The most catalytic organizational practice I’ve encountered lately is humblingly simple. It involves nothing more than pausing in the middle of a meeting or discussion and going around the room to hear from each person how they are actually experiencing the issue at hand – right now, in the moment. It seems like an obvious [...]
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Unbinding continued
February 13th, 2011 | Expressive Change | Warren | 3 Comments
Tana’s recent post on “unbinding” reminded me of some reflections I had made in a paper I wrote a few years ago. In a section that was actually called “The Unbinding,” I was thinking about how difficult it can be to recognize exactly what it is that binds us. For someone like Tana (disciplined, orderly, [...]
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