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 (1 hour) 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 systems

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

Reinventing Organisations: 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.

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 & 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

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

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 (book)

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: transitionnetwork.org/do-transition/inner-transition/

Organising Cultures of Resilience: Activism in the Anthropocene, Kevin Buckland

coming soon…