Collective Impact Agency

Sometimes making a collective impact means being lost in the woods together. Sometimes making a collective impact means building a new space, a new house. Sometimes making a collective impact means exploring despite the risks. Sometimes making a collective impact means watching your facilitator, the so called 'expert' in the room, die to 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑠 ("Well... I lead by example...") Sometimes play is the most important thing you can do together... “The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct.” -Carl Jung (Picture shows a christmas card with a photo in the middle that is a screenshot of Lara, Abby and Andy playing a video game as three characters holding flaming torches in the dark).

It may be the Christmas party to end all Christmas parties... The fellowship of the disco deer...

What is the real cost of the focus on 'keeping a stiff upper lip' for our male colleagues and leaders? We 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 to talk more about this: https://lnkd.in/eMjbjp6b

"Community gives you the hope to try again." The funny thing about learning about learning (try saying that three times fast) is that the experience can be surprisingly meta - we sometimes end up learning and experiencing 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 on learning. It's a mad ole world (and a beautiful one), but we hope you'll enjoy this part of the journey with us, through Andy's reflections: https://lnkd.in/emvB92JC

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us for our intro to inner work for systems change webinar yesterday! It was a truly a morning with *immaculate vibes*! We will be taking some time digest everything, responding to those who have emailed us, and reaching out to everyone shortly with details from the day and future information. Until then, we hope your technology is kinder to you than it was to Abby 😉!

I'm not sure we realised, when we decided to host this webinar again, what it would mean to be hosting it at this point in time... But boy, are we glad we this is happening next week - talk about synchronicity! Please do pop by and join us - let's talk change 🕊️

We've had such an incredible experience with this session so far this year, it's really bought home to us just how many folks need to have this discussion - so we're running it one last time for those of you who have missed out! Please do sign up or pass this on to other curious minds! We look forward to meeting you in November!

🫛We've just dropped a beancast! 🫛 (No, no, it's okay, we know how it sounds, but you can put the cleaning supplies away...) We've created the first in what we hope to be an ongoing series of 'mini' podcasts - short, fresh, discussions exploring our ideas in bite-sized chunks. Our first one contains the lovely Abby telling her story of hiring Lara and the surprises she encountered along the way... Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/eTgJftuW

"Learning is change." ...and, despite all the learning about learning we do, the raw vulnerability of it still takes us by surprise, often at the times we least suspect it... Here Andy's heart-led reflections capture this sense of change and growth as they happen. We hope that sharing them with you will, in turn, give you some hope for your own, messy-feeling, learning journeys (because, yes, sometimes the night *is* dark and full of terrors and you really do 'know nothing, Jon Snow') 😉. https://lnkd.in/enmMFebJ

When you put decision making into the hands of the community, wonderful things happen. When we started facilitating the Gateshead community bridge builders we had no idea where they would take things - but they have made magic (and here is once slice of that magic)! Huge congratulations to Paul and all the team of local deaf creatives that came together to make this festival happen, not long to go now! https://lnkd.in/eBTg2BQb