The Art, thoughts, and philosophy of working better together.
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George post op
There’s something that really opened me up seeing my dad in such a vulnerable situation. He, like many of our parents I suspect, obscures his feelings and emotional state. For dad it is through his silliness and sarcasm. To see him perfectly exposed to see him on the edge of life, within the grasp of…
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Pinecone Tattoo Timelaps
Things I use Three step process
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Mini Zine Tutorial
From A Mini Meta Guide to Making Pocket Sized Zines: A pocket sized guide This is a little Zine I made after Emily from Betterish taught me how. Get Paper Here’s the printable version. You can simply print this out on any printer, just make sure to NOT scale it down so everything lines up.
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Conversations about Shared Ground
I sat down with Keyna, Kheya, and Koko to talk about Shared Ground, what to do with churches, sharing food, and how to walk the earth. You can learn more about Shared Ground on our website
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Taming Your To-Do List
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Black and White Film 2021
Photos I took on a Nikon film camera in 2021
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The Hanged Man
I was 14 when the towers fell, when the world turned upside down. I’ve learned everything of significance within that time. I’ve had to suspend myself a great many times since then.
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Naveed Reads Me Allegiance to Gratitude
Naveed reading Allegiance to Gratitude from Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Power Over Can’t Be Hidden
No matter how flat the power structure, no matter how democratic a group claims to be, if there is someone in the group who can at any moment pick up the phone and have armed police come and veto any decision made by the collective, there is a tricky power dynamic.
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Polarity Group Exercise
how do you hold multiple divergent perspectives without needing to collapse them down to unity?
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Safety, Care Labor, and Work Styles in Decentralised Orgs
A look at building safety, valuing care work, and helping teams develop a growth mindset.
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Reflection 1: Patterns for Decentralised Organizations
I’m taking a guided program with The Hum called Patterns for Decentralised Organizations. It is taught by Nati and Rich, geniuses I’ve been following and crossing paths with for some time. I’ll be keeping notes and reflections as I go along on this tag. We started out as most online zoom course things do by…
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Guide to Editing Action Forms in Action Network
Use Action Network to create custom fields for your Action forms.
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Eight Minutes and Forty Six Seconds
It should wake you up. It should wake you up. It should wake you up. It should wake you up.
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Self Portrait 2019
Becoming is a lifelong process, in this post I describe the story of how this self portrait, a snapshot of that process, came into being over 6 years.
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Rocky Mountain Pod Project Branding and Web Design
The journey taken to create a brand logo and website for the Rocky Mountain Pod Project. A group fostering small intimate groups around mutual aid in the Rocky Mountain region.
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Transforming Conflict with a Culture Committee
Conflict will arise in groups, what we do with that conflict can be the difference between falling apart or becoming stronger. In this post I outline a simple conflict transformation process you can implement and dive into putting together a Culture Committee to address conflicts within a group.
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Community Rule Tool Defines Group Structure
Media Enterprise Design Lab released a tool called Community Rule to help groups define the structure of their group.
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Reflections on Distributed Care in Organizations
I recently attended a online class put on by The Hum around care support in organizations. Care labor is an often unseen and unaccounted form of labor within teams. As Rich said “the snacks don’t just appear out of thin air at a meeting” someone takes the time to care to put them there. How…
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