Social-Ecological Netweaver Dialogues
In 2018 we recruited a core group of experienced transformative netweavers who were eager to enhance their network’s transformative potential. We convened eight 90-minute guided conversations to share ideas about how to design, create and facilitate transformative learning networks.
How do netweavers design, build and maintain the enabling conditions for systems change? A core group of 5 netweavers explored this question between 2018-2020 in twelve guided dialogues. Below are:
Graphic facilitation of these sessions, coupled with the theme and main question of each dialogue.
Profiles of the 5 netweavers
A description of the collection of 5 articles that came out of the dialogues that were published in the Social Innovations Journal in 2020
Capacity Building: What does it mean for a network to develop transformative capacity, and how can we manage for it?
Sweat the Small Stuff: What happens in between a networks' "big events"? How can we facilitate continued interaction that supports transformative systems change?
Co-Work: We bring together people from different communities and organizations for intensive opportunities to plan, act, reflect, and learn.
Life Cycles: How we manage for network growth, maturity, and decline/cessation/rebirth in ways that contribute to transformative capacity building?
Scaling Up: How do our networks promote transformative change beyond the single landscape?
Culture: How can netweavers facilitate interaction among network members so as to develop a shared culture that fosters out networks transformative potential?
Transformative Change Stories: Crafting them, sharing them, reflecting on how they are useful.
Our Fellows
We invited 5 of the world’s most experienced and innovative netweavers to be partners on this project
This work is captured in a new set of articles in the Social Innovations Journal, an online journal for practitioners. The first five articles of this special issue examine how netweavers can build and maintain the enabling conditions for productivity, commitment, creativity, and purpose in a time of disruption. These papers emerged from a three-year partnership with some of the world’s most highly experienced and effective netweavers. The core of these articles are the words of the netweavers themselves, organized and accompanied with enough commentary to make them coherent and cohesive.
Funding
This work is funded, in part, through the Network of STEM Education Centers under Grant No. 1524832 from the National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.